Jour De Marche - Speisekarte

"Visited Saturday dinner. Had the 70e tasting menu. Service: Very slow. 3.5 hours for the meal which ruined the experience. Seemed like the kitchen was struggling as other tables were also getting frustrated. Waiters very friendly but service wasn’t at the standard you’d expect food kept part arriving or would arrive then the waiter would take it back to the kitchen. Very slow to replace water made worse by tiny carafes. Didn’t pour the water for us apart from once (where the carafe had been so overfilled the waiter was then struggling to pour without spilling). Every dish was explained nicely in French (they did kindly offer English also) but just too slow. We waited ages between some courses. Needs more polish? Silly little things like bringing some butter for the bread (we had admittedly asked) but then no knife for the butter. Or leaving half a plate of bread on a shelf in the restaurant by the wine bottles for half the meal not sure how why it ended up there! Food: Some very tasty dishes, some very mixed. Presentation very spectacular for some dishes. 1. Mackerel starter was very beautiful (see photo) and tasty. 2. Ceps delicious and pretty; highlight of the meal. Smoky and spectacular presentation with a cloche of smoke. Aubergine delicious with slight miso hint. 3. Tuna oh the tuna. It took soooo long to arrive. We sensed they’d forgotten us as the manager started eying up our table and looking a bit concerned. What arrived made us feel sad for the tuna no presentation, thrown onto a slate, and completely overcooked in parts. Photo was as it arrived. Grey and dry and shreds rather than the lovely slices you’d expect. They shouldn’t have served this. We sent it straight back and it was replaced with a properly cooked version tasty but not mind blowing. Bad service example they took the slate of tuna away but left the main plate with the garnish sauce on the table for the ten mins while they re cooked the tuna. Then they decided to take the plate away and give us a new one they should have just cleared it fully in one go. 4. Veal also took a while to come. Weird presentation we nicknamed it “Size matters” giant plate, tiny ball in the corner of an anchovy jelly like substance. We couldn’t help but think of a stock pot…then a bamboo steamer on side of the veal and mushrooms which were smoked and tasty. Waiter poured a mushroom sauce onto the plate over the stock pot but we were expecting it to melt; the stock pot was cold to the point of being unpleasant when mixed with the warm sauce and warm veal. The temperatures weren’t pleasant for a main and it spoilt what was lovely veal. A note on smoke the mackerel was torched. The ceps came smoked under a cloche and the veal was smoked in pine we love smoked food but for a tasting menu to have 3 5 courses with smoke flavours felt overload. 5. Black lemon visually beautiful. Tasty zingy flavours but too much cream for our liking (and we love cream). Would have preferred much less cream. It got to the point where it was just mouthfuls of whipped cream. Value: If the service had been better, it may have justified 3*. The food needed improvement to justify more. We were going to ask for money off the bill given we had to send the tuna back and the slow service, but the manager had already acknowledged this and charged us for the lower priced 55e menu. Perhaps fairer price at this level but wouldn’t return sadly. Disappointed overall as had so much promise and some really tasty flavours but not consistent enough and let down by very slow service."