French, Seafood restaurants in Europe
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Chez Fuchs
This casual, unpretentious bar-restaurant is a truly authentic family-run affair where noisy, happy Tropeziens hang out. It's notable for the massive range of cigars it sells, and for its carefully prepared traditional dishes: stuffed courgettes, artichokes à la barigoule (traditional Provençal dish of artichokes braised in a tangy white wine broth) and seafood. It positively heaves - book ahead.
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Au Rocher de Cancale
Rue Montorgueil was the oyster market of the old halles, and this timber-lined restaurant opened in 1846 is its legacy. Virtually unchanged since the days of the markets, there's a choice of three plats du jour plus two chef's suggestions, alongside oysters from Cancale, Brittany's foremost oyster port. Everything here, including the wine, is great value.
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Raadhus-Kælderen
One of Roskilde’s best restaurants is this atmospheric spot in the cellar of the old town hall (c 1430). Herring platters, and open sandwiches with smoked venison, beef tartare and smoked eel feature on the lunch menu. At dinner, creative, French-inspired seafood and meat dishes, such as guinea-fowl with rosemary sauce, get an outing. Little for vegetarians.
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Les Flots
You'll feel like you're floating in the water at this place by the Tour de la Chaîne with fabulous port views and sunshine streaming in through timber-framed windows. Another string in chef Grégory Coutanceau's bow (he also has several other restaurants, and a catering sideline), this place is especially renowned for its stylishly presented seafood.
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Restaurant Rossignol
At first sight this small restaurant looks a little starchy, with its crisp white tablecloths and plain wooden chairs, but in fact the atmosphere is closer to a homely ferme auberge (farm stay) than a gourmet restaurant. Local fish, meat and foie gras dominate the menu, and you'll be in for a treat if you're here during truffle season.
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Café Sud
French and Italian-inspired cuisine including all things fishy, a fabulous fish risotto and imaginative vegetarian dishes like veg salad with celery ice cream are the order of the day at this tasteful restaurant set in a vine-covered courtyard. Its other restaurant, La Plage des Jumeaux, offers white tablecloth dining on Pampelonne beach.
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La Calypso
With beamed ceilings, red tablecloths and a cosy open fireplace flickering in the chillier months, this good-natured restaurant is an amiable place to tuck into specialities like sole stuffed with crab, honey-glazed duck, and a delicious bouillabaisse arcachonnaise made from local sea critters.
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Le Bistrot
A few doors down from Le Café, the Bistro offers all-day dining in a contemporary décor overlooking St-Tropez's busy central square. Fish and shellfish are a gastronomic feature, alongside straightforward hole-filling salads and tartines (toast topped with various toppings).
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Les Arcenaulx
Born out of the tumultuous arsenal's history, this cavernous complex contains an antiquarian and contemporary bookshop with a specialist interest in gastronomy, as well as a bookshelves-lined restaurant and salon de thé (tearoom) serving ice creams named after literary classics.
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Morgan's Brasserie
An elegant and intimate spot, with clean modern lines and an air of big-city sophistication, Morgan's turns out quality cuisine with a French touch, including local seafood specials and some gourmet vegetarian choices (how about leek and parsnip steamed pudding with herb and truffle gravy?).
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Le Dôme Bastille
This lovely restaurant, little sister to the more established (and touristy) Dôme in Montparnasse and awash in pale yellows, specialises in superbly prepared fish and seafood dishes. The blackboard menu changes daily. Wines are a uniform €23.90 per bottle.
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Chez Grand Mère
In the old town, this friendly place, characterised by colourful murals, serves French fare including frogs' legs and the like. If you missed out on bouillabaisse in Marseille, this is your chance to make up for it (minimum of two diners; order two days before).
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Bistro Latin
Readers rave about this bistro and with good reason. Engaging and affordable (it's definitely worth booking ahead), Bistro Latin has extensive menu choices spanning cod, scampi risotto and a myriad of meat dishes cooked with saffron, spinach and cream.
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Les Viviers
A magnificent choice of oysters, urchins and other shellfish - not to mention a Breton lobster grilled alive - are consumed to the sweet tinkle of a piano at this seafood temple. Try the Viviers 1900s-styled bistro next door for something less rarefied.
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La Cagouille
Chef Gérard Allemandou, one of the best seafood cooks (and cookery book writers) in Paris, gets rave reviews for his fish and shellfish dishes at this café–restaurant opposite 23 rue de l’Ouest. The menus here are exceptionally good value.
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Speltz
French haute cuisine and seafood served with aplomb are the trademarks of this Luxembourg institution. Just three small rooms - all refined and mellow - and a dozen street-side terrace tables mean you'll need to phone ahead.
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Chez Fonfon
Overlooking the quaint fishing harbour of Vallon des Auffes from an apricot-hued dining room, this third-generation-run peach of a place also specialises in poisson à l'argile (fresh clay-cooked fish, flavoured with aniseed).
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Le Lido
Sit on the buzzing terrace at this bustling no-frills seafood bar and feast on piles of langoustine (small saltwater lobster), oysters, sea urchins, crab and prawns. Finicky eaters can opt for a bog-standard lasagne.
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Festival de la Moule
A couple of touristy places on cours Saleya serve impressive seafood platters, while you can feast on as many moules (mussels) as you can eat at unpretentious, cheerful Festival de la Moule.
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Restaurant Jean Ramet
Go the whole gastronomic hog at this fabulously formal establishment of white tablecloths and sparkling silverware, serving classy French and Bordelaise cuisine and the finest of wines.
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La Rose des Vents
Beach dining at its best. Sit on wooden decking arranged around a century-old palm tree on the sand and enjoy warm baby octopus salad, clams, or the catch of the day simply grilled.
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Le Vivier des Halles
The fish could almost flap their way up the road from the nearby covered market to this place, where the seafood is very reasonably priced and the hot fish soup a special delight.
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Quite Simply French
A little bit of contemporary French cuisine - as well as Lancaster's only lobster tank - has turned this trendy eatery into one of the town's most sought after dining spots.
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Aux Mouettes
Fisherfolk sell their daily catch across the street at the quay - easy to see how this unassuming place manages to serve only the very freshest fish and seafood.
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Le Biniou
With cute little illustrations of biniou, this crêperie/salon de thé has a couple of terrace tables, and a great upstairs mezzanine with velour settees where you can choose from well over a hundred different artisan galettes (savoury crêpes) and crêpes (including the house specialty of caramelised apples flambéed in calvados), or the menu of mussels.
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