The French tend to eat quite early in restaurants, around mid-day for lunch, and usually start their evening meal between 7 and 9 pm. French meals can be quite lengthy affairs, particularly If you have a fruits de mer (sea food platter). The French love to chat during meals and, especially if there are a lot of courses, will happily be eating for the whole afternoon, or late into the evening. However, the arrival of the menu in a restaurant is a time for silent contemplation followed by serious discussion before a choice can be made. This would account for the popularity of the apéritif in France! You will usualy be asked if you would like an apéritif, and will normally be served with nibbles.
French restaurants have to, by law, post their menus outside the entrance so that you can look at the choices and check the prices before you enter.
Most restaurants, will normally offer a choice of set price menus which are usualy very good value for money, and you will know excactly what you are getting and what it will be costing. Also
if you are eating from a set menu, you are not expected to tip, the tip is already included in the price. If you are choosing from an à la carte menu, then tipping is expected (10%).
Wait to be shown to your table, even if the place is empty, as it is considered bad manners to walk in and get a table yourself.
A French meal normally begins with an
apéritif while you order from the menu. The hors d'oeuvre are the starters, followed by
les plats the main course. This will then be followed by the cheese course les fromages (which is served before the sweet in France). And then les desserts the sweet. A meal would then finish with coffee and perhaps a digestif.
Restaurants in La Roche Bernard
Les Copains d'à Bord - quai Saint Antoine (a moored boat!)
Le Borsalino - quai des Douanes
02 99 90 87 42
Restaurant du Vieux Quartier - 8, place Bouffay
02 99 90 61 19
Le Relais de la Roche - Le Pont du Morbihan
02 99 90 60 69
Pizzéria Solenza - Le Pont du Morbihan
02 99 90 83 22
La Sarrasine - 1, place Marchix
02 99 90 77 44
Restaurants in Nivillac
Les Milles Pates -
3, place Saint-Pierre - Nivillac 02 99 90 87 81
Restaurant Grand Pierre -
Bodeuc - Nivillac 02 99 90 89 63
Auberge du Grand Baud - lotissement du Grand Baud, Nivillac
