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Several of the hotels have good
restaurants
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Family Home
serves a filling and good-value dinner at 8pm each evening for 65F/a?¬9.91. Otherwise, most of Bayeux's restaurants are in the rue St-Jean, leading east from the river, or near the main door of the cathedral. Watch out for Sundays: virtually everywhere is shut.
La Fringale , 43 rue St-Jean (tel 02.31.21.34,40). The nicest of the many pavement restaurants along the pedestrian rue St-Jean, offering good-value lunch menus and also generous salads and snacks, as well as more formal fishy dinners. Closed mid-Dec to Jan, plus Wed in low season. Le Petit Bistrot , 2 rue Bienvenue (tel 02.31.51.85.40). Bright-yellow-painted restaurant opposite the cathedral; menus from 98F/a?¬14.94 upwards boast a fine assortment of scallops. Closed Sun, plus Mon in low season. Le Petit Normand , 35 rue Larcher (tel 02.31.22.88.66). Sixteenth-century house by the cathedral, offering good traditional cooking, with seafood specialities and local cider. Lunch menus from 60F/a?¬9.15, dinner from 95F/a?¬14.48. Closed Jan, plus Thurs Oct-April. Le Pommier , 40 rue des Cuisiniers (tel 02.31.21.52.10). Small traditional restaurant near the cathedral, with a tiny terrace. Meat- and dairy-rich Norman cuisine on menus from 76F/a?¬11.59 to 146F/a?¬22.26. Closed Feb, plus Sun evening & Wed in low season.
La Table du Terroir
, 42 rue St-Jean (tel 02.31.92.05.53). A rendezvous for closet meat freaks, tucked away behind a butcher's shop and serving the freshest, bloodiest flesh on a well-judged quartet of menus, at 60F/a?¬9.15, 98F/a?¬14.94, 115F/a?¬17.53 and 155F/a?¬23.63 - the last features a tureen of sweetbreads. Closed Sun evening, Mon & mid-Oct to mid-Nov. Other useful information
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