Le Parvis - Laon

This place has a great location looking onto the impressive Laon Cathedral. Learning from experience in other French restaurants, we decided to go with the lunch specials. Turned out to be a good decision! The food was freshly cooked with good ingredients, very enjoyable. We ended up going for dessert because what we saw arriving at other tables looked so good! All in all a very good meal!

The descriptions on the menu were promising. Too bad they don't deliver. The free appetiser, the starters and the main course were all obviously reheated food from the freezer.

The onion soup was much too strong, but the other dishes were good and the service fast and kind. In front of the cathedral, it makes it a very nice location

Restaurant directly across from the Cathedral, you walk into what looks like a bar and you find yourself in a restaurant with a superb menu. Recommend it highly.

We arrived at 4pm in freezing fog on 3rd Jan. Laon was dead! Only Le Parvis was open. Hot chocolate lifesaver! Madame the proprietress acted as an informal Office de Tourisme, telephoned her friends and fixed us up with hotel accommodation around the corner. Brilliant! Came back for superb evening meal, delicious well cooked food, fantastic Duck Parmentier & Rum Baba, and all surrounded outside in gothic swirling freezing mist under the towering front of Laon Cathedral. A Harry Potter experience!