Saint-Bon-Tarentaise
L'Ecorce

L'Ecorce

Aspen Lodge Rue Sainte Blondine, 73120, Courchevel, France, Saint-Bon-Tarentaise

Thé • Vin • Café • Poulet


"It 's a concept, not a restaurant! At only 6pm, and on looking around the empty restaurant, the maitre d ' had to admit begrudgingly that he had space. But perhaps he knew that he had table bookings for 8pm and knew how slow the service is...in his restaurant. We ordered drinks and food. The iced tea turned out to be a small bottle of peach flavoured drink, served warmish and without ice. The house white was appropriately dry. The starters arrived eventually. The soupe du moment (vegetable) was OK, but not special. The Caesar Salad was not a Caesar Salad it was a pretty salad with thinly sliced root vegetables, and it was topped with some good chunks of slightly warm chicken breast, but a Caesar Salad has a precise definition and this was nowhere close. We sat staring at our empty plates for a long time while various clusters of new guests were seated and argued with the staff about whether they had to go to the supermarket to buy their own vodka. Finally, the main courses came. The chicken dish was definitely not hot the time we were waiting had obviously not been spent heating anything. The cheeseburger was probably the worst I have ever seen I can only assume it was made with contempt and hatred. The meat was OK, although cooked rather too thoroughly. But the bun (artfully dusted in a variety of seeds) had been toasted to within an inch of stale you could bang it on the table and get a reassuring clunk. And the cheese? Here, in the centre of meltable French cheeses there were two small squares of packaged sliced muck toasted onto the bun and completely dead. On the positive side, the burger came with a very small number of chips in an arty pot. Although not overly expensive by local standards (this meal cost 76 Euros) it was very definitely not worth the money. All I can say is that the place was warm and somewhere to be for two and a half hours. Note that the restaurant is now trading as being in Rue de L 'Aiguille du Fruit, but it 's the same place."