Francois Gilles
Google
This is how I felt. This place is an exercise at excellence and in many ways it achieves and delivers that. Service is overall excellent, but I felt it was rarely personal, which you could expect at this level in a small room, and in my case there were also small slips you would not expect in a two star place, like where a cheese comes from or why red is or isn’t the de facto pairing with cheese, duh.
The food delights, but to me there was a bit too much sophistication that at some point stops to elevate the dishes…like with three distinct herb sauces seasoning one of the starters, fantastic but for my simple palate and fork, too much.
My last impression is that for something that costs a multiple of any really nice restaurant, some of the magic is missing. We entered a minutely organised choreography but looking around I just did not feel it. I attribute this to where the place is located too…
It is just me, but hey all the hard work behind such a place still deserves at least a 4…and we did enjoy our night in fairness.