L'Ardoise - Meaux

This smart restaurant is located on the cathedral. We arrived at 12 without booking and a long time ago the tables were all, but completely taken. Many seemed to be regular. The selection of foods was good in the Prix Fixe menu and good value. The food we chose was really delicious and well presented. Service was good and unobtrusive. A place to return.

Our tour bus stopped in the historic part of Meaux,France for a quick lunch after our visit to the World War I Museum. We were lucky to get to L'Ardoise quickly and were treated with a table outside and an excellent lunch on a comfortable July...day. I choose a special day. I couldn't find out what it was, but knew it was scallops. I thought they were fresh. The court was wonderful. The service was excellent with a server that bravely tried to speak English. It was a great start to our French WWI Tour.

Nice meal. Great menu, very well executed. Would recommend. Would come back. Visits with family. Mi cuit a chocolat dessert was amazing.

On a day trip to Meaux, my husband and I came across this lovely restaurant. We really enjoyed how welcome we felt immediately upon arrival and liked the ambiance of this restaurant as well. The menu is on a chalk board and so it was...shown to us promptly after we were seated. My husband chose a hamburger and I chose the fish special. The service was prompt and friendly and we both really enjoyed our meals. We even commented that it was one of our best meals on our trip to France. The prices were reasonable too. We feel very fortunate to have experienced a dining experience at L'Ardoise and would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone visiting the Meaux area.

L'Ardoise is a nice enough venue and while the food was reasonable there were a few touches that left me feeling hard to award it more than an average rating, so here's where I felt it let down: Two of our three for lunch had...the warm baked cheese with salad which was fine the third went for the unusual dish of poached egg with fois gras this definitely didn't work for me, the fois gras was barely noticeable and the egg only cooked on the surface and very watery uncooked underneath. Mains came two burgers and one duck with apricot sauce, which was OK and the duck nicely cooked. The burgers ordered medium were well done so pretty dry, the roblechon sheese was nice and the fries also cooked well, but no side or accompanying salad made it rather plain and thus 24 euros for a lack lustre burger and entrée was not good value. The drinks were definitely over priced french beer 5 euros? A glass of champagne 7 euros was the dearest we've found anywhere except a Michelin starred restaurant and Michelin starred this is not! The wine list lacked a choice of carafe or house wine and the rest of the list well over priced eg 34 euros for a Beaujolais is around 17 euros ove the top.......the rest similarly so. Service was fine, polite and generally without fault Overall view OK but overpriced across the board