Le Quatre Saisons - Sarlat-la-Canéda

If you are looking for classic French cuisine of high quality in a charming and quiet setting at bargain prices - this is the place! I was not really

We found this restaurant in our guide book and decided to try, among a number of other places that are in Sarlat. Very good choice! We had the menu for 21€ and baby menu for 10.50€. Excellent tomatoes filled with special mixture of bread, foie...gras and spices; local ham; main courses lamb and canard (also for the child). Dessert included: interesting tiramisu with strawberries; local cheese and ice cream. Overall, 72.50€ including a good ref wine from Bergerac, recommended by the owner. Service very friendly, polite and professional. We had dinner in a small internal court in an old building; nice location. Overall, top score!

Well, it was a hot day and we loved the look of this place so we stopped in after lunch time was over. There was a table of men enjoying a bottle of wine, and we asked for drinks. The owner/bartender (not sure which) welcomed us and poured us beers and wine and was so extremely friendly we figured we’d come back for dinner. But the terrible reviews scared us away.

We loved this place and its quirky food; they used to set light to rosemary underneath your duck. But this was an understandably empty restaurant not measuring up to former glory. When things are crossed off the menu and you are the only ones there and cant get what starter or wine you ask for it's a potential problem. That said my starter was polenta, I think, in a fish shellfish soup that was very tasty and lamb shank nice, but potatoes looked a bit like a brown pie! Didn't taste too bad to be fair.

Nice place, with a small cosy terrace but the food was very bad. We took the menu and the only good things were the uncooked product (fois gras was okay and wine) but everything else was bad, meat over cooked, dry, sauces too salty, parmentier too oily, duck didn't taste duck... They just destroy the good products they have in the region. Really disappointed with this restaurant.