This restaurant has really gone downhill...so sad. It is under new management/new chef and you can tell.
Recently I had a huge craving for L'Avenue's moules frites and escargot; they did them the best in the city hands down! After a dinner at a different nearby French Restaurant, I was telling friends how the food at L'Avenue was so much better, so we planned a dinner for the following week.
Ordered the moules frites and escargot of course - The mussels were fishy and just gross.. my friend and i shared a bowl and could hardly finish them. Bleck. The escargot as well were in this amazing terragon garlic sauce previously. Now they're just covered in cheese, which I normally would be fine with being a cheese-aholic, but this dish was so good it didn't need to be covered up with cheese. What a shame.
Their wine list is supposedly "extensive" but there was really not a great selection, that is unless you want to spend $80+. They really need to have some good value table wines.
I will say their french onion soup is still decent and I would go back just for this dish which is the reason I'm giving them a 3 star instead of 4.