Le 8 De Coeur - Ajaccio

We stumbled on this restaurant on a Sunday night when few restaurants were open. The owner is the chef, she serves the food and there are only a small number of tables. We loved it because it was non fussy, good food. The prawn salad starter was excellent, and the mains were good too. The meal was €17.50 (2 courses) and house wine was fine and reasonably priced. If you don’t want an expensive meal, try this casual friendly small restaurant.

We went to this cute little restaurant because they offered a 2-courses-dinner named 6 saveurs de corse =6 tastes of corsica). And the other starter&main-course was as well corsican and offered for example a plate of mixed slices of saussages and ham. My fiance chose that and some veal in pieces in a very delicious sauce served with homemade fries which were cut like wedges and also great). My 6-saveurs-meal was without choosing nur as well great. It contained a salty cake filled with different herbs, a spit of special corsican saussage-slices figatellu which I know now is not my favourite, but was good to be able to taste), a little salad with brocchiu a corsican interpretation of Ricotta I 'd say) and as well fries. My second course was Desserts Corse : muffin of châtaigne a special fine chestnut), créme de châtaigne with canistrelli-pieces canistrelli is a biscuit you 'll find everywhere in corsican bakeries, different savors available) and a fiadone, that 's a cake mostly made of eggs, vanilla and curd I guess. All great!! And the waiters and the boss were all very polite and happened to appear in the right moment when we were done with one course to remove the plates.. Much better than people might expect from the sight. But attention: You can only pay cash.

The place looked nice so we stepped in. There was one young boy serving the diners. He was dressed in shorts and t shirt and certainly didn't look presentable as a waiter. It took him ages to explain that the menue is written on a slate outside, and to take our orders. The food itself was average, my fish was good with a nice provencial dressing, whilst the rice was undercooked and the vegetables lacked salt or any other seasoning. My dearest had the wild boar stew which was ok, the fries that came with it were soaked in oil and didn't fit the stew.... It's not the expected experience, I guess that they are still waking up from winter hibernation...,

Very good local cuisine, everything is homemade and the owner is very friendly.

Small restaurant lost in a small alley away from the city's noises, small blanket but home cooking, simple and efficient!