Amazing food!!! Just two guys and what they do is just spectacular. Loved the whole experience…read more Wonderful food for a wonderful price. Super impressed!

The highlight of my visit to Rennes last weekend, was an amazing dinner at La Vieille Auberge. The…read morerestaurant is located in Hédé, close to Rennes, and everything from the starters and entrees to the desserts and wine pairings were perfectly prepared and considered by Chef Jean-Marc Leffondré. The host, Eric Leffondré, and waiter were prompt and extremely polite, adding the family feeling to an already charming and romantic ambiance with the stunning views on the pond and surrounded by nature.

As always, my visit to La Vielle Auberge last week was spectacular. The pork was phenomenal as was…read morethe creme brûlée. This was a lunch and it's important to note that lunch can be timely meal while dinner here is usually quite lengthy, but there's nothing else to do in Hede anyway.

My husband picked out this one and he's usually right on the money. This was by far our best meal…read moreso far in France. His filet was superb, I could see the tenderness from across the table. I tried the Andoulle (sp?) sausage casserole, which was amazing. Their open bottle muscadet was very nice. They were full when we arrived at 8 PM on a Tuesday night, but seated us outside and still gave us good service.

I went on holiday nearby with my girlfriend who has been going to the same place for over 20 years…read morewith her family! This is her favourite restaurant in the area so I was very keen to go and see what the fuss was about. We hadn't booked as we were on holiday and as such had no internet, and equally couldn't find a card in the cottage, so we just turned up and hoped! They hadn't got any free tables inside, and it was a September evening so fairly cold outside but we braved it and were the only people occupying a table outside the restaurant! It was worth it as the food was exquisite, we mixed and matched between ourselves on the set menu options but the star of my meal was the pork in a cocotte cooked with cider sauce, which was the best meal of the holiday, let alone the evening. It was gorgeous, and I'd definitely recommend it to anyone - it would be worth the cost of getting to France just to eat here. We were getting cold towards the end but the service was fantastic and even though we were the only ones outside, the waitresses kept coming out to check on us very regularly. I now have bought myself a couple of cocottes as eating here inspired me to up my cooking skills! 5 stars, if not more!

The slovenliness of the staff, the over priced and over rated food are what many would seize upon…read moreto give France its undeserved reputation for poor service. On our first visit we might have thought better of the food had it actually been what we had ordered! The response? Too late to prepare anything else now.! Determined though to discover the reason for their good reputation my wife and I have tried le Cottage three more times. Our level of disappointment has only increased each time. On the last occasion a large, extremely loud and uncouth group of 'trippers' from the Channel Islands from boats berthed in the harbour were creating havoc on the first floor. Although we were downstairs we could barely hear ourselves talk. We discreetly asked the proprietress if it might be possible for her to ask the revellers if they could at least curb some of the more vile of their language. Particularly as there were children present and whom clearly understood every word. Her reply? They're very good customers.! Well we won't ever be any sort of customers again and would recommend everyone else gives le Cottage a wide berth too. With any luck and hopefully one day soon, someone else might take over and make better use of le Cottage's prime position.