Caveau in Liverpool

It was my Wife’s Birthday and she requested Caveau for the 10th December, I immediately agreed and with the whole covid experience eatery’s have had to step up their game with online services so despite trying to book there online and getting no reply two years ago, I thought I would give it another go. ‘Tumbleweed.’I called up several days later and was told they do not get emails, so you are better always calling, ‘well say that on your website’ that clearly needs fixing.We arrive 6.30 and are shown to the table by the kitchen, its not my night out as not for wanting to spoil my Wife’s celebration we agree to sit here with myself facing the kitchen door 3 ft away. Without dwelling on the door that looks like it has not been cleaned for as long as it has been there, never mind a coat of fresh paint during lock down. Bear in mind we arrive at 6.30pm and there are only two other tables occupied so it felt as though we were being penalised for being a couple. If this were my restaurant, I would put a divider partition and make it into a one-sided booth for two.We then get told that the two tables are different heights and be careful which to my Peril I poured two glasses of wine and one fell over. A piece of 6 mm MDF will be all of £12 to correct these tables to create a even surface, but anyway the paper table coverings ‘yes I said paper’ it was like being at a kids party were eventually changed but I had to ask and bare in mine we are right outside the kitchen door here so you would expect staff to be ‘observant and attentive’.My starter ‘Rabbit terrine’ was the dullest food I have ever eaten; my wife’s scallops was OK but if it were fantastic then she would have appreciated it and commented.Our mains were Duck which if I am honest was nothing short of an OK eatery trying to step up its game, my Wife’s was Lamb and if she must go for seasoning straight out of taste one, I know the flavours are not there. Sadly, it was just average.Dessert, crème brulee, which is a signature speciality for a French eatery but come on present it with some flair.Finally, the wine, my two first choices of sauvignon by the bottle are not available, if you are going to have a wine list then get the wine in stock, if cannot get the wine then create a wine list that you can, copy and paste reserve list into word and print it out.We love to walk away from an eatery and tell everybody what a great night out we had on social media and with friends but sadly this whole celebration was an experience of somewhere that has lost its sparkle amongst growing competition and our last three ventures into Woolton for food have been incredibly positive and all within the last 6 months.I would have emailed you this rather than as a review but sadly you would not receive it.I wish you well for the future.

Beautiful restaurant, food is amazing, relaxed atmosphere, definitely worth a vist ❤

The best meal I’ve had out in years!Generous portionsTender meatTastyVeg done how I like slightly al DebyeMany thanks

My first time here and loved it. Good good combined with excellent service, what's not to love.A great place for a romantic dinner.

Poor ServiceMy friend and his girlfriend went to this restaurant on 11th September with a booking, the restaurant informed them that their booking could not be found due to an internal system error, despite my friend producing the email showing booking has been confirmed, they could not be accommodated - which is fair enough, it is out of the restaurants control - however the service and the rudeness they have experienced following this was really poor, no apology/no attempt to mitigate the hiccup. Poor service from what is supposed to be a high end restaurant

Very nice dinner in a relaxed environment. I particularly enjoyed the pauses between courses which allowed for conversation. Very relaxing

Went here on Saturday evening with family, all I can say is that it really is worth the visit, staff, excellent, service, excellent, food, fantastic, we all tried each others selections on starters and mains, we all wished we had ordered what others were having, we stayed untill late and we never felt as if we were not welcome, it was good to see the the restaurant was busy, would very highly recommend at least one visit, you will not be disappointed. Thank you to all the staff.

I went there for a baby shower. I had watercress soup, I've had better it was ok. Then I had steak and chips with a peppercorn sauce, half of the steak was nice the other was gristle, shame really. The staff were very pleasant and they did a good job. There was more on the menu to choose from and other people enjoyed. It seems I made the wrong choice.

Lovely little French reataurant situated in the local village. I had French onion soup and we both had Sole in grapes. Only downside vegetables were small. Recommended but increase the size of your vegetables

This is one of our favourite restaurants in Liverpool. The chef/owner is dedicated to food and is focussed on taste and presentation. The menu is varied with an excellent lunchtime and early evening set menu which is extremely good value. i like that they don't serve exclusively French wine and we had a lovely bottle of New Zealand Sauvignon today. The service is always friendly and unobtrusive