La Cote de Lumiere - La Tranche-sur-Mer

The Côte de Lumière serves a variety of seafood, meat and local dishes. All dishes commendable. Thierry, the cook, is quite creative when it comes to pages and desserts.

Located a small village a few miles outside the hustle and bustle of La Tranche, this is a welcome change from the tourist coast food. It is a bit back in time and the better for them; the decor is...traditional sea, the food is traditional no-nonsense French with emphasis on seafood (but good steaks are available) and the service is excellent freendly. We stayed at a short break in the area and visited the restaurant once, we were back soon for more! There are very good value set menus for about 20 euros or less, one offers a self-help buffet (mainly seafood) as an appetizer, another offers fabulous mouth the most generous served! Fish main courses were simple and well prepared, puddings traditional. Wines are cheap and we were very happy with the house white. In any case it is worth a detour from the tourist path.

Had a really lovely evening at La Cote de Lumiere. Service was very good and the food was great. You can either order individual dishes or there are three different priced set menus. I ordered from the 25 euro menu and had Languistine and scallops...with salad for starter followed by Cunard for main. The Cunard was served with green beans and noisette potato with a lovely sauce over it. For pudding i was torn between the creme brulee or the chocolate cake. I decided on the chocolate cake though and so glad i did as it was so nice. It was served with cream and some custard thinly coating the plate with chocolate sauce decoration all done very pretty. A lovely evening and for four of us eating three courses and two bottles of wine it came to around 115 euroes.

We want to this restaurant with a few friends as we wanted to experience a typical French restaurant. I think we achieved that, even down to dogs being allowed in the dining room out Yorkshire terrier would have lived it! This isn 't a problem...for me but may be for some people. The restaurant offers an English menu, but the translation was a little random, also the staff didn 't seem to understand the English menu. Fortunately we had a fluent French speaker in our party so this wasn 't a problem, and as we were the only English in the place I guess it isn 't a priority for them. We all had the set 'village ' menu for 25€. I had modules for a started which were tasty and a very large portion, followed by the scallop casserole. This was a bit of a let down, compared to the starter the portion was small and the scallops hard to find (bothe tiny and few and far between), the sauce was also rather salty for my taste. The food was well presented, and the baby tomato with the poppy seed hat was a conversation piece. The staff were friendly and made us feel welcome, which we haven 't always found to be the case in French restaurants for the French. Overall we had a nice evening, let down sligty by some aspects of the food.

I have been going here for years with my family as my grandparents have a house in la terriere I have never had a bad meal and neither have any of my family the menu doesn't change much but it is always a nice meal....The only thing I would say is last year I had the canard (duck which I have had before and they have changed it slightly and they have taken away the sauce that used to be on it... Please bring back the sauce from Mr Raymonds granddaughter :