Ristorante Caffe' Dante - Dreux

Often when travelling in areas when you are time limited and don't local local towns, it is great to find a gem. Caffe Dante is in a pedestrian precinct with lots of parking are the town centre. excellent coffee, good service and a lunch menu with is pasta based with many sauces including vegetarian.

Arrived in the town on an overnight stop. there had been some event going on and the town was busy. We sat down for a drink as they were setting up the evening tables. we looked at the menu and they brought a specials board. Italian food and wine. Risotto was lovely as was the seafood casollette. Reasonably priced wine. friendly waitresses Went inside to pay the bill and the place was buzzing, great atmosphere, 2 chefs busy making pizzas in the oven

Nice setting in the middle of town. Good service and tasty food. Lots of different lasagnes and pastas to choose daily and a full a la cart menu. Can't ask for more for a lunchtime visit.

Although the restaurant specialises in Risotto and lasagne (which most other tables seemed to be enjoying), we went for the steak. It was certainly the best steak that we ate in 3 weeks, and we 'd had some pretty good steak. Also the dauphinoise potato and vegetable were really tasty, rather than the some inedible mushy-vegetable-things-on-the-side that many restaurants serve with steak here. Rather curiously too, the cheapest house wine, at €7 per 50cl, with the grade of house wine at €16, was pretty good.

We had hoped to have a typical 'French ' meal on our last night in France, however, we couldn 't find a place that served this so we chose Italian. The service was friendly and charming and the dishes were were well prepared and tasted very good, The puddings were excellent.