eating out at la grange

Eating out is an expensive business, so we want to make sure our clients feel the characteristics of a good restaurant.

Normally you only notice what good restaurants do so well when you experience the same things going wrong in bad restaurants ..... so far the worse thing that happened to us is not being able to serve more covers!.

We always offer an unhurried social experience, with plenty of time to interact with your dining companions. There’s something about the restaurant setting that encourages relaxed conversation and enjoyment of food and wine.

We are appropriately busy,  the tables are spaced far enough apart that you don’t feel you are being eavesdropped in your conversation; the noise level is again quite right due to the limited covers and our music often colours the atmosphere on a quite night.

Service is a key issue, good service is unselfconscious, it’s unfussy and it’s appropriately attentive, staff is not hovering around, anxious to interrupt at the slightest nod, but surely clients do not have to wait long to get another bottle of fizzy water. 

As in so many walks of life, timing is everything and we feel that we have a major effect on the success of an evening by getting the timing right... so we are focused just until our good italian expresso is served. 

A good restaurant is one where the wine list is imaginative, with a well chosen selection of wines, and where the pricing isn’t too rapacious.  Many restaurants buy just from one merchant. As a result, the list has a rather formulaic feel, with a few hits and lots of misses. It’s rare to find a restaurant where much thought and work has gone into the wine list where wines have been carefully sourced from a variety of suppliers; of course much in consideration we take the ski resort we work in ...  The glassware also matters: even a humble house wine can taste much more interesting out of proper generous-sized glasses. 

Most of all, we would like to tell that we are passionate about food and wine, and our primary goal is excellence, not making a fortune.