Comments on: Review: Aux Lyonnais

By: myyc

myyc — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:32:03 +0000

oh no — i just booked a table for sept having 2nd thoughts now…!

By: Forest

Forest — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:27:49 +0000

I was just talking about Aux Lyonnais with friends last night and grumbling that when I went a while back the experience (esp for the $) just wasn’t good enough to get me back. Looks like it’s not just me who feels that way…

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:30:53 +0000

Agree with David… this situation is the anti-french. Aren’t they supposed to get all huffy when you WANT to order? I thought waitpeople had a natural aversion to work? Me = confus-ed.

PS – You don’t enjoy eating your fish with chocolate cake? Pfffff.

By: Beth

Beth — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:51:32 +0000

Interesting. This is exactly the feeling I had at Thomas Keller’s Bouchon in LA. It wanted to be French but it had a really hard time finding out how to manage the American ideal of turning over tables and the French ideal of resto.

By: An American in London

An American in London — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:41:00 +0000

I had dinner at Aux Lyonnais in 2006, when it was at the peak of its hype, and even with decent service, I thought it was 100 euros badly spent because I didn’t think the food was 25-euros-a-main good.

I agree with David’s comment that the servers you encountered at Aux Lyonnais weren’t so much “American” in style as much as in target (because even in America, I’d think that sort of pressurized, rushed service would be considered rude, and I think of service in the US as pretty good).

With its location near the Bourse, maybe Aux Lyonnais gets a lot of impatient business types?

By: Steve Maricopa

Steve Maricopa — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:16:10 +0000

“Waitress” in Paris? It had to be down hill from there.

By: David

David — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:48:28 +0000

I’ve noticed this happening a lot lately; waiters not giving you barely a moment to look at the menu before racing to take your order. I don’t know if it’s something they do to Americans, who are always said to be in a hurry, or what, but I find it really disconcerting. The last time it happened to me, the waitress actually got mad that we weren’t ready to order literally seconds after we sat down.