L'Alliance - Amboise

Joli cadre et bonne expérience culinaire. Tout était très bon avec un seul petit bémol pour le plat adulte qui était moins copieux que le plat du menu enfant... cherchez l'erreur... ce qui a motivé le 4 étoiles. J'y reviendrai si je retourne à Amboise.

Non -French speaking people are not welcome in this restaurant. We arrived at 7:15, ordered our food and by 9:20 we had not received our first course but at 9:30 we were presented with our main course with no explanation. We had inquired as to the status of our first course at 8:45 and the waitress just shrugged her shoulders and said she did not know understand English . Suffice it to say, we left euros to pay for our two glasses of wine and walked out very hungry. They made no attempt to understand us. We were the first people in the restaurant. Many other customers came in after us and were served their full orders in a normal timely fashion. We cannot comment on the food because we never received anything that we ordered. Non-French speaking people should NEVER go there. I rarely speak badly of restaurants but feel that people need to be warned about this horrible experience. Amen!

Quiet location on the Rue Joyeuse this is one of the few really good restaurants in Amboise open on a Monday night. We were there last week and had a delicious meal in the garden. Most tables were full outside and even inside was quite busy, not many tourists - most were French. I had the salmon main course and my husband had a filet steak which was cooked exactly as he asked for. The cheese trolley was amazing - fantastic selection. The service was good, did not hurry you but were not slow either and overall the food and wine were really good, a little more expensive than some but definitely worth it.

Despite the fact that there were very few diners it took a very long time to get our food. While I recognize that one of the pleasures of dining on vacation in Europe is that things move at a very leisurely pace, this was just slow. In the server's defense, she seemed to be the only one working, and that might have been the case in the kitchen too. She seemed very stressed out or distracted. We weren't in any rush, but it seemed remarkably slow. The food was good and the hostess was warm and welcoming.

This restaurant was close to our Hotel so we booked a table. We did not need to bother as there were only around 10 couples on a Saturday night which left the ambience a little flat. Having said that the food was very well cooked and presented. We enjoyed a 4 course meal with a great cheese selection and a good variety of local wines.