Au Revoir - San Andreas

For many years, au revoir is one of my restaurants for French food. it supplies in the regular good food with matching service. but in the other night the service was at best different. I understand that many companies are underoccupied, and it seemed that au revoir was the night we visited, but if they are aware of being short-circuited and the tables should expect much longer than normal waiting times, depended that to the guests. a good way to turn the guests against them is to be silent when a restaurant has an omitted night. the communication and the offer of a free desserts/appetitor/let can go a long way to enjoy an otherwise bad situation. when the food was taken out, one of the soups was hardly warm, and it was returned to the kitchen to be heated. the returned suppe was somewhat warmer than the original, but not much. the rest of the dinners were average. due to a malfunction in the kitchen during eating, the dining room filled with smoke and doors needed to open. again, nothing was mentioned by the personal until we asked. overall a disappointing evening.

Overall our culinary experience was good, but not at the same level we have long lived. the suppe of the day, hummerbisque, was best questionable. it tasted more like Butternuss-Quesh as lobster.

Beautiful time and good eating celebrate two birthdays.

It was a cool night and the waiter kept the front door open and it was unpleasant. the food was well prepared and tasty; excellent steak and lamb frame. a lot of portioning.

After eating there several times, we hadn't been there in several years, since my father passed away. We took my mother there for dinner last Friday night and on walking in immediately recognized differences. The French owners used to greet people, but they weren't there. It was fairly empty and quiet. It was chilly inside. We now assume that they owners sold the venue. Overall, the food was below average. Since when in a French restaurant do you get aioli served with your bread rather than butter. I asked for butter to be brought to the table. The mussels my wife ordered were not bad, but my appetizer...my tarte appetizer was disappointing, with the pastry very thick and moist, not flaky, and pears not fresh, the gorgonzola sparse, the walnuts candied, not plain. My Mom's onion soup was thick, overloaded with cheese, and not the finer, more delicate soup they used to serve. My wife's hanger steak was thin, not very tasty, and not the best cut of meat. Her lavender fries were not bad. My boeuf bourguinon was very average...a thick mess that was over-seasoned with herbs...not fine cooking at all. My Mom had the St. Jacques as a main...the scallops were OK, but overly-drowned in their baked cheese with little flavoring. The creme brulee' we shared was nothing special. This restaurant used to be very good, and great value for the price. On a scale of 1-10 of French restaurants(I used to travel to France for business twice a year over a 25 year period) this restaurant was probably a 7.5-8. Right now I'd rank it around a 3. We were extremely disappointed and will certainly not return. Our meal, with one bottle of an OK B&G wine, not great, came to $180. We tipped well, because of the service, but the food was truly not worth it. The few photos on the website must be carryovers from how it use to look, and don't reflect what this place is today. I'm sad to have to write this review, but I need to be honest.