L'Espalier

Excellent service, excellent food. 5 Stars!

The food is always amazing and dishes always inventive. If you have lots of money or just want to celebrate a special occasion, you won’t forget your visit here. It’s really top-notch and hard to beat for nouveau French cuisine.

So, I had pretty high expecations for L’Espalier, and most of them have been met. I ordered the pan seared foie gras, which was absolutely incredible. I think the only other place that made foie at this level was Clio.

I ordered duck for the main course, though it was delicious, I felt that the flavors could be pushed further.

The cheeses were amazing, but since I don’t know much about cheese, I won’t say too much about it.

Desert was a bit too big, and felt it was fairly standard fine-dining desert… so eh..

Overall, I’ll give it four stars because the service was excellent and the foie was out of this world, everything was delicious, but doesn’t warrant five stars.

As the Phantom said, this restaurant is definitely THE break the bank special occassions/proposal location. I went there for my birthday recently and LOVED everything about this impeccable eatery. Chef Frank McClelland is amazing and his 2007 James Beard Foundation Award for Best Northeast Chef is well deserved!