I went here for the first time and I was impressed. When I mentioned it to my mom... she gasped and said "oh Expensive..." and that she hoped the atmosphere was not going to be all snooty.
Neither preconception was true. In fact I think this restaurant may suffer a bit from misconceptions or assumptions based on word of mouth. Not sure.
The price range for entree's is ~28 to $40 - something you can easily find at the Keg. If you get an appetizer AND dessert AND a bottle of wine, sure the price per person starts getting up there.... but all of that is optional.
All in all I was very happy with everything. The food was good. They split our appetizer onto two plates as we just wanted to share one (rather than us picking off each others which was nice). There was no attitude or anything like that... everyone was very friendly, chatty even. The atmosphere was the opposite of the snooty French stereotype. I really enjoyed my visit and I will be back... I'm sad it has been there for 37 years and I'm just finding it now.
My first time having a Soufflé or Sweetbread (I honestly thought the later was a dessert, lol) So I got to try both and was pleasantly surprised both times. I can't wait to go back and try the Chateaubriand Bouquetière with a fellow fan of beef.
Don't let reviews tossing out $3600 as a price range fool you - you'd have to work really really hard to do that here. If you go the Keg and order 2 steaks with appy's you'll spend the same... try the Chateaubriand here instead... I'm betting you'll be very glad you did.