Le Pinocchio - Le Bois-Plage-en-Ré

I’m not quite sure what to say. Considering the location is beautiful you might imagine the restaurant would be great. ‘Welcoming’ us at the door was a woman who was so miserable I can’t believe they had given her the job of ‘front of house’ . We were shown our table, she threw the menus down and then proceeded to show other clients the same lack of charm. The other waiters are nice but busy. Maybe they are short staffed. The food is so so. Not great. There are too many options. They should focus on good pizza and pasta. I wish we had read the reviews on here first. Don’t stop here, find a nice restaurant a couple of roads back. This place is trading on location and that’s dangerous.

We were told they opened at 6.30 pm only to be told when returning they don’t open until 7.00 pm in a very rude way. Not nice. Can only imagine how bad service would be.

After an odd situation at l’escale the other day where the waiter seemingly had a complex... i.e ‘you may have money but I’m not going to take it, who’s in charge now’ I was wary of eating in la flotte again!! Went to Pinnochico’s as ate here last year and the ambience was lovely and relaxed. The staff were accommodating and friendly. Food was delicious and we all felt really relaxed. It really was a great antidote... until the waiter asked the French family on the table next to us, in French, if it had been bearable sitting next to the English family?! Kids had been fine, we had been relaxed. In fairness to the French family they blatantly ignored him. In the days of google, trip advisor etc this is so unnecessary. Maybe we wouldn’t have understood him in a different scenario but the sentiment is just the same. It’s toxic and unnecessary. Apart from that was lovely!!

We arrived at 8:30 and we were very welcome. However, the meal was not shipped. the dishes were copied and very well cooked

We stopped our choice because it was a bit the end of the service. They gave us a table for 8. There's a formula of the day. this semi-day wing of the tarragonese rake sauce with cranes of the island of re and caramel cream for 12, 90 euros. only local and fresh product. small things on the map we took a plate of sea fries and a feast. in addition to the menu of the day. others take the meat from the menu to choose from 16.90 very good meat with homemade purée. homemade caramel cream in homemade apple pie or nostalgia faceted jams. brief an excellent time for the ratio of quality correct price. Very nice waitress.