Beaune

Beaune, a charming French town in Burgundy, is famed for its wine, historic Hospices de Beaune, and dishes like coq au vin and escargot cooked in garlic and parsley butter.

Cafe de l'Hotel de Beaune

Cafe de l'Hotel de Beaune

5 rue Samuel Legay | Next to the Bistro of L'Hotel de Beaune, 21200, Beaune, France

Cafés • Français • Européen • Végétarien


"The Bistro of the Hotel de Beaune has a terrific location in the center of Beaune and over recent years the interest of the menu has increased. However, because of a recent contretemps involving wine, I have to recommend that people should avoid the restaurant.I have stayed at the Hotel de Beaune with my wife probably about 8 times over the past 10 or 15 years and usually eat at the Bistro once or twice during the stay. On this occasion, for the first time ever, I asked if we could drink a bottle of wine that we brought with us. Earlier in the day, on a visit to producer Albert Grivault, he opened an exceptional old bottle, a 1985 Clos des Perrieres Meursault, and invited us to take the rest of the bottle to have with dinner. I explained to the Bistro that this was an exceptional occasion--we could not after all keep the bottle to take home as it had been opened--but they refused to make an exception to their policy. Never mind that we were staying at the hotel, never mind that we were old and frequent clients of both hotel and Bistro, it was "pas possible." The owner absolutely refused to allow us to have the bottle, even though I offered to pay for a bottle of Bourgogne from the list and just drink the Clos des Perrieres instead.While other people are unlikely to have this particular problem, the lack of respect for the clientele, the wish to force everyone to buy a bottle from the list, the inability to recognize faithful clients, suggests a hostile attitude to which the only possible response can be to go somewhere else. This is an extraordinary attitude given that the Bistro is something of a hangout for local winemakers. We will stay at another hotel and not patronize the Bistro de l'Hotel in the future.(All was not lost: we left the Bistro--which was by no means full--and went round the corner to L'Ecrit Vin, where everyone took a great interest in the wine (special glasses were produced for the great wine) and we had a very nice meal; the wine was extraordinary.)"