Au Plaisir Des Mets

We ate here on a Friday 18 months ago and recognized some of the customers. this time we took the menu du jour and felt that the standard slipped. no choices, starter a cheese crispy with salat (ok,) main a steak hache (aka rindfleisch burger. that probably didn't pass pattern in mcdo,) that was alarming pink in the middle, unpresenable pud. the service was also only average. Then why should we be close again?

Previous reviews have 1 star that was a bit hard, although I understand why. 5 stars are also not correct. small, pleasant restaurant in the small village. decoration was clean. Eating was in order, but nothing to write home. coq au van had no sose, but...Magned delicate, fab home made chips. chocolate mousse beautiful. red sancerre super! would I come back? no hurry, but would not avoid it. there were five more tables. waitress friendly, but they need french. I had worse, but much better.

After visiting the chemin des dames we have made ourselves to bruyeres and laon a few kilometers further on looking for something to eat. the inner of the au plaisir des mets (in bruyeres not laon itself) is much more intelligent than the outer suggestions...as I discovered after I had asked my way for a table. beautiful tablecloth, pleasant ambiente, stand the technique toilets. we enjoyed our meal, freshly prepared with decent ingredients.

We visited this local restaurant on the strength of the recommendation of our host. big mistake. it was the worst meal we've ever been served. Forget that we were driving 5.5 hours over France on the road to home. forget that it took them an hour to bring our ancestors. And that when we asked if there was a problem, in view of a neighbor family who had come after us already had received their main, said the garçon (which may not have been older than 15) it was the salat niçoise who took a long time because “it had been many different fresh ingredients”. When the food finally arrived, it was unusable. I don't mean good. I mean, they didn't feed her dog. the much anticipated fresh Niçoise salad was completely dosen. thunfisch tinted. soggy green beans. flaccid salat. the main thing was worse. they arrived surprisingly fast and heated the steam alarmingly to a dead way for the microwave in which they had been boiled. I had laughs en croute. or so I was told. it was like the signature of my man steak galette, from deep frost. both dishes were dry, the meat and fish inedible, the sauce was thrown out of a package and with sugar, the sweet in a customs of her sorry life microwave, without a milligram remaining nutritious. my man and I found ourselves out embarrassing only eating to realize that we couldn't even do that. we are not smokey eaters. we were thrilled for something simple, basic, but that was worse than the worst medium-of-nowhere pub menu we have ever eaten to brasserie. the restaurant fascinates itself as demanding, but the decor is a mix between creepy kitsch (completely with grandfather clock) and soulless “modern” it says everything. brightly colored aperitifs are offered at the arrival, which are served with fruity. none of this would have been thanks to us that we would even have abandoned the terrible service for half a decent meal, not because of the insulting bad food. the only things we ate were the frozen mini-cabattas. whatever they do, they do not go to this restaurant.

Stayed at a local Gîte and needed somewhere for dinner our host recommended this restaurant. As we have a small dog we needed outside seating, to our surprise we were able to take the dog in which was great. To start we had the smoked...trout and the goats cheese salad followed by the “Pig Board” and a Ray (fish) fillet and a creme brûlée to finish. All the food was good and we would recommend. The waiter spoke no English and our French isn’t that good but he helped out and was a good guy.