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Best European restaurants nearby. Discover the best European food in Gemenos. View Menus, Photos and Reviews for European restaurants near you. including Les Aromes, Le 36, Le Moulin de Gemenos, Le Clos, Le Fer a Cheval, Chez Marius, L'effet Mere, Planetalis, Le Bergo, L'Air du Temps
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10. L'Air du Temps
Overall Ratings
4 based on 372 reviews
Reviewed By saverguy
This restaurant is like a good pizzeria. Very popular with local people, not used to dealing with outsiders. Lots of mosquitos. You may want to spray first. Good choice for a casual dinner.
9. Le Bergo
Overall Ratings
4 based on 25 reviews
Reviewed By Barbara A
Very friendly service, delicious magret de canard, with a fun location on one of the town's main streets. It's nice to sit outside and relax. You might ask for the fries, which come with some dishes, to be well done. Those were my only complaint. The small salad, included was very good, as was the baguette.
8. Planetalis
Overall Ratings
4 based on 303 reviews
Our restaurant can offer you a large selection of salads, meats, fishes and chief's special courses, from tartare to pasta, in a cosy setting.
Reviewed By Provence1971
English: Very bad quality. The meat was like a piece of steel. Portuguese: carne muito dura, serviço lento . France : La viande trop dure!!! Service lent!!
7. L'effet Mere
Overall Ratings
4 based on 326 reviews
Reviewed By 679ignask
not a big range of menu, but everything fresh, tasty and very good looking food! Enjoyed every bite from a "free" starter to dessert.
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6. Chez Marius
Overall Ratings
3 based on 455 reviews
Reviewed By saverguy
My husband and I visited the Gemenos Provence, France area for the third time in August of 2013. Chez Marius was recommended by the owner of the hotel where we were staying. My husband speaks French, however, he is not a native speaker and therefore not completely fluent. Neither one of us was completely sure of what was being offered on the menu. It took us a while to make a decision, even making some changes. Once we completed the order the waiter sarcastically pretended that he was whipping his brow and also flubbed his lips to indicate that getting the final order out of us was so difficult that he suffered during the process. I should have known then and there that this waiter was extremely arrogant. We started with baked, stuffed large mussels that were very delicious. Not knowing that our entrees included small salads on the plate, I ordered a salad as an appetizer. It was large and very tasty. But had the waiter properly advised me, I would have skipped this item. My husband's duck was too rare and he had to send it back to be cooked a little longer. Apparently all French people eat rare duck as the question of how he wanted it prepared never came up. While this was happening our waiter was waiting on a table with approximately 15 guests and the restaurant was becoming busier rapidly. Generally speaking, the French enjoy leisurely,slow dining so waiting a long time between courses is not unusual. After having dessert (ice cream which took another wait person 20 minutes to deliver after it was ordered) we signaled our original waiter -- don't know his name but he wore many silver rings -- for the check. He then LITERALLY saluted us as if to indicate we were so demanding that we had to be saluted -- which we are not. While the restaurant has a lovely outdoor seating area and pretty tasty food, it obviously does not value to business of English speaking people and they are not made to feel comfortable or welcome in any way. This waiter's extremely rude behavior put a damper on our visit to Chez Marius. Based on this experience I cannot recommend this restaurant and would go so far as to say, English speakers beware!
5. Le Fer a Cheval
Overall Ratings
4 based on 279 reviews
Reviewed By willy26
We have previously found this restaurant reliable, a good place for beef, and on 22 June 2014 had one of the best meals of our lives here. The Boss that day was talking to a friend while cooking cote de boeuf at arms length in the fire, before carving it into big slices and serving it up. He asked us to let him cook it saignant - which surprised us at that meant rare, but was so convinced of his beef, and he turned out to be dead right. Just cooked, melt in the mouth. Diarised as "superb meal".Fast forward to 2 July 2016. Saturday lunchtime. Quite hot day so sat under canopies. Decided to re-order their wonderful Cote de Boeuf.After 50 minutes we had been served up "amuse bouches" one of cold chopped up peppers, another squares of cold pizza. Table of 4 seniors who'd just arrived next to us were having their order taken. Wife had drunk her by now warm glass of rose, my red was a glass down. waiter, the normal fellow, late 50's, turned around and said ours would be ready "in a few minutes". We were puzzled why "saignant" now meant "take an hour to cook".Well when it arrived, the table next to us sniggered. We had two huge hunks of meat that had been seared either side, but not cooked. To touch, the steaks were not hot at all. Indeed, the longer one held ones finger on them, the colder they felt. We called over the lady waiter to ask for it to be cooked more. At this point we got told off about how we had asked for saignant and that we should learn to speak French because that was what we had been given. She then turned her back on us and recounted to the table next to us how the tourists who clearly did not understand French had asked for blue steaks and were now not happy. At this point my wife got very annoyed and we explained how we had not asked for blue at all, and could they send it back for more cooking. After further argument, about how cooking terms for steaks were defined, steaks went back to kitchen. This lady insisted we had ordered raw. The woman waiter may think herself clever but we have eaten steaks all over France and the manager cooked one of the best. He works here! But not this day. We had to argue with this lady out to set new standards in the opposite direction.The table next door now became annoying. volunteering the unwanted opinion that the steaks were "too thick to cook properly" and that we had erred by asking for saignant (as on 22-6-14).After a few minutes the next table all got perfect steaks with vegetables, bloody and rare looking, and agreed that theirs were fine, so what were the tourists on about? Then ours arrived. "Hot Plates" stated the young bloke waiter. Yes, but the steaks were the same. Lady came over to see we were happy. Non! Still not done. But by now carved into four looking for evidence of cooking. Back to kitchen. "Please cook more". A few mins later, it now 1.30, not 12 anymore, back it came. Same. Not cooked. We were very hungry. Wife was really fed up, I ate as much as I could, but found it cold, gristly and raw. About 1/3 was totally inedible uncooked gristle and fatty sinews (what normally give the cut flavour). Afterwards we ordered a coupe de fraises and vanilla ice cream. This turned up without strawberries, just two boules of ice cream. The young chap had taken the order, the older one said "we don't do strawberries". Our French was not wrong here either. Fraises are strawberries. And even the table next to us agreed and shook their heads in sympathy by now. WE ate - and shrugged.With a Ricard and a 50cl of Dom de Cagueloup Rouge, bill came to 83 euros.Afterwards, a lady introduced herself as Canadian and said she had watched and listened to us being treated appallingly. She said she spoke perfect French and that what we had been told was nonsense, that a thick piece de boeuf needs a fierce temperature to not just sear it but to cook it. I had seen the fire indoors looking weedy and needing poking when going to toilet after 10 mins. She also said two customers left after 45 mins when their steaks hadn't come.Boy did we wish we had left after 45 mins! The remainder of our holiday, from early Sunday morning at 4 am through Tuesday's travelling back to UK, we needed to access the toilets quickly.We had no other source of food poisoning, and it killed the end of our holiday.Bravo lady waiter and colleagues for ruining the end of our holiday and a fine memory. How I paid them 83 euros for this still upsets me but we did not want her talking faster to the Police than we could. And she will always be able to talk French faster than us.But knowledge of steak? She is an expert on serving raw to tourists. Well who needs that for 83 euros?
4. Le Clos
Overall Ratings
4 based on 194 reviews
Reviewed By ParisEric_14
The place offers two fairly large rooms plus an outdoor terrace, the latter is open weather permitting and in Gemenos the weather is permitting at least 200 days/year. At lunch time the place is popular with salespeople working the numerous businesses in the nearby light industry area. Evenings bring mostly couples and families, true locals as well as retired people living all year in Cassis, La Ciotat, etc., and holidaymakers, in season Children welcome. Steaks, lamb shops, sausages, andouillettes and pieds de cochon are grilled over an open fire, excellent pizzas are prepared backstage, along with simple french food with a meridional accent. Nothing fancy, no gastronomie. Prices moderate. Friendly staff. May or may not understand some english. Parking easy, on the premices, at the back of the building. The best out of 3 or 4 similar places in and around Gemenos. If coming from the coast on A50 take A52 Aix then immediately exit 35, route 8 towards Toulon, drive 4 km until 4th roundabout (check sign on Lapeyre furniture store) turn 90° left towards Gemenos, drive on for 1500 m, restaurant is on your right, about 500 m south of the old Gemenos village. Driving time from Cassis or La Ciotat is about 20 minutes. Closed sat plus eve. of sun & mon.
3. Le Moulin de Gemenos
Overall Ratings
4 based on 158 reviews
Le Moulin de Gemenos is the perfect venue for all your family events: weddings... This old "Provençale" building will host you and your family thanks to the expertise they have developed in the last 30 years. Every Sunday, you can taste our brunch, with o
Reviewed By JoyShurjo
The restaurant was good in terms of food list. It was crowded as it was a weekday and lunchtime. However, overall environment was good, staffs were friendly. Good location.We are very peased you enjoy our place.It's really a pleasure to receive foreign tourist.I hope you will come back soon.
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2. Le 36
Overall Ratings
4 based on 231 reviews
Reviewed By Barbara A
We only had one dinner here - one pizza and a pasta dish - and really wanted to come back again. The second time, we did not have reservations, and all the tables were booked for the night. Hours are for dinner, from 7:30. A small place, with friendly service and very good food, located right in the center of the village. Try to plan ahead, and to reserve if possible.
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1. Les Aromes
Overall Ratings
4 based on 204 reviews
Reviewed By stefanb213
My client took me to this little gem. Beautiful location; very attentive service, without being too present; EXCELLENT food, using best products, very good wine. And the price really reasonable: 50EUR for 2 eaters, plus 33EUR for an excellent red from Cassis.Very recommendable!
