Chateau Le Verdoyer - Champs-Romain

Setting: amazing, peaceful, fun, unforgettable. Food: perfection...delicious...large portions...inexpensive. Service: cheerful, efficient Entire evening: delightful

This review is not about the camping site, which is very good, but about the restaurant, which is very bad. We came there with a group of four adults and four kids and immediately liked the nice situation of the restaurant at the small lake. We also liked our friendly server, sometimes, however, we needed to re-order things a couple of times. Not a problem. Three kids menues (fries, chicken nuggets, steak hache etc. were prefabricated, of average quality and did arrive after some reasonable waiting time. Probably, these items were produced in the cheap snack bar next door, but we do not know and cannot confirm this. Either way, not a real problem. The four adults and one kid that was left behind waited for more than two hours for their dishes. And the food was not worth the wait. Portions were small, losely fit the description, lacked some key ingredients, and the meat was not great but generally okayish. The side dishes, however, were very obviously the kitchen rests of a long day: old potatoes which were soaking with fat and something that looked like, perhaps, parsnip. But, given the poor state of these kitchen rests, this was very difficult to tell. Given the very late delivery of the dishes (BTW: any other party had overtaken us by now , the poor correspondence of menu desriptions and the food delivered, and the really annoying side dishes, we complained a bit. Did I also mention that the one kid that was still waiting with us instead of rice, which she likes and which she ordered, also got the potatoe-parsnip-something, which no one likes and which she did not order? Responding to these complaints, another waitress informed us that we reserved only in the evening and not in the afternoon so that there cannot be any rice. We found that difficult to follow. Most likely, the kitchen simply lacked the energy and motivation required to prepare a little bit of rice. We believe in direct communication and thus tried to talk to the management. These complaints, however, did not reach the chef. Our server, clearly looking a bit freightened, told us “The chef is angry, he won’t talk to you.” (And he had obviously been angry even BEFORE we complained. This is exactly the reason why our feedback now needs to come as an angry online review. Below the line, the problem very clearly seems to be the poor organization of the kitchen and conflicts among the employees. We believe that restaurants cannot merely print bills; they also need to deliver and should be responsive to their guests. In this current, disorganized state we can obviously only recommend against choosing the Chateau le Verdoyer restaurant.

Visiting a camper van in mid-September for one night. Beautiful campsite, swimming pool already being cleaned. The location was very good.

Welcomed in the castle The menu is worth the detour However, there is a little lack of variety in the menus after 2 meals taken on the site. The managers and their team take great care...

Spacious room in the castle with a view of the campsite swimming pool and the surrounding greenery. A real castle transformed into a cocoon by the owners who took us back in time! Welcoming and attentive owners, as well as all the staff (especially Lily the restaurant waitress). Furthermore, top notch and delicious cuisine with local dishes. We will come back with pleasure and want to try our hand at the mobile home part of the campsite, feeling a real family spirit there! See you next year, always Amélie and Antoine