Auberge du moulin a souffre

We had read the reviews and were prepared to overlook the mediocre ones. We ordered a pichet of vin de pays rosé, which was very good and studied the menu. We both ate from the €26 Menu Plaisir, ordering the salade du Moulin and the salade de chêvre chaud to start. The salade de chêvre was an indication that this was not going to be a gourmet experience, with what looked like supermarket breaded chêvre portions served on sliced of toasted pan bread, albeit with plentiful bagged salad leaves and some tomato. The salade du moulin was no better. Our main courses, the mixed grill and bavettes à l'echalottes, were a little better. The meat was cooked as requested and accompanied with roasted tomato and potato, but also by green beans which were either frozen, tinned or simply overcooked - it was impossible to tell! However, there was promise in the dessert selection and we both opted for the crême brullée, our favourite choice. In fact, I had already composed a title for this review - "Saved by the crême brûlée". I'm sorry to report that this was the worst, absolutely the worst, crême brûlée I have ever tasted. It had a strange taste of detergent and had a nasty, cloying texture. Inedible! Enough said. If my French had been up to explaining my displeasure, I would have said so. However, it was not, so we paid up and left, never to return! There are so many excellent restaurants in the Rivesaltes area and at similar prices it would be a shame to waste your money on this one.

25 Euros for albeit a very big salad which actually tasted of nothing much and was dominated by gargantuan quantities of lettuce .Next overcooked lamb, sloppy pommes Dauphinoise and finally nasty chocolate something .Very poor value for money