Les Voutes - Mende

Beautiful place in a very old building, dinning room is in a cave. the staff is very friendly and the food is good in taste and quantity.

If this restaurant is only on the 14th place of 31 restaurants in mende, then the restaurants of mende are very high. how good can the restaurants that are at higher places on the Tripadvisor scale be? we went down the street and looked for a place to eat when we saw this restaurant. it was just before 19 o'clock, in the open part of the restaurant group of people had an evening meal. we went in when a young woman rose, she explained to us that the restaurant opens only at 7.30. then we noticed that almost all were dressed very similar, the restaurant staff had dinner before the opening of the restaurant. we asked that we keep a place for two. when we arrived about 40 minutes later, only our table was empty for two of us. all other tables were already full of guests. eating is fantastic, I can't remember when I've eaten better, even too large portions, very good wein and excellent service. we received excellent recommendations for dinner and a drink at our mealtime. I congratulate the chef and the young ladies who have served us.

I lived in Mende as an English Language Assistant for a school year and Les Voutes was one of the best restaurants in town. The restaurant is the interior of what appears to be a hallowed out cave (from whence it derives its name , so there...are no windows, but the walls are velvety grey stone and, as I recall, there are candles on the tables, giving it a very nice ambiance. The food was quite reasonable, provided you do not go all out (apertifs, salad, entree, cheese course, dessert, coffee... If you are traveling on a budget, stick to a basic entree and dessert, and simply drink water with your meal, and you will enjoy yourself for under $20. They serve pizza (french style, unfortunately: with Emmental cheese instead of Mozzarella and pastas with meat sauces, all of which are very good, and their desserts are amazing the chocolate ice cream is the actual color of a dark chocolate candy bar (note to UK readers: here in the US, our chocolate ice cream is a pale light brown and agonizingly good. They feature ice cream sundaes with clever names, none of course which I can remember now, topped with mountains of chantilly (whipped cream . Les Voutes is really popular with the university students in town (there are at least two schools one for travel and tourism, and one for teacher training in Mende that I know of, so there are quite a few twentysomethings in what you would assume would be an otherwise sleepy town . Friday and Saturday nights, the place would be packed. They opened for dinner at 7pm, and it was necessary to arrive there as soon as they opened, so as to be finished by the time the place was packed and so full of cigarette smoke that the air was foggy. However, now with France having passed and (supposedly enforcing a smoking ban, hopefully this will no longer be a drawback, which was the sole con in a long list of pros for this place. Definitely go!

Un accueil souriant des serveuses empressées. Un choix varié parmi des salades et des pizzas qui nous font très envie. Nous nous sommes régalés avec la salade foie gras noix magrets joliment agrémentée de fruits frais et la formule Duo composée d'une demi pizza et salade. Les assiettes sont copieuses car la "petite" salade est de taille bien sympathique. Des glaces délicieuses pour terminer. Cerise sur le gâteau : un choix appréciable entre différents cafés Papouasie, Kenya, italien À recommander chaleureusement pour se restaurer et découvrir la magnifique ville de Mende !

Nous sommes arrivés en couple a 20h40 et avons été très mal reçu. Refoulés a l accueil,pourtant c était la fête a Mende impossible de manger. Très déçu. Je déconseil.