Le Chat qui Rit - Reynès

Si vous souhaitez goûter à l'authentique cuisine française du vieux monde, alors "Le Chat" est l'endroit idéal ! Le chef est génial et le serveur ne pouvait pas en faire assez pour nous ! La carte des vins est régionale et de grande qualité. Le chef se fera un plaisir de marier les vins pour vous. Les portions sont très généreuses et la qualité est excellente !

C'est la première fois que je visite cette région de France avec ma femme et mes enfants, et nous avons décidé de nous arrêter dans ce restaurant alors que nous étions de passage. Nous avons été bien accueillis à notre arrivée et assis dans une salle à manger chaleureuse et colorée avec un joli plafond peint. par un peintre local. Les repas ont été servis rapidement pour une soirée bien remplie avec 2 serveuses, toujours agréables et ont pris le temps d'écouter. Les prix sont très raisonnables pour la nourriture qui nous a été servie (produits frais des marchés locaux de la région) et le restaurant était très propre, surtout les toilettes. Merci pour cette merveilleuse soirée et nous ne manquerons pas de revenir dans le futur.

On arrival I realised that we really did not need to make a reservation as we were the only guests apart from one other table for one.The food was good, delicious selection of local Catalan cold meats followed by a perfectly cooked piece of veal and my ever delightful companion had an equally delicious fish dish. The wine choice was small but good. Just very strange eating in a deserted restaurant on a Friday evening.

To get the only minus point out of the way - Le Chat Qui Rit is located along a busy and noisy main road, although it's not visible behind a hedge. There, that is it. Good points: sit in the garden outside under the sun awnings and shaded by trees and vines and you will think you are in heaven. There are only half-a-dozen tables: the service - friendly staff - is first rate and the food inventive and superb. On a hot day their cold soup is restorative. They even elevate a humble (if ecologique) pork sausage to a high level. In a country not known for its gastronomic qualities, this is one French restaurant you will be sorry to leave: it is that good. We paid €75 for two people, including drinks and coffee, one set menu, one a-la-carte, although we were both too full to take a desert - my wife did have the excellent cheese plate. And as an aside, about 150 metres before you reach the restaurant coming from the direction of Ceret, is a Lidl store which amazingly sells local produce - and good produce at that.

Visited without reservation after being recommended from friends. We were welcomed despite the restauraunt was close to being full. I took the vegetarian dish and the fish dish which was a la carte, and my husband took the veal chop. The cooking and the seasoning was great and the waitress very friendly. The wine list was full of local wines, great for the producers of the area.I recommend this restaurant and we will be sure to return