Brasserie Toche - Bandol

Incredibly rude and discriminatory. when they eat in this restaurant, best to be French. and white. spend their € elsewhere.

I brought my mother here to eat bandol. worse than disappointed. her risotto aux legumes was a lukewarm green porridge with some boiled vegetables above. my sea roast, rather maciert, than to fill the table, was bland and overcooked, served with. some cooked vegetables and a beautiful estragons sauce. it took 40 minutes to come and when I was complaining, it was said that "It is complicated to cook a fish. it takes time” the restaurant had a beautiful design makeover a few years ago, but unfortunately the food has not changed since the 60s.

This place looks so lovely and could be with some attention to detail. We started off with 2 coupe de Champagne, the bottles was already open and it was completely flat. Sadly we were too polite to complain. We ordered cod with aioli and sole....The food was fine but luke warm at best. We shared a crepe suzette for dessert for a bit of theatre. The pan came out full of a liquid to which she added 2 precooked pancakes then walked off. Later a chef came added the booze lit it up then served it. It wasn’t great maybe needed some butter. All in all €130 on a mediocre meal not recommended as it was in my book the Rough Guide to Provence.

Horrible!! We had to ask for the menu after 30 min when nobody came! 45 min of wait at our table just to be able to ask for drinks! Just for them to tell us our dish was not available.

I took my wife and our young son for lunch yesterday at the Auberge du Port in the hope rather than expectation that the poor service that we had experienced during a visit last month would prove to be have been an exception and not...the rule. Although this restaurant was once the eatery of choice for the great and good of the region, as well as for better healed tourists, it has recently struggled to maintain its hard earned reputation its current success is arguably more as a result of its prominent position on the port than of the food on offer or how it is served. Nevertheless, the sun was shining and, happily installed at our table after a warm and friendly welcome by the Maître D, we were totally unprepared for the disaster that was to follow. After a half hour wait before receiving a menu, another twenty minutes to be given our drinks, we were not offered tapenade and croutons, water or bread, as would have been customary. A steak that was ordered medium rare, arrived almost blue and then came back well done, after I complained. It was then replaced with what can only be described as a “minute steak”, when I asked for the order to be redone. OK, so these things can happen during a busy service but what was unforgivable was the response of the Maître D, who was extremely rude and failed to see any reason why we should not have been entirely satisfied. As I pointed out to her, we all have a choice on where we spend our money and it will certainly not be here until I have heard that things have significantly improved.