Loiseau du Temps

We booked for 4 people on Thursday evening. I was apprehensive when reading the reviews but wanted to form my own opinion. I find that some criticisms are very harsh and do not really reflect reality. The welcome is warm, the service very pleasant and quite fast. The cuisine, although quite simple, is delicious. All the dishes tested were perfectly prepared and we were very satisfied with them. It might take some effort to prepare the dishes, which lack a little originality, but the products are excellent and are sufficient in themselves. Of course the problem remains the fairly high price for ultimately quite simple dishes. We paid €230 for starters, main courses and dessert for 4 without wine. So a little expensive to go there regularly. One last point and this will be the only negative: we had warned in advance that one of the guests had to eat gluten-free. This was very well taken into account for the dishes but the waitress apologized for not being able to offer us gluten-free bread. It is very easy to get it in any supermarket, and even if it is not fresh bread, the attention would be appreciated...

Very warm welcome in this prestigious place in Besançon, impeccable waiter attentive to our needs and available, the starters (fried bleak, Blanche country terrine) were perfect, the dishes delicious (trout fillet, beef steak) and very hot , the excellent dessert (chocolate finger), all accompanied by glasses of wine that we adapted to the menu. My wife, who is celiac and therefore intolerant to gluten, was able to eat without any problem because the cooks adapted the dishes to her diet, a big thank you to them (there was simply a lack of gluten-free bread for a restaurant of this type). A big eater may be a little hungry after the table, the cost is a little excessive, especially for wine. There is no menu for dinner (everything is a la carte unlike lunch) with the possibility of accompanying a glass of wine for each dish. Apart from these last few remarks, we had an excellent evening.