La Caillebotte - Saintes

Style and excellent food. Visited here mid September 2022 and had a gorgeous meal of oysters, lamb and prune au crumble accompanied by a Grimbergen beer with a lovely Mourvèdre red wine. Good value for the beautiful style and food

We were looking fwd to trying the food from this place. Unfortunately they just had table inside. My wife got in but I realised that the small space and the delicate furniture could have triggered potential damages from our 2 years old daughter. We decided to discuss it outside and I tried to explain it to the owner (or manager . In the meantime I simply asked an information to the restaurant next to it. We finally decided to give it a try, so we entered and tried to sort the tables keeping glasses and knives away from our daughter .... and suddenly the manager shouted VAI VIA! (GO AWAY! . Realising that I was italian he opted to embarass me in my own language. And continued Go to the next restaurant! pushing me. I tried to explain that there was no reason to freak like that, but he continued (despite my daughter started crying . The guests seemed pretty embarrassed by that sad show. The food looks good. And the location is nice. I just feel sorry for the whole team working hard under a man obsessed with his pride that ruins the reputation of the restaurant and of his Country.

The Commercial Hotel is clearly where the locals frequent Everything else in the town was closed including the IGA and liquor store on 6 p.m

Lunchtime meal was a bit disappointing. First course of cold tomatoe soup ( tasted like tinned soup) with a few cold mussels floating in it. Main course was an unexceptional Thai curry. Gave up after that and didn't have a dessert. The hosting was excellent and setting was very nice but let down by bland and unimaginative food.

The place is nice and the food is great. Presentation was fantastic. The host was very nice and made sure that we enjoyed the food. The chef came to talk to us and tell us about his food selection. We had the liver pate to start and the duck a l'orange, this was the best I had in France. The desert was a Lavender ice cream. Very exotic.