L’Adour: 110 Montgomery St, Syracuse, 13202 – (315) 475-7653
Upscale French. Definitely a dressy kind of place. Much of it is very high quality and wonderful, yet at times we’ve had mixed results with some dishes. Because they are posh, we have higher expectations for them.
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This is definitely a place with mixed results. I’ve heard from a reliable Syracuse native that apparently the food has been rather lackluster in quality since the owners’ divorce, though the price has remained consistently high. My wife and I have gone here twice, first with a rather positive experience, food-wise (authentic escargot was the highlight), and though the waitress was pretty friendly, we did note the indifference and overall unfriendly attitude of the maître d’, which we tried our best to not prescribe to some atavistic upscale French demeanor. However, on our second time there, we were extremely affronted by the overt discrimination in our level of service. My wife and I are young, and minorities, to which the owner and maître d’ apparently meant that we do not have very much money (which is, of course, untrue), so our table was frequently ignored (there were only three full tables in the restaurant at the time) so that the owner could personally patronize a table of presumably upper-class older white men and offer them suggestions of some of his select wines. All the while our table had not been attended to, even to refill water.
My wife and I, of course, vowed to never return.
Cabeza,
Sorry to hear that. I appreciate your plight. Indeed, we’ve stopped going there for dinner, because at those prices, it has to be killer every time, and well, it isn’t. We do still go for breakfast now and then. Their smoked salmon is excellent. Gee, I just noticed that they have the requisite bad Flash website that every upscale restaurateur is genetically unable to resist. As a web developer, I find this hilarious! Right-brainers. (shakes head)
We ran into a case somewhat similar to your bad experience at a restaurant downstate, Twist in Hyde Park. Though I’m nominally a minority, in our case it was mainly the “oh, they’re not going to drop hundreds of bucks, so I’ll be snotty”. I wrote about it in my other blog:
http://davidchu.net/wblog/index.php/2008/06/youre-twist-restaurants-best-friend-until/