Alléchant - Ithaca

A gem of a restaurant with lovely staff and a rockstar kitchen. We go often for brunch and not often enough for dinner! A very cozy atmosphere with well-executed classics and local ingredients. Hands down our favorite breakfast spot in town from luscious scones to divine duck omelets. The service is excellent, and the owner Matt is especially welcoming and remembered us after just one visit.

Allechant is inspiring. It is by far the best restaurant in Ithaca. It is always a peaceful and elegant dining experience with genuine attention from the staff. The food is beautiful, thoughtful, delicious and the menu changes frequently enough to make each visit exciting. The dishes are colorful, full of fascinating and complimentary flavors and gorgeously assembled. From the wine selection to the stunning fresh desserts, everything is a treat and perfectly paired. Dietary restrictions: The servers are very knowledgeable about the food and they always have a variety of options that are gluten free and willing to make modifications or replace something with a gluten free alternative.

The food was delicious and the service was very attentive. Great great great

The atmosphere? Beautiful. Aesthetic. The employees? Just as much and they 're very kind and attentive. Fills up your water, walks around and serves that OJ and stuff. The food. Jesus. Why? How does this place have 5 stars? It literally takes an hour to get your food. I 'm guessing they got one home kitchen back there and a chef that has a trust fund because he ain 't worried about anything. And when you finally get it? I wish I had pictures but I was fuming. I just took a few bites and left. I got the chicken sausage, toast, egg, with some caramelized onion and ginger sauce. Now that sauce? That one is legit. Real caramelized onions. Those are literally impossible to find because it takes an hour of nonstop stirring to make a thin pan of it at low heat. The flavor of the sauce? Not bad. It 's a novelty. Got a ginger bite to it. Now. The meat, toast, and eggs, were the most pitiful diner food I ever ate. Perhaps I expected more due to the decor but absolutely zero flavor. The toast and a spread of butter was some kind of dark rye bread. The egg? No flavor. No salt, no pepper, no runny yolk either so don 't assume it was a creative choice. The meat? Well they had none so... Had it swapped. The bacon? Smoked bacon my bum. Nothing special about it but it WAS cooked well. But absolutely unremarkable. Oh and the roasted potatoes. Too hard and dry on random sides, felt like I was eating survival food I made in a tin can. I will NEVER come back here to get mediocre diner food from a schizophrenic chef, just for the aesthetic of the restaurant, ever again. Good job on the caramelized onions sauce though. The flavor was mid at best but I appreciate the hard work that was put in.

Went for brunch a while back with some friends, solid brunch spot compared to all other spots in the area, good food, menu and options. Cute aesthetic especially when it’s nice enough to sit outside, peaceful, but nothing extraordinary to taste.