Marc & Daina's in Nottingham

Nice place, nice food, good service

Love this restaurant, certainly the best in Sherwood. The food is very tasty and cooked fresh. The hostess is excellent. How we have missed this restaurant over theyears is beyond us, but certainly our number 1 place to go in the future.

We had a fantastic meal at Marc and Dainas. The food was authentic and incredibly tasty at good prices. Daina is a great host and we look forward to coming back soon!

The waitress and the chef or maybe he was the manager, were both very nice. Food was good as well. ❤

What a great little restaurant. We had a warm welcome from the waitress who was friendly and very attentative. The restaurant was small but cosy. The food was delicious and well served . The service was second to none. The wine was good. And the prices reasonable. This is not a copybook restaurant so if your looking for something different ( French cuisine) look no further you really can't go wrong here.I Heartily recommend this restaurant to you.

I don't particularly like leaving poor reviews for places, especially small, family run establishments. Unfortunately, as the issues were completely avoided by our waitress whilst in the restaurant, I feel compelled to leave a review.The place was nice enough, although the music was too loud and the place smelled slightly musty. The waitress was polite, took our order and the meal started out well with our starters which were both very nice. The problem started with the main course. We both ordered the confit of lamb which is one of the most expensive dishes on the menu. When I tasted it, it was so unbelievably dry, tough and did not taste at all like lamb. I told the waitress that the lamb was incredibly dry only to be told that "It's a confit, it's supposed to be dry, it's cooked for two and a half hours and it's just different tastes, some people like their lamb well done." She then walked away.Okay so let's back up a minute...firstly I am actually French so I know full well what a confit is! I know for a fact, having eaten confit many times in France, that confit is anything but dry! Quite the opposite in fact, confit meats cook and tenderize with virtually no moisture or flavour loss - the meat is well done but not at all dry. Confit is supposed to be moist, tender and full of flavour; it's so tender that it falls apart on your plate and melts in your mouth. This wasn't a case of lamb well done, it wasn't a confit either, nor was it about 'different tastes'; it was simply a very overcooked, dry, tough and flavourless piece of meat, which quite frankly for a French restaurant is pretty poor. The red wine jus that accompanied it was nice and the veg were OK, but neither of these made up for the fact that the lamb was absolutely terrible. I couldn't eat mine at all, my partner ate his and some of mine mainly for not wanting to throw £34 down the drain.As for the crêpes suzette, I'm really not sure what they were either. Wasn't crêpes suzette that's for sure! Some may like them, they weren't terrible, they just didn't taste like crêpes suzette. The crêpes were too thick, sweet and soggy (not thin, slightly crispy on the outside French crêpes), there was too much sauce, they didn't look or taste like they'd been flambéd (they certainly weren't flambéd at the table, which of course they should be) & I couldn't taste the Grand Marnier.I'm not sure what the other dishes on the menu are like, they seem to have a lot of good reviews so I guess there must be some things they're good at. All I can say is avoid the lamb at all costs! As for us, we won't be eating here again.

Lovely family run place, They have been here 19 years and still getting it right! Service great, food great and portion size great.

This independent, family-run place is a hidden gem in Sherwood. Classic French style cuisine, very reasonably priced and friendly service. We paid £18.95 for 3 courses as part of an early evening offer, but would happily pay full price whenever we can make it there.

I have eaten at 5 star restaurants around the world. The food in this restaurant is on par if not better. Why is this a hidden gem in Nottingham only cane across the restaurant by chance. Highly recommended.

I enjoyed my meal the mussel starter with chorizo and coriander was delicious the portion was generous although the mussels were very small. my partner had the scallops which were delicious and had a lovely flavour. for the main i had the duck which was tasty and cooked well the gravey and vegetables were nice. My partner had the lamb which was disgusting it was burnt to a dry crisp I can't beleive someone would have the nerve to serve that to a customer. It was the dryest lamb I've ever tasted in my life it was hard as a brick. My partner doesn't like to make a fuss and he ate it. But when the waitress came over and asked how it was I told her my meal was good but the lamb was terribly dry and overcooked, she apologised awkwardly and that was it. Luckily we were using a Meerkat 241 code so didn't mind too much to just pay and, leave and never return. However I would of refused to pay full price of around £17 for that lamb. For my meal I would of gave a 3 star but because of the lamb it's a 1 star overall because it's disgraceful they would serve that to a paying customer regardless of if they were paying full price or using a 241 code