L ECU D OR - Le Puy-en-Velay

Terrible. really terrible. we ordered the 18.5€ menu. we first have a paste that was simply acceptable. but after that. disgusting. the cassoulet was completely terrible, a small bowl oily fat with tasteless beans, 2 mini pieces meat (fat) and 3cm sausage. we took the pichet of white wine: we tasted and left untouched. our neighbours also ordered the pichet of white, same reaction there: faces of total gross. pichet of red was ok. the dessert is not worth mentioning. the kerl throws a liquid fruit syrup from a plastic bottle over a yogurt and there. it is a total scandal! it was halloween at night yes: a total nightmare. Last night we spent only 7€ more in the restaurant next to him, au jardin de la tour: this is the place you should go. amazing price / quality. Thank you later.

Eat very well. All right, all right. good service. nice menu and the dishes we tried all were good. just a little expensive for what they deliver. somehow was a very pleasant dinner and when I come back to le puy, I will be back.

Excellent kitchen. it's good to go there when they pass le puy. 4.7 in google and rating is accurate. the staff is very friendly and offers good service

Great fixed price menu at 16 euros for two courses, and we couldn't have eaten more. I enjoyed a starter of warm goat's cheese salad followed by whole baked trout with almonds, both lovely, while my partner enjoyed his meltingly tender pork knuckle with Puy...lentils. Great ambience in a crypt-like room with vaulted ceiling and interesting murals. Friendly service. Excellent value.

Everyone in the restaurant seemed to take the amazingly reasonable 18-euro menu of the day, served in the evening as well. There were more interesting sounding, more expensive menus, but we were tired after a long day's drive and wanted to make it quick. Nice...amuse-bouche of tiny pieces of fresh melon topped with a peach mousse and fresh basil. Mmm. Even this basic menu had four or five choices. We had Le Puy lentils topped with duck prosciutto, and a spring roll filled with roquefort and fresh vegs, the latter better than the first. They didn't do enough to make the lentils interesting. Mains were veal in a Marengo sauce with olives and tomato, and ballotine de poulet stuffed with ham, cheese, and mushrooms in a curry cream sauce. Desserts, which I can't remember as I write this, were good. Service was friendly and excellent. We were the second table to arrive, and we reconfirmed what we had told the person who had taken our phone reservation, namely, that we'd like to finish our meal in no more than 90 minutes. And they respected that request, despite having a restaurant filled with customers on a Monday evening. The vaulted room with charmingly painted walls did not seem oppressively noisy to us though crowded. Tables are well-separated. No obnoxious music. Though the restaurant is very good as-is, the food does not make a big enough statement. I have a feeling they can and will do better given time.