Restaurant at Auberge de la Dune

Mr Hero can save anyones taste buds with its delicious options! I loved eating here from time to time.

Back home in Cleveland for the weekend and there aren't any MrHero's where I live nowSo, I had to have a Romanburger before we went back.

A very nice location with great countryside views, very conveniently located on the way to and from the Parc de Marquenterre bird sanctuary. Nice, small countryside building well kept and restored (but for stains on the inside wall, which make the place look dirtier than it likely is). Even the background music is less intrusive than in most restaurants we tried in the area, which is welcome. We could eat there at 3 PM, which is extremely convenient and well out of standard restaurant serving times, much appreciated. The lowest price menu, at 19 Euro, was good value for money as we were little hungry and would have dinner soon, still were happy to try some near-local food, simple and still a bit more sophisticated than bistro/pub/fast food. We had a nice terrine de campagne as one of the starters and pleasant fish in a creamy sauce with vegetables and salicornes (local seaweed) as the main course. The menu suggested the sauce for the fish was made from mussels, shrimps and salicornes again. This is perfectly possible, provided salicornes were much less than required to give a green hue to the otherwise light yellow sauce, and mussels and shrimps have no taste. Might as well have called it a cream sauce and leave it at that. The one silly, pointless surprise was in the second starter. A shrimp salad (salade de crevettes) included surimi. This is a processed food I consider completely free from gastronomic value and best left out of any recipe as it adds no value and takes away some. Why would any restaurant, however low cost and simple, add something that detracts from the flavor and quality of its dishes? And this is clearly a bit more sophisticated than that.

Quite average in everything: food, service, atmosphere and price. There for sure are better places around in that area. But have to say: we were a group of almost 20 people and they managed us well.

We went on Sunday lunch, and they were very busy, so was a bit slow. But our list of complaints:Wrong sauce served with steaks. Waiter advised that this is the sauce today, but the menu states different, and not advised at ordering.Over cooked steak. (Very reluctantly they recooked another)Tough steakCould not wait any longer, we'd been in restaurant 3 hours, so paid & left before deserts. But biggest complaint is no-one of any authority seem to care that we were upset, and wanted to walk out. Will never return.