Five stars on the price/quality scale. Granville lives off tourism, as reflected by the usual…read morestrip of same-same restaurants with virtually the same menus at the same price. La Citadelle is a cut above : clean, friendly, popular, oysters and other standards a bit pricier but quality way above the norm, a number of non-usual choices. After a couple nice, on the house amuse bouches, two of us shared a dozen oysters, and two bowls of rich, velvety rockfish soup made even better with croutons, grated cheese and a great mashed potato/ horseradish rouille. House white: a 50 cl pichet of Viognier, quite good at 13 euros. We left, quite filled and only 55 euros poorer.

The food in La Citadelle is great. The menus are creative and have a good price point. The only…read moresignificant issue with this restaurant is the FRONT OF HOUSE. It is a shame that a restaurant that (according to TripAdvisor and Yelp) is standing out lacks in a proper front of house management. I had the feeling that all waitresses including the hostess are 16 year old brats wearing (way too) short black skirts and trying to earn some money during their summer break from school. Far from a professional service experience. They were chatting and (I guess) gossiping whenever they were waiting for food coming out of the kitchen ... the service just lacked a professional management. It is a shame when that happens to a restaurant with a good chef. It once again shows that a great Back of House isn't everything, or in other words that a bad Front of House can ruin the entire dining experience.

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The food strikes me as cruise ship food. When asking to get the burger sauce on the side, the reply…read morewas "sorry we precook before order all of our food, no special requests." A.K.A., cruise ship production. Food also comes out within 5 minutes which doesn't bode well for this restaurant.

Quelle déception et quelle arrogance. Nous avons pris la…read morepeine d'appeler pour savoir s'ils avaient des options végétariennes. La personne au téléphone nous annonce une entrée et un plat. Au vu des bons commentaires on y va. Résultat : aucune entrée possible pour nous et le plat avait la taille et la consistance d'une entrée. Et en plus on nous a fait nous sentir mal de demander du pain. Nous sommes reparties affamées, mon enfant de deux ans également. Et aucun geste commercial au paiement. 32€ pour des estomacs vides.