Téléphone: +33385510185
Adresse: 9 rue Jean Jaures, 71700, Tournus, France
Ville: Tournus
Menu Plats: 2
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Site Web: https://hotel-de-la-paix.fr
"We’ve eaten here 2 or 3 time before and had a perfectly OK meal, so perhaps it is a bit unfair to write up our latest visit. However I’m just writing as we found it.It was a very warm evening and we’d booked for the terrace at the back of the hôtel on the edge of a small square. I ate from the 25€ menu and my wife from one at 33€. We ordered a bottle of red wine - a relatively local Mercury 1er cru Les Croichots. Unfortunately the glasses used here are fairly clumsy things with a rolled rim which don’t really allow you to fully appreciate the contents, but it was a good enough bottle.My wife’s starter was 6 snails in garlic, served in individual little “egg cups”. She found them rather lacking in garlic and a bit oily. Mine was chaource in filo pastry with a green salad. The salad dressing was rather sharp. It was a fairly normal vinaigrette (vin aigre does mean sour wine, after all) but could have done with the addition of a little honey to cut the harshness slightly; it would have gone far better with the cheese parcel then.We then had quite a wait, watching the town youth at play in the square and listening to some bad music. The waiter was working at a furious pace, but every now and again he just disappeared into the kitchen for some time, presumably waiting for the next dishes to appear at the pass. The terrace has seating for 24, but there were only about 17 people eating so it was not exactly full.Our mains eventually appeared. My wife had ordered Truite de la Petite Montagne with butter noisette sauce and almonds, and my main was Charolaise steak in a wine and shallot sauce. The trout are bred in the cold waters of the river Valouson in the Jura, and my wife said hers was cooked absolutely perfectly. However she did think the buerre noisette had a slightly greasy taste for some reason, and it didn't have the brown colour one would expect.My steak turned out to be very chewy, and although I’d been given a steak knife it was extremely difficult to cut. I’d had to put the first bit back on the plate as I just couldn’t bite through it, and although I did manage to cut a few bits and eat them it got progressively more difficult. I might have returned it, but it coincided with one of the waiter’s periods in the kitchen and when he did eventually reappear I’d gone off the idea of steak. I ate the little accompaniment of vegetables and mopped up the sauce with some bread. It’s possible that had I eaten à la carte the cut of meat might have been better, but I’m not sure I want to find out now. A three course 25€ menu is not exactly cheap anyway.My wife’s menu included cheese, but mine didn’t. When the waiter cleared the plates I said I’d wait for dessert until my wife was ready for hers. What we did not expect was to have to wait another 20 minutes or more for a small platter of three cheeses and lettuce leaf. When it did eventually arrive we’d been at the table for 3 hours. We told him we’d give desserts a miss and to bring us the addition. It had not arrived when we’d eaten the cheeses between us, so my wife went to pay inside. Another (Dutch) diner had just beaten her to it, with the same complaint about the speed of service. There was no-one there other than the waiter, who was extremely apologetic and only charged for two 25€ menus - not exactly any large reduction in truth given an inedible steak and no desserts.Our evening was not helped by it being mid-summer's eve, the evening when free music is heard on the streets throughout France. What we had not far from us were two guys - a saxophonist and a drummer. We have very wide tastes in music and certainly enjoy jazz, but two hours of someone playing with no recognisable tune accompanied by heavy-handed drumming just did not lift our spirits. People clapped every now and again, but whether it was in appreciation or because they were glad he had finished for a moment I don’t know. OK, nothing to do with La Paix, and I’m not blaming them for it. It would have been nice to have had some decent music to listen to in the long gaps between each course though.We’ve had serviceable meals here before, and my wife who loves fish would return for the fresh water trout alone. Not if the kitchen can’t get its act together though, and I’ll be interested to see other feedback."
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