ラ クール ドゥ レミ

BLUF - A superb experience. You will need a car (and a good map/sat nav) to get there, but it is not hard to find. Parking is spacious and off road. The hotel/restaurant is in a lovely rural setting, and very quiet. Reception was welcoming and efficient. We were in one of the downstairs rooms facing into the courtyard, which was very spacious, well appointed, with an excellent bathroom. The is a very short (20m) walk to the restaurant. Dinner in the restaurant was superb, with an imaginative menu, and a good wine list (with a range of prices). Breakfast similarly is excellent. Will return!

One of the best meals I have had in years! Service is impeccable, rooms comfortable and spacious….but the food! I had the pork belly and my friend had the duck which was excellent. But the pork was on a different level. Would recommend making a detour for this hidden gem.

First the good stuff. Room lovely and clean. Staff very professional and nice people. Bed comfortable and free parking. A great place for a stopover for bed and breakfast. For us though I am afraid both the room and the restaurant were disappointing. The room was quite bare, with just plain whitewashed walls. No pictures. No comfortable seating in the room. The bathroom did not have a shower, only an attachment which had to be pulled up from the bath. The bath had high sides so it would have been difficult for a child, or a less mobile adult to use. The breakfast was perfectly fine. We found the food in the restaurant in the evening a bit problematic. Perhaps it wouldn’t have mattered so much if we hadn’t chosen to stay here because it was advertised as a gourmet experience. The pork belly was undercooked with a chewy rind and what seemed to be undercooked fat. I literally couldn’t swallow it even after chewing. Pork belly is not something you can get away with undercooking. The cod was nicely cooked but bland. Cod is a good fish but always needs something with it to make it special and this fish didn’t have it. My crème brûlée did not have a crackly surface and the egg mixture was slightly going towards scrambled in my view. I think it would have been helped by some vanilla. The tarte Normande was a bit on the dry side. The hotel is in an isolated location with no village shops nearby as far as we could see. This means that you are reliant on the hotel facilities but there were no communal areas except for a bar area next to the restaurant. We saw no French families eating there although there were quite a few UK clients (it’s a short drive to Calais - an hour and 10 minutes).