We found a
very good gourmet-restaurant in Macon. The name is Pierre and is owned by Christian and Isabelle Gaulin. The restaurant is well designed and the service professional and nice. We had
their least expensive set menu and it was really good. I would not be surprised
if they get a star in Guide Michelin soon, but they might not want that. At the moment they are awarded two
knives and forks.
The little
teasers we got to warm up was excellent and the starter based on bresaola was as
well. The main dish was lamb cooked slowly at low temperature accompanied by
perfectly cooked vegetables. It was very good. My wife, as usual, asked if she
could change the dessert to cheese. Normally cheese was an add-on to the set
menu. It was no problem and no extra charge. My dessert was copious, but I
could not resist anything. My wife could have a free choice from the cheese
trolley. As if that was not enough they came with a big selection of goodies to
have with the coffee.
There was
just one problem that the restaurant could not help. During starter a party of
four American couples entered the restaurant and made it impossible to eat,
talk or relax. They were yelling, laughing and made such noise that the rest of
the guests could not stay. The staff was apologizing, but could not tell them
to lower their voices. They instead
evacuated the rest of the guests to an inner room so the Americans were on
their own in the main restaurant. Interesting enough they did not seem to
notice that all guests were passing by their table with their wine glasses,
going somewhere else.
It is
important to say that it was not young overexcited people, but middle-aged,
well dressed normal couples, there especially the women could not talk without
screaming with a high pitch voice and were constantly laughing their heads off. It is not the first time we had had this problem with Americans in restaurants, but of all our numerous American friends we can not imagine they would behave like that. Strange?
