We sat outside on their large terrace, covered with a tent just in case Mother Nature decided to rain on more of our vacation. My boyfriend chose duck magret in a creme de cassis sauce, while I had sliced chicken in tarragon sauce. Our first courses were solid starters, my boyfriend had a seafood salad and I had a warm goat cheese salad. Both main courses were very good, the cassis sauce tangy with just the right sweetness, the tarragon sauce thick but not too creamy. They each came with excellent thin crispy french fries, though the vegetables were limp and looked like they had seen better days. The desserts were very good, I had a pastry puff ball with vanilla ice cream smothered in chocolate sauce, truly decadent! We found the wine list a bit pricey compared to similar restaurants we had eaten at in other regions, $20-40 a bottle compared to $10-15; perhaps in Bordeaux they believe their superior wine must have superior prices? We ordered a pitcher (1 litre) of their house red and it was okay, definitely not as good as the wine we had tasted earlier that day on our wine tour.

This restaurant is a good choice if you are staying at a hotel in the city center or are exploring Vieux Bordeaux. Many tourists come to eat on this square so you won’t have a problem ordering in English; even though we ordered our meal in French, when the waitress heard us speak to ourselves in English she began to speak English. As well as the Place du Parlement there are many restaurants on the streets running off the square, some with menus more experimental then that of standard French fare.