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The location of this restaurant is great - the outdoor pedestrian street atmosphere really makes you feel like you're in Europe. I guess all the smoking does too. (biggest downer, but something I was expecting).
I feel like it's hard to find cheap French food, so to compare this place to an expensive French restaurant would be a bit unfair.
The best things would be the appetizers and the desserts however. The escargot are quite good - not salty, have a lot of parsley in them so they end up tasting a lot like calamari. The French Onion Soup was also really good (and was ordered by my husband, who until we ate here, declared that he didn't like French Onion Soup at all).
For mains, our table ordered the duck (tasty and comes with yummy potatoes, but way too greasy), hangar steak (this tasted horrible - almost a burnt flavor running through it), filet mignon (didn't try this but the eater said it was good), and this chicken stew with tomato stuff (tasty, but the tomato flavor got really boring after a short while, so my sister didn't finish it).
For dessert we got the pear tart (good apparently), and the creme brulee (delicious - it was the winner on the table).
The wait staff were very good, and the ambiance, other than the smoking was really nice (we were also entertained by a street performer singing French songs).
I think my highlight however, was my 11 month old nephew hooking into the escargot! He loved it!! Very sophisticated baby ;-)
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