" France in South London Michelin Star food at bistro prices what a find. Set menu at lunch can not be beaten on price or food quality. The only thing that lets this restaurant down is the service it can be very surly, but luckly you would go back time and time again for the food. Three course on Saturday is 19 unbelievable! Decor is perfectly french so are the waiters uniforms and the lonly other thing which irritates is the parking outside which is very expensive and not long enough to have along french lunch with plenty of wine. Fab Fab Fab "

- Catharine I

" This is the sort of restaurant that makes you want to move to Croydon. It's got real joie de vivre, the prices are fair, and - above all else - it's a proper French restaurant with proper cooking. "

- Guy Dimond

" A nicely old-fashioned, "proper" French restaurant in an area that needs a bit of a leg-up. It has the potential to be the perfect neighbourhood restaurant! "

- Terry Durack

" A top French restaurant in Croydon? My dear, how priceless......the perfect local restaurant: so charming, simple, friendly, family-orientated, the food cooked with impeccable judgement, served without fuss or flap. "

- John Walsh

" Malcolm John, a Croydon-dweller, is clearly taking a risk in opening a top French restaurant in his insalubrious backyard. But when you stop admiring his nerve, there's much to admire about his food. The menu is so French, it practically has leetle twirly moustaches in zer margins. Starters were a little predictable, but intensely flavoured. Escargots de Bourgogne were fat and hot and reeking with garlicky butter. The endive tarte tatin was a revelation, the endive caramelised until it was sweet as apple, but with a lingering ghost of bitter chicory, teased out by some creamy goat's cheese. My children ordered a 28-day-hung chateaubriand to share and went into raptures about its succulence. My duck confit definitely was a thing of beauty, a big alpha-duck leg, its skin crisp as Cellophane, the flesh poking out tiny, steaming fibrous fingers, the whole thing dotted with fat puy lentils and served on a creamy mash that curled round the leg like a persistent seducer. Le Cassoulet is the perfect local restaurant. How fortunate you'd be to have such a place on your own doorstep. "

- Tracey MacLeod and John Walsh