Valbonne
Café des Arcades

Café des Arcades

17 T rue de la Fontaine, 06560 Valbonne, France

Cafés • Européen • Asiatique • Végétarien


"We come here to eat as the default choice to eat whenever we arrive in Valbonne.Right in the square, it is always busy with lots of conversation, children playing and busy waiting-on staff to hand.If you like people watching, this is the place for you. A variety of locals, old and young, mixed with the tourists makes for lively, entertaining and fun experiences.The restaurant itself has plenty of seating outside, and although you might have to wait for a table, we haven't had too long a wait (10 mins tops).Mix of food, pizza, steak, salad, pasta - all good. We haven't had a bad meal here ever (have been on/off for last 4 years).Staff all very friendly, and although service is at a pace, it works well.If you want a quiet, romantic meal with a calm environment and subtle music - go somewhere else (but not a criticism). To be fair, we have only ever eaten here at the height of summer, so probably at its busiest, but the setting is more for fun evenings with friends, enjoying the atmosphere of a busy town square.Given all that, we have never been rushed to eat, pay or leave, you can stay to drink afterwards, and soak up the fun.This is a good place to eat when you want somewhere easy to find, plenty of space, reasonable food (although the fillet steak last night was superb!), reasonable wine / beer, and good service.Prices aren't extortionate, a three course meal with plenty of house wine will be between €30-50 / head (pizza vs steak).Overall, we love it. It does what it says, well. As long as you know what to expect, I can't see anyone being disappointed.Last night there was an open air mini-concert, complete with stage and lights, which went on well past midnight. Loud, fun and lots of dancing!"

Le Bois Doré

Le Bois Doré

265 Route d Antibes, 06560 Valbonne, France

Kebab • Cafés • Européen • Mexicain


"We're familiar with the Doré wood. The terrace is very pleasant and the menu of the market (21 € for an entry 1 dish 1 glass of wine) is competitive. we come regularly for our business meals, we invite our guests/suppliers for the lunch break. This time, what a disappointment! Does the team look different? we arrive at 12h25 - we order our aperos and 4 menus of the market. a bottle of perrier is served half empty (or full depending on how we see things.) we signal it to the server (a new one?) who tells us that sorry, we mixed the full and empty and we change it. until then everything goes (about) well. Time passes. We are beginning to receive our entries. Time passes and passes, time turns. We have a professional meeting with our guests at 2:00. Our dishes are coming. We eat and there it's spoiled. the server (visibly overflowed or absent from its terrace) puts a crazy time to get rid of. No luck, one of our guests took a dessert. and the, patatrac, after 20 minutes, we call the waiter to ask him for 4 coffees. It's already 14:10 we have to leave. We remind him that we're waiting for a dessert (appeal check) and we're in a hurry. He gets mad by telling us that: 1 we are not alone - 2 the crumble puts 10 minutes to bake, huh? -Yes, but it was ordered at the beginning of the meal at the same time as the rest; So there was 1h30 he could have expected - and 3 he thinks we don't have to complain because we ate in 1h30 dessert flat entrance. There he is told to cancel the dessert because we don't have the time.The coffees arrive at 14:20. dessert follows, brought by the boss who is surprised that we already have our coffees. We're telling him we canceled dessert. that it's now 14:30 that we're not on vacation and that his server is bad. dessert goes back to the kitchen but stays on our note. not a commercial gesture and well on the server looked through us when we left and well on yet did not greet us. it is obviously not done for this job. casting mistake!"