La Ferme de Villeneuve sur Chateau-D'Olonne

Great gourmet restaurant with original and excellent dishes

2 adults and 2 children (12 & 10) - well I say 2 children, one ate off the teenager menu and 1 off the full menu!) The food was amazing and fantastic value for the quality you got! We found it in the Michelin guide and having been there you can see why it is recommended by them. It was our kids 1st visit to a ‘fine dining’ restaurant and it has set the bar very high! Don’t let the fine dining bit put you off it was very relaxed! If we are back in the area we will visit again!

A rather satisfactory first experience, despite the mixed, even negative, reviews we'd read since the change of restaurant manager! The dishes are delicious 😋 and their presentation is meticulous! The setting is very pleasant and calm (despite the children's playground adjacent to the restaurant... admittedly deserted that day 😥!). The young waitress is dynamic, pleasant, cheerful, and knowledgeable about her products! A few points, however, require attention and perhaps improvement: - The glass of white wine ordered at the start of the meal was served to my husband once his starter (octopus) was finished... luckily his next dish was also fish 😮‍💨! - a response from the manager, who I considered inappropriate, to a customer at a neighboring table asking if it was possible to have non-alcoholic wine ("But sir, we're in Les Sables here!"...! - the manager, with her abrupt manner, oversees the entire service with professionalism and a concern for doing things well, sometimes perhaps to the detriment of rules of etiquette (she interrupted several times in the middle of presenting our dishes to give instructions to her young waitress)... However, we had a pleasant time and these few remarks are, for the moment, not a deterrent to our repeating it 🙂!