Cote Bewertungen 

I went to the bury st Edmund’s restaurant yesterday (Saturday 25th) the breakfast was incredible probably the best French toast I have ever had!

We could see the staff were working extremely hard as it was incredibly busy and quite honestly we’re dealing with an extremely large difficult party! They handled themselves so well and are an asset to your company!

I can’t wait to return and try the granola bowls!

I have eaten at Cote many times over the years and as recently as June I've enjoyed a meal here. I was unaware of the ownership/menu changes so while the service was still good, last night's experience in Shrewsbury came as an unwelcome surprise.

The menu has been reduced to a single A4 card, and several of the staple options removed or replaced by pasta dishes. Despite a change in presentation style the crab maison starter was still serviceable, but we had to send the confit pork belly back as it was not crispy at all. When it was returned, it soon became apparent there was little to no meat and we were left chasing blubber around the plate.

It's a shame as Cote was one of the last reliable chain restaurants in town, but appears to be going the same way as the rest.

As a family we have been coming to Cote regularly for many years, last night was the last. The shrunken menu is dumbed down to burgers, pasta, chicken and chips...stuff like that. Very small portions, not cooked well and very expensive for what it is. Only 5 bottles of white wine to choose from and all about £30 plus. The price hike/drop in value is enormous! Moules the size of a starter (£18). Half chicken and chips (£23) Dry chicken, poor quality but endless chips and a bit of rocket to fill the big empty space on the plate. Side dishes are miniscule and Tuna now grilled not seared and overcooked. There is no French influence here at all unfortunately, even the staff were embarrassed by it all.
So enjoy your year of profit at our expense Cote. Then swiftly followed by the inevitable slide into closures and oblivion, all brought upon by mismanagement greed. How sad!

Haven't been to cote for some time but it used to have a decent French inspired menu. Went to St Martins cote in London tonight. It was packed with pre theatre goers. A captive audience. Service is fast and reasonably good. Food is pretty awful. Their set menu has very few options. We paid £8 extra for a sirloin steak which was relatively small with a few fries and overcooked for medium and medium rare. The idea of flowing fries was definitely not evident as nothing was offered. I saw the linguine with seafood which was served on a plate and not a bowl. The size of portions was not commensurate with the price. A rather cheap cote de Gascogne for over £30 is a rip off even for London. There are so many great restaurants in Covent Garden and soho such as prix fixe. Avoid if you can.
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Basically just bring back the old menu!
Always look forward to lunch at Cote but went recently with a friend and it was terrible! The new style half chicken was awful, I can only describe the skin as flacid and greasy and the chicken was tasteless and dry.
The new menu was confusing, there was no fish to speak of, all their lovely little French dishes were gone and were replaced with Pasta!
There are so few French restaurants on the high street, so why introduce this when you can get Italian Pasta anywhere?
Cote is normally our go to restaurant, the food is always just right and is good value. The service is also first class at Bury St Edmunds as it was that day but I feel sorry for the staff dealing with all their grumpy customers at the moment.
We won’t be coming back until things change!

Wow ! What and who has happened to Cote??!! Once a classy French style restaurant serving classic dishes well made and good value for money now a menu half the size, prices hiked, bottomless fries (oven chips - very classy!) and £22 for dry tasteless chicken and chips served with no garnish - Sadly nandoes does chicken better !! This is not Cote - even the waiting staff were embarrassed to serve us . Hopefully Cote will take all these reviews of the dreadful new menu and make changes quickly before they lose their loyal customers . Feels like budget cafe food with inflated prices lol going off their name :( Just cancelled our Xmas meal here this year …

Delightful staff and service as always in our local, Blackheath SE London Côte, BUT…

… a new high in the “We’re right, you’re wrong ..” style of online marketing? We’ve loved our local Côte, and liked the email newsletters (especially as they often offer free drinks!) but their recent weeks’ style has been weirdly apologetic with phrases like “ we’d lost our way “ to justify a new menu. Implying we (the customers) were mugs for previously putting up with great, authentic but now abandoned dishes like Breton Fish Stew and Poulet Grille? And that the (new?) Executive Chef has swooped in to save us with new alternatives like bottomless chips, Pasta and Burgers!

But today’s email disses the dissenters even more harshly, dictating that;
“ Our new French Roast Chicken is here...and it’s cluckin’ good.
We know you’ve been missing your Poulet Breton and old favourite Poulet Grillé. We’ve heard every “bring it back!” and every wistful sigh.
But our Executive Chef Steve is confident that our new French Roast Chicken is even better…”

So there. All you whingeing customers are wrong. We, or rather “Steve” is right!

Ok, yes, the new chicken is terrific. And so generous that I had to doggy bag a quarter home. No way could I cope with more chips? Although I guess if I wanted to be a cynical cheapskate, we could split a Demi Poulet and a mountain of Frites between two? Which would make up for them dropping our favourite House Wine from Languedoc so now we pay almost a fiver more for booze?

But no matter; we won’t cluck off, we’ll still visit weekly, and receive the same brilliant service from Kornelia, Chiara, Adrian, Naseem, Paul and all their wonderful waiters, commis and kitchen magicians at Côte Blackheath

Going to Cote St Martins Lane used to be such a treat. Tonight the food was terrible and overpriced. Tomato and basil salad used poorest produce, arrived crudely chopped, not sliced, without a drop of decent olive oil and about half a shredded basil leaf. Steak frites came tepid and ungarnished, creme brulee was cold! Won't be going to a Cote again.

The menu has changed and is now limited and boring. Tuna was overcooked and tough, couldn’t eat it. I have eaten at Cotes for years and always enjoyed a variety of dishes now removed from the menu; the new menu is so disappointing and expensive.

I have no idea what is going on with Côte but the chain has clearly plummeted in quality in the last two months. Having been a regular at Côte since it opened, I booked to take some clients out for dinner thinking that Côte is always reliable in quality of food and atmosphere. I couldn’t have been more wrong! It was like walking into a cheap pub, tables weren’t set and were chipped, forks bent and it was quite frankly embarrassing with my customers. The previously varied menu with lovely dishes has disappointingly been replaced with a dire, basic fast food type menu. I was concerned it was just our local restaurant that was the problem but, from reading other reviews, I can see this is happening across the chain. I can’t understand what has possibly prompted this and it surely can’t have been thought through by management? I was sincerely shocked that this seems to be a concious decision from the top. Côte need to urgently reconsider as they will definitely be losing their long time, loyal customer base with this change. I won’t be returning as the experience would have been better down the pub and I would have paid much less too.

I was so looking forward to going to Cote today. I have been a loyal customer for many years. My proud boast has been, there are always so many dishes I could choose from a Cote menu, compared to any other restaurants. It has been the number one place for me to meet with friends in different branches. and the quality of the food and service has been excellent.
NOT ANY MORE!!! I had not read any of the other reviews on this site, now I have, I am in total agreement.
The new menu is a disaster. For starters, the way it is set out is really confusing. It is totally unappetising and over priced. The only thing I felt I could order was the Tuna Nicoise salad. The tuna was ok but there was a great pile of lettuce, a couple of anchovies, tomatoes, two olives and a boiled egg. Just not what I am used to. As for the chips, as opposed to frites, the last thing I would have wanted was to have an endless supply.
I didn't like the choice of desserts so finished with coffee which was the best part of the meal.
There were three of us having lunch today. We all agreed, we will no longer be going to Cote in the future unless the old menu is restored and the quality of the food improved.
It seems to me, the way Cote is going, unless it gets it's act together, it will not survive for much longer, which is such a shame.
I have another reservation for Sloane Square in December which I am going to cancel.

The Cote vibe has well and truly gone, replaced with a pitifully small menu, all the favourites have disappeared ,and please never use the word slathered on a menu.
Maybe the owners are looking for a different clientele, but you can’t fob off regulars with this inferior offering. Tragic, as we were very regular visitors to the Barbican Cote, not any more . Staff still as friendly as ever.

I’m French, and Côte Brasserie used to be one of our favourite places for a relaxed, authentic taste of home here in the UK. We’ve visited countless times over the years. The menu once captured real French flavours — the Duck Confit, slow-cooked and meltingly tender with green lentils and red-wine jus, was always perfect. The charcuterie board came with beautifully cured alpine salumi, cornichons, and rustic bread; the Poulet Breton was comforting and full of flavour. And where are the crisp French fries and those lovely sides?
We tried the new menu on 1 October: the crab mayonnaise was good, and my husband’s pasta ragù was fine, but my seafood pasta was disappointing — bland defrosted prawns, mussels with a strong smell, plain spaghetti, and no parmesan offered.
Most of the French staples have vanished, and what’s left feels cost-cut and generic. Please bring back the signature dishes and the focus on flavour that once made Côte so special.

Used to be our favourite restaurant but new menu, obviously written by an accountant and not a chef, is awful.
No more cassis for Kir or Kir Royale
No more Muscadet, my favourite wine, and no other dry white to replace it.
No French fries, just awful thick cut chips
Confusing menu possibly to disguise the meagre week day only set menu. If you have dietary requirements even more abysmal.
The saving grace is the lovely restaurant and superb staff who are taking all the flack for the corporate changes.

This restaurant chain used to be brilliant, but something has changed and what used to be a pleasurable experience is no more.
I observed that the menu had changed but was given a snippy reply by our server, "No its not, its the same menu but in a different order". But there are changes, particularly the prices. £6 for dessert spoon size portion of spinach is indicative of their excessive financial greed. After 15 years of regular visits, time for a change.

O stars sadly
Since your re-organisation, Cote has sadly removed all of what was a previously great menu, the quality and choice of food has now demised. We have been going to Cote for years because we could rely on a quality standard and a nice range of French themed food. Now you have cut corners, reduced the menu range, offered poor, grizzly cuts of unappealing steak, what seemed like oven chips, minute portions of side vegetables, small range of very standard wines. We can only concur with all the recent reviews of Cote, its so sad as we have been regular customers for years but will not be returning. Your attempts to save money by trimming the menu, using cheaper alternatives has very quickly killed a good reliable brand, so sad. Will be interesting to see to see now what happens to Cote in the coming months.
Sadly I do not think this once great chain will be seen much longer on the high street. Cote take note from your paying customers.

Cote has "lost the plot" entirely. No longer a special trusted restaurant. The new menus are awful. Have used our local Cote in the City of London for over 10 years. No more I'm sorry to say.

Sorry Cote! What has happened?! Since you have changed management style recently our dining experience was definitely not as good quality as it usually is. Once a go to place for our family to gather and eat unfortunately will no longer be the case. The food we ordered is now very basic and lacking the usual Cote Brasserie fanciness. The frites are now like basic oven chips, my husband's chicken was tough and the burger was still nice but was just like eating a normal fast food burger which would have been much cheaper at the usual fast food burger places. The staff however (at West Bridgford, Nottingham) were still very friendly, polite and provided the usual good service but the food is considerably lacking now. Don't think you will last long unless you can restore back to your old menu and presentation.

Oh dear,not the cote we used to know. Undercooked chips,seafood "linguini " made with the wrong type of pasta and too much chili. The kitchen staff seem to be struggling,the service was not much better

Having been loyal customers of Cote for the last 5 years, the new menu is tasteless, overpriced and in no way French. Sadly we like most others will not be returning which is such a shame as Cote used to be the go to restaurant.