The best restaurants serving French food in South East

Nicest food I've had in any London restaurant for a very long time. Really lovely owners who also are servers. Fantastic 😍 thank you!

Lovely food at reasonable prices. So easy to get to by train as its located just outside Eastbourne station. A regular here thanks

Highly recommend the Christmas menu, the food was served hot and delicious. The service was so friendly and welcoming. I canalso recommend the breakfast menu which was great

We turned up today on a wet and windy day. They bent over backwards to serve us. Then when we asked for the best taxi service locally they informed us just how difficult it would be. Within seconds they offered us a ride back to our campsite. Can’t recommend enough

Original review below from 2017, sadly as of Nov 2023 now seems to be closed. Facebook showed closure as of July but hours not updated. Wasn't open on a Saturday afternoon/evening when we visited. Fantastic hospitality, great beers. need to come back to try the food!

Just lots of people are rude entitled so and sos and should really stay at home because they don't know how to behave or be have an ounce of respect

Went for an afternoon tea. Not great. Dry bread sandwiches were a grave disappointment. Everything else was OK but the dinning room was cold and lacking any ambience/ fire / music. Bar staff on mobile phone loud speaker. Staff unattentive yet a tip is automatically added to your bill. Disappointing.

Very yummy Macaroons and cakes.

Magnificent little café with garden where we had breakfast during our getaway to Canterbury Everything is perfect, French breads and pastries. The staff is very pleasant and attentive. Thank you for this moment of happiness to start the day off right. We recommend this place. Go ahead and enjoy.

Popped in for a lovely cold pint of Hawkstone,lovely place

We had a great meal, the best one we’ve had here so far. There were lots of seafood dishes on the specials board, today, which hit the spot for us! The crab linguine with chilli and samphire was creamy and full of crab. The mussels were in a lovely sauce too. We were too full for dessert, but they looked great on other tables. The coffee was amazing. Our servers were charming and attentive, keen to make sure we enjoyed our meal. We’d intended to try out the new restaurant at the top of the street, and were a bit disappointed to find we should have booked. However, we were really lucky to be able to squeeze in at La Maison. We really recommend it.

L'Ortolan was formerly a really fabulous place in a lovely setting. Sadly it is now closed and will probably be sold. On our last few visits it was looking very tired and in need of some investment and maintenance work on the building and decor. Very sadly the whole experience has gradually gone down hill, the food was still pretty good, some of the staff were excellent but the real attention to detail and the feeling of being exquisitely looked after had gone. It's obviously been fading away slowly over the years but we have some very happy memories of it in the past. Sad to see it go.

Lively locaton but setting of the tables is a big let down. I hate looking at people eating while sharing the experience with other person I want to talk to while eating. Unfortunately I don’t feel comfortable turning my head 45 degrees each time I communicate with someone. Also, staff did look quite a lot at us while eating which made eating quite unpleasant. Food wise, nice food. Unfortunately salmon and lamb overcooked. Sweetbreads didn’t find it particularly tasty. I wouldn’t go back based on the price unfortunately.

We thoroughly enjoyed our experience in this lovely restaurant, food was excellent & staff very attentive, husband & I both enjoyed our fillet steaks & rhubarb Bakewell tart was to die for, cannot wait to go back

Amazing!! The food was delicious and the service was great!! Recommended✅✅