This is a beautiful restaurant. The setting is intimate and does feel a trip to France in the heart of Manhattan. That said, we've had a mixed experience. The food is somewhat disappointing, the only consistently good dish seems to be the lamb. My fish was boring and seemed micro-waved, and on another trip I got the pleasant and found it very dry. If it was a little less pricey I'd take the food as it is (well maybe), but in Manhattan there are better French restaurants for this price.\r
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Our worst experience was the wine. We bought a $70 bottle; I think it was a St. Jullian? (on previous trips we had stuck to the 40 to 50 dollar range and found the wine not great, but acceptable). This wine however we couldn't drink - and we aren't that big of wine snobs. It just sat in front of us all night. We thought it was corked and the waiter did oblige us by opening a second bottle, but the first was as horrible as the second. The waiter had trouble opening both bottles, the corks seemed dry? Maybe we just found that rare bottle of wine we couldn't stand, but my guess is that the wine (as a lot) hadn't been stored correctly or something was wrong... \r
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Our warning - watch out for the wine list. Anyway, as beautiful as the restaurant is, and as much as I love dinning outside, we won't be back.\r
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