La Maree Bleue - La Tremblade

Our annual return speaks for itself. It is a very good family restaurant with helpful service. There is a good range of food ranging from shell fish to meats. It is all well prepared. There are set menus and al la carte so it can fit all budgets. It is always busy with holiday makers which is not a surprise as it occupies a prime site on the High Street. There is a lot of competition and so a good crowd is a good indication. It is busy with a happy atmosphere. This was our first visit with a babe in arms (my grand daughter). The staff were very helpful is seating us in a good position with ample space to move around.

Long delays for average food. Only one waitress working on a busy night, who was doing her best. Another man who appeared to be the boss was wandering around and wasn't helping much. We won’t be going back.

We have eaten here many times over the last twenty years or so. It is a great family restaurant and we just needed the excuse of grand children to go back. It occupies a good site on the high street with the beach just at the back. The decoration is in good condition and is bright and welcoming. The staff are all attentive and helpful and our waitress spoke reasonable English, so with our passable French we muddled through.The menu is wide ranging from simple al a carte, fixed price menus and full platter de fruit de mer. It all looks delicious. I had moules et frites and then ice cream. It was a great lunch and we will try to go again before my daughter goes home.

We chose this restaurant as it looked nice and the 14.80€ menu sounded like good value. We started off with the fruit de mer salad which was really a plate of lettuce with a few bits of tuna and the odd mussel on it. The waitress brought us a small basket of bread (three small slices of dry bread with huge holes in it). My husband had been hankering after Moules Frites for a while so that is what he had and he enjoyed it, I had the Merlu and frites which was ok. For dessert I had the fruit salad which was fresh fruit and nothing else. My husband had the apple cake.

We were in Ronce at lunchtime one very quiet Friday in late September. Many of the shops had closed for the season and there were only a few people about. Most of the restaurants had no-one in at 12:30 but this looked the best option. Over the course of the meal it gradually filled and we were looked after well. We took two menus 'coursive', one with steak and the other salmon. The steak was tasty if a bit fatty, but ample with the fat cut off, the salmon was slightly small, though adequate, and presented in a tasty seafood sauce. We had plenty without taking the cheese course, but took the good desserts, one a crepe the other a very good creme brulee. Service was absolutely fine, as it should have been on such a slow day. I'm surprised by the low ratings given by other reviewers but will try out the other places on future visits, but they'll have to be very good to beat our experience. At the time of our visit none of the other restaurants got as many customers as this one by the end of lunch time, and you can usually trust the locals to suss out and patronise only the good places.