I am just making an observation here. This dining experience is something everyone needs to do at…read moreleast once in their lifetime. Almost a kick the bucket list thing! The Les Grands Buffet tonight was in the top three of buffets in the world I have been fortunate to visit, as far as the high quality and flair goes. The Nikko Hotel in Vietnam and The Colony in Singapore are right up there with Les Grands. The wait staff are just amazing and super attentive. I cannot say enough about the food taste of the main courses and freshness of the seafood. The cheese selections (over 100 varieties) and the numerous gourmet desserts were insanely good. There are some great videos online that showcase the excellence of this restaurant. Overall, get a closeby hotel and go work out at nearby gym when visiting Les Grands buffet in Narbonne!

If you have ANY dietary restrictions, don't bother coming here, period, the end…read more My husband and I had been trying since August 2025 to get a reservation for 2 at Les Grands Buffet and after checking weekly and running into constant issues on their booking site, we finally snagged a Christmas Day booking for 8 PM. We rented a car and booked a hotel room and drove from Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain on Christmas Day just to eat here. We had seen the reviews online from people like Wolter's World and Mark Wiens on YouTube. We were excited to try this supposedly gigantic, fancy buffet in the South of France. Their website mentioned that they had options for dietary restrictions. We prepaid our meal when booking but drinks are not included, not even water. Whatever, European restaurants are annoying in that aspect. We arrived at the restaurant and found out it's attached to a bowling alley. We had to walk through some sort of disinfectant mister and then head inside. The person who walked us to our table spoke English and showed us to our seat. The seats were crammed together to the point a built in planter box was taking up half of my seat at the table. I had to sit with my chair at an angle to avoid being poked by the sharp corner of the planter. Despite seeing French speakers being given a tour, I was not. This has never happened at any high end buffet that I've visited, and I've been to them all as I live in Las Vegas. A chef has always come out and pointed out what I could and couldn't eat when I told the staff that I had celiac disease. I don't even need them to speak English. I understand pointing and "oui / non." I was handed an allergen binder and found out that ALL of the hot main dishes contained gluten. All of them. The only hot main dish I could have was a slice of beef with no sauce - even the mustard contained gluten. I carried the allergen binder into the appetizer section and had to look at the name of each item and see if I could find it in the binder (which is stressful) and only then choose the item. A staff member saw that I looked confused / stressed and told me in English that I could have all of these cheeses except 2 that she pointed to. She then asked me to take a photo of the allergen binder on my phone to look at while going through the buffet so that they could have the binder back. How about pointing out what I CAN eat so that I'm not having to stand around trying to figure it out? I was given a basket of sliced sandwich loaf as my gluten-free bread. Buffet is mostly cheese, cured meats and cold seafood. There really aren't even that many options, even if you have no medical dietary restrictions. Every Vegas resort buffet is larger than this one. It was such a disappointment. The dessert buffet has an ice cream station and at a certain time they stop serving desserts from a case. I pointed to the mini souffle in the case (to give to my husband because the lines were so long.) I was told that they're not longer serving it because it was too late, despite it being more than 15 minutes before the cutoff time. Service was horrible. I got a half lobster and our waitress never brought me a claw cracker after saying that she would. Plates piled up on our already cramped table. The cost of water was never told to us so we didn't want to order something without knowing the cost. It ended up only being a few euros which we paid for at the end of the meal. Unless you're planning to eat nothing but cheese, Spanish cured pork and some boiled seafood, don't bother if you can't eat gluten. My husband who had no dietary restrictions said that he didn't even like the hot dishes that he tried and that the meats tasted gamey. Visited: December 2025

Wowww cheese. This was an unexpected dinner surprise for us, we had planned to dine elsewhere and…read moreshop for some cheese to bring home. However, the owner Philip, welcomed us and sat us down at his bar and we began to drink delicious wine. And then we had delicious cheese, a plate of 10 with ever increasing strength of flavor and smell. By the time we had left we we completely full of both and very happy to have met new friends at the establishment. BTW they have many charcuterie options and even do catering. (Think duck breast avec fois gras. Petite terrines of delicious meat. Will return if ever we have a chance. Very nice guy and so are his clients.

Le Comptoir des Tontons (the "uncle's bar", but in this case using the kiddie word for "Uncle"-- we…read moredon't have a good word for it, but it might be the male equivalent of "auntie")--- Wow! I can't believe we found this little gem in La Palme!! My family and I have gone here 2 nights in a row since it was so unbelievable-- literally some of the best food I have EVER eaten. (And I have eaten at some highly rated New York City and Chicago restaurants) Basically just good, REAL French food. The appetizer of mussels was divine, melt-in-your mouth garlicky, buttery heaven. Great wines by the 50cl or 75cl (half carafe/bottle?). Delicious duck breast, yummy filet of beef, and perfectly amazing cod (again, buttery, garlicky heaven on a plate!) The shrimp and scallop "duo" was simple but of the best , freshest quality, with just a flavor that showcased the seafood itself, but delicious! I've never enjoyed shrimp so much, and the scallops practically melted in my mouth. Loved the baked Camembert, and the goat cheese plate! But, the absolute best part... The desserts!!! Molten chocolate lava cake (mi-cuit or "half-cooked") with homemade vanilla ice cream and whipped cream, a sundae that my daughter had to order two nights in a row "Dame Blanche" which was basically a hot fudge sundae served in a glass, but just a hundred times better (the quality of the chocolate, of the ice cream, of the almonds, and even of the whipped cream!) A yummy creme brûlée with orange flower essence. (That I adored, but you have to eat it before the chocolate, or the delicate flavor will be overpowered.) And a Ton Ton's house special "omelette" which is really a big scoop of ice cream over a thin layer of white cake, with an even thinner layer of meringue on top, set afire by a cup of flaming grand marnier poured on top. It was probably my least favorite of the desserts, which isn't saying much since it somehow all got gobbled up along with the chocolate, but it got coolness points for flaming at the table, and we all agreed that we were glad we ordered it. Honestly, everything was such high quality (including the bread, but that goes without saying in France, but also including the vegetables served with the meal, and the salad served alongside the cheese that my girls just INHALED!) that I would happily try anything on their menu. But I dream of the mussels (moules). Note: brush up on your French and/or bring your French phrase book-- not too much english spoken here. And no English menu translations. This is the real thing, not just a Parisian tourist trap. And by the way, for about 1/3 to half the price of what we were paying in Paris for a meal that was not as good! You do need a car to get here from Perpignan or Narbonne, and don't forget they don't rent automatic cars here. I almost hate to rave about La Palme because it is truly an undiscovered gem, but come here, eat and absorb the true French way of life in all it's beauty. Oh, and if you have kids, there's a kids menu for those under 10 which apparently includes a scoop of ice cream served in a (toy) COW! It was so cute that I almost asked for one myself, but then I thought maybe I should act like an adult when in a foreign country. I got the feeling that not too many Americans come here, and boy have we have been missing out!!