Alès Alès

Alès, una città nel sud della Francia, è conosciuta per i suoi mercati vivaci, i paesaggi verdi e la cucina tradizionale, come la 'brandade de morue', un piatto cremoso di baccalà e patate.

Le Ricochet

Le Ricochet

12 boulevard Louis Blanc, 30100 Ales, France, Alès

Thé • Glace • Indien • Salade


"The restaurant looked full of happy diners always a good sign, so we were expecting a reasonable lunch. Maybe we arrived too late (12.45), maybe the chef was having an off day, maybe dealing with a couple of large groups proved too much for the kitchen, maybe we should have avoided the basic 3 course lunch for 15 Euro who knows, but for all the good trip adviser reviews, the lunch was disappointing. It started off well, with a salad for starter, either with goats cheese or quiche, although I 'm not convinced that slices of passion fruit and orange actually added much to it. Then the 2 large groups decided to leave and each individual paid separately. This took up the attention of the 2 people serving for a considerable time, and our second course appeared to have been forgotten. When it did arrive, the beef brochette, which actually was a tender piece of meat and tasty was served with burnt cubes of fried potato and a 'gloup ' of courgette. After this we gave up the will to live and just had ice cream as the dessert. I have now had so many poor experiences of eating in (basic) restaurants in France, that I 'm not going to bother anymore. I would rather go and get a decent bit of bread in the boulangerie and some pate in the boucherie than suffer the offerings of another poor restaurant meal. Long gone are the days when you could go in to an unassuming restaurant with formica tables and be served the quality of food that Elizabeth David described. Next time I think I will try the sushi chains that now seem to be opening over France."

Le Riche

Le Riche

42 Place Pierre Semard, 30100 Ales, France, Alès

Thé • Salade • Français • Desserts


"After i hear loads of good things about that place ! I took a trip in this small town in the south of France. The restaurant is really pleasant nice decors and beautifully dress table. We start our tasting menu with two pre starters a black garlic espuma and a foie gras creme brulé. Which were delicious and promessing for the meal to follow. We choose from the menu three differents starters. One foie gras one courgette flower stuffed with langostine and a red snapper . The presentation was really beautiful but i was surprise to see that the garnish were almost the same on two dishes peas and broad beans for foie fras and the flower. So if you do not like those instead of having three others choices you will have two. And the same cooking technique for the fish like a mousseline for the snapper and the langostine. Which show not a lot of creativity after all. The main were still pretty but big deception at the table for the Lamb more fat that meat and again same garnish for everyone . A potato finely rolled and roasted. The texture of the potato was not even nice really floury ... The beef annonced a asparagus panna cotta and we end up with an aubergine croquette. While we were eating the chef appears at our table and say : C'est bon hein! it is good dough! and left without giving us a chance to complain about the wrong garnish or the false garnish on their menu. The chef shows a great confidence .... We had some cheese to follow here nothing to say high quality cheese nice bread to go with! And here come the desserts what should be the apogy of every meal , unfornutatly it was a big desappointement for each dessert choosen and so for each of us. A chocolate liegois with a really grainy mousse like the milk where off very unpleasant did not dare to go further... A strawberry and coriander the fresh strawberry were tasteless which is surprising in full seasons in south of france i bought some into the market on the morning they were amazing a gel and a pannacotta with so much gelatine into it was not nice to taste and for the coriander nothing else that micro herbs so another big let down i did not enjoy so i did not eat it. Like a baba again very pretty but absoluetly tasteless the baba was quasi inexistant not taste of rum so dry and a disc of gelatine flavor with pineapple this one has not been touch either. No one wonder why we send our plates full to the kitchen. The chefs were gone and so the manager... left with us the sommelier who was really nice and knowlegable. The wine list is good with little vine from this region . Overated over all! Very expensive for what you get . A big let down for the table not a place to remember!"