Chez Henry - Arnay-le-Duc

Warm atmosphere kitchen very well. The waitress wasn't comfortable. Otherwise she was nice.

A nice step! Simple meals but home cooking. A good address for lunch. Every time I come to Arnay le Duc.

Warm atmosphere, very good food. The waitress was not at ease. Otherwise she was nice.

We stopped to escape the heatwave and found a warm welcome and a cool restaurant. The restaurant may not have kerb appeal but it is in a very old stone building, hence it being cool to eat in on a hot summer's day! The Menu du Jour was great value, home cooked and delicious. Potato salad entrée, main course porc with Porto sauce and tagliatelle The cheeses were local and tasted amazing. 3 courses including a small pitcher of wine each and coffee 13.50 euros.

We took a chance, didn't book ahead and liked the look of this lovely old village and found this place had a room to sleep all four of us, with a little private bathroom for €60, good linen and towels, terrible road noise. We ate dinner there, and opted for the menu of the evening. The flavours were good, terrine tasty, fish in a lovely sauce, my sons chicken flavourful, and the chef catered for our newly vegetarian 14 year old. Great cheese selection for the cheese course, and I loved the chocolate mousse, and my husband's dessert was also fresh and delicious. The best part was the probably long suffering waitress, we loved her. She had her patience tested with the arrival of the husband and wife owners to noisily drink copious amounts of wine and argue politics in French with a friend. They followed this session with their dinner, ordered ages after the kitchen had closed. She seemed to like us so we got the pick of any cheese we would like form a fabulous cheese board, and she opened another local lovely smelly one for us to try as well (I think the cheese we ate alone was worth the cost of the dinner in Australian terms). We gave her a little tip and as we were going upstairs she practically hugged us, shaking our hands. Later on that night the owners had a fairly loud domestic including shoving and yelling in French. Maybe they need to look at their business model, a shame to waste such good and expensive renovations in a quaint and picturesque medieval town.