LE VOILIER - La Marine, Bonifacio, Corsica
This restaurant is not reviewed entirely because we recommend it, but rather because it might be your choice if you are looking for something a bit better than the average in Bonifacio. It looks good and it is on the expensive side and pretend to be very posh. We got an expression that it is to this place you go to impress. The service is really too much and they address you with Sir in every other word. We are not used to that in continental France, were even a three star Guide Michelin restaurant has very relaxed service – and we do not feel comfortable with it.
From continental France we are used to that it is the same food or at least the same quality if you order a menu as if you order from the a la carte - maybe a little smaller portion sometimes – which is fine with us as we are small eaters. Therefore we ordered the menu and could not understand why the couple next to us ordered the same thing as
a la carte.
My wife had a nice starter and I had fish soup that was not anything extra, something I had expected in a fish restaurant with this image. For main dish we both had turbot, which was a disappointment. We got small tail pieces which were overcooked and had a funny smell but no taste. The vegetables were however perfectly cooked and crispy. My wife’s cheese was good and my
iles flottant with fresh fruit was very nice.
Quite a few things irritated us. They added 300% on the wine for just opening the bottle. They were less interested in us when we did not order the fresh fish or langouste they offered us. We thought it was a little too much to pay 80 euros per kilo for a fish that was just grilled. And as I said – we felt as they tried to sell us a used car.
Latest visit: May 2014
Number of visits: 1
We were so impressed of the food at lunch so we reserved a table for the evening also. At lunch we got a nice plate of local Corsican charcuterie and a nice pasta with a tasty local sausage. The tiramisu for dessert was absolutely fantastic.
This is a very special restaurant and very popular. We passed many restaurants in the old town and they were all almost empty, but at this place we could not get a table inside, but we could sit outside. It was packed. While we were eating it was a constant stream of people trying to get in.
We were told by several sources that this is the best restaurant in Ajaccio. Therefore we were very surprised to find a very simple, quite small restaurant in a back street. Just one person was serving and we could only see one person in the semi-open kitchen. The price of the lunch menu was also very reasonable but the food was really excellent. For starter we had a risotto that was very tasty and the main course was one of the best fish dishes we had on Corsica. The waiter told us it was a local fish that was not that common in restaurants as it is full of bones. We saw nothing of those however – they were taken care of by the chef. The taste was really good. My wife got some nice cheese for dessert and I had a very simple plate with strawberries and wiped cream.
There are quite a few restaurants in the nice little village Porto. Just by chance we went to La Tour Genoise to see if we could eat some fish. We had a very nice filé of dorade royale and it was no problem to change the mostly boring yellow rise for French fries. 
Half way over the mountain going from coast to coast we came to the town Corte. To find a decent restaurant is always a chance in an unknown place. Of some reason, we did not understand ourselves, we choose the small restaurant L’Annexe. It was a good choice. The lunch that was very inexpensive was excellent. My wife had cannelloni filled with the local cheese brocciu and I had two small fried trout, also with brocciu. It was maybe the best fish I had on Corsica.
