La Forêt

C’est LE restaurant à faire dans la région. Ça change de certains attrape-​touristes en bord de mer. La carte est variée et originale, le service est sympathique et soigné. Un conseil, choisissez le dessert le plus léger de la carte!

Très bonne table à meschers. Sûrement l’une des meilleures de la région. Une salle immense mais pas trop bruyante. Un service impeccable. Un menu délicieux à 30 euros. Mention spéciale pour les plateaux de fruits de mer!
Pensez à réserver!!!

Cadre agreable dans une grande salle avec un poele à bois enorme au milieu, accueil et service sympa
Caret tres variee, superbes grillades enormes
Menus à 28 avec entrée, plat, fromage et dessert super copieux, menu à 42
Crêpe au chocolat succulente
Un tres bon rapport qualite prix

Tres bonne cuisine et service. Neanmoins la salle de restaurant est bruyante et il faut lever le ton pour se faire entendre entre convives.

Si vous devez faire un restaurant au alentour de royan, la foret est celui ci. Menu copieux, trés jolies présentations, plats magiques (trilogies de foies gras, soles en rossini), trés bon accueil bref un trés bon restaurant. Un conseil reserver à l’avance. A conseiller vivement!!!

Royan is popular with the Irish, among others, and the Michelin recommended La Foret is not too far out on the east, on the road to Talmont. It is easy to find.
Started, aside from a few small appetisers, with a massive Goats Cheese and Tomato plateful, containing several slices of a tart that had the cheese and tomato, several rings of another cheese at the four corners of the plate, various bits of fruit and crudités and topped with a sail, made up of two rashers on two skewers.
The other starter was also huge, a Carpaccio of various fruits: several slices each of melon, grapefruit, watermelon, pineapple, and grapes, along with a plentiful supply of sorbet. The centre point here was a glass of the local Pineau which you couldn’t really free until you ate most of the fruit.
Main course was Bauvette, a top class beef dish with parsley butter and caramelised onion, served with a few chips. Quite an amount of beat filled the long dish but there was bowl of salad on the side and also more chips. Massive and it went down well.
Then came the cheese course. I forget the first one on offer as we each went for the second which was a white cheese with cream and cognac. Beat that!
Then on to the desserts, all this remember in the EUR26.00 euro menu. Picked the classic Ile Flottante melt in the mouth decadence. The other dessert at the table was a Terraro: a sorbet type combination of very fruity boules of frozen fruit (including blackcurrant, strawberry etc) all surrounded by sliced strawberries.
It was an unbelievable meal at quite a busy restaurant and the price was of house wine (red, white or rose) was, believe it or not, EUR6.00 for a 70 cl carafe.
There are a couple of set menus but the a la carte is huge, opens out like a broadsheet. There is no English version so you could struggle to get though it unless you have very good French. But take a chance. It is worth it!
The cooking, the presentation, the service, the location of La Foret and its ambiance is excellent. But be warned about those huge portions!