We passed by this nice restaurant by coincidence, and spontaneously decided to include a…read morestar-experience to complete our holiday in the Alsace.
The prices are comparable to the prices in Belgian *-restaurants. But the approach was quite different. Less 'chique'.
Although the quality and taste of our five dishes and accompanying wines all ranged between good and excellent, nothing was absolutely extraordinary. It is worth noticing that our five course menu (in which the chef decides what you eat) mostly comprised simple and cheap products. This is ok if the coursesare extraordinary, but - as already mentioned - this was not the case. E.g. one of the two main dishes was an ordinary stew with common vegetables. Excellent taste but not what you would expect for the prices paid. On their signature dish, an egg in an egg, they use truffle of extremely poor quality (sense and smell do not indicati that it is truffle). We had two veggie courses, two fish courses and a dessert, apparently meat dishes were reserved for the other tables.
In the five course menu you also receive four accompanying wines. The glasses they pour out are very small (+/- 7 cl). And after you have finished your wine, they take your glass away, even if your course is not finished. Maybe this is in accordance with French etiquette, but the experience was shocking for me. In all Belgian quality restaurants they do not take glasses away during the course and they refill wine glasses (certainly when they only start with half a glass) when you choose for accompanying wines.
As the quality of the food and wine were - overall - very good, it is quite harsh to give 2*. But this was the first *-experience after which I was thinking that the price of 130 € pp was stongly exaggerated. 80 € would have been a more correct price taken into account the wines and quality of the ingredients.
We left with the feeling that this restaurant is too much focused on maximizing their business profits.
