Restaurant at the end of the Universe, Calais

After a short trip to France we arrived, son and I, at Calais Ferry terminal early evening and hungry. Went through check-in and parked in a queue and looked around for food. Didn't see a lot. About 100 yards away was a light so we went towards it. Above the door was the international symbol for food (a knife and fork or couteau et fourchette as the locals say). Inside there were a few toilets and a machine that dispensed coca cola and bags of crisps. So much for the international sign.

After some mooching and grumbling we were just about to buy some fast food when we noticed a small advert on top of the food dispensing machine. It was in french and was advertising a restaurant. It gave directions to the restaurant so we set off to find it. We walked under an overpass and over a car park. We came to a building that didn't look like anything except offices but there was a sign at one of the doors saying restaurant. We went past an armed guard who asked to see our passports and boarding cards then finally up 3 flights of stairs we found a 150 cover restaurant which was..... empty.

A lady was cleaning forlornly in the corner and there was counter where we found a good range of food and settled on roast confit of duck, french beans, some interesting potatoes plus wine and a cheese course. €7-50 each. I engaged the serveuse in french saying "Bet you don't get many english in here - it's hard to find". Charmingly she replied " Actually we don't get many french in here either".

Nice meal but hard to find.