Hôtel-Bar de l'Étoile — Restaurant in Beaune

Hotel-Bar-Brasserie l'Etoile is very typical and idiosynchratic, a mix of "'Allo'Allo" and Fawlty Towers but could also be a scene from a Chabrol black and white film about mysterious goings on in a small French town....||The hotel is central in Nuits St Georges, no dedicated parking but pay and display opposite - it is shoppers' parking so limited to 2hrs but no charge after 6pm so after 4pm 2Euros will get you through til 9am next day. The bar and restaurant on the ground floor is a big bonus if you don't want to roam the rainy streets in December looking for something other than a pizza takeaway. The food was good, too much for me to eat, and very local (snails, pressed ham terrine with parsley, beef bourguignon, quiche with strong cheese & ham). Splendid choice of local wine for every pocket. Guest artisan beers every month, some VERY strong indeed. Breakfast was good. Our room was up in the eaves and barely decorated with woodchip and ill-matched wallpaper. It was a shame more wasn't made of the sloping ceiling and curved walls and a large pegged beam. Furnished with second-hand (?) varnished furniture. The bed was OK but sheets and blankets rather than duvet, which in the winter I just don't understand. The bar was full of regulars with a works outing, some Yorkie puppies running around and the owners bickering shamelessly and entertainingly behind the bar and in the kitchen. With not a lot of money spent on it this place could be really great, full of charm and in a...

Hotel-Bar-Brasserie l'Etoile is very typical and idiosynchratic, a mix of "'Allo'Allo" and Fawlty Towers but could also be a scene from a Chabrol black and white film about mysterious goings on in a small French town....||The hotel is central in Nuits St Georges, no dedicated parking but pay and display opposite - it is shoppers' parking so limited to 2hrs but no charge after 6pm so after 4pm 2Euros will get you through til 9am next day. The bar and restaurant on the ground floor is a big bonus if you don't want to roam the rainy streets in December looking for something other than a pizza takeaway. The food was good, too much for me to eat, and very local (snails, pressed ham terrine with parsley, beef bourguignon, quiche with strong cheese & ham). Splendid choice of local wine for every pocket. Guest artisan beers every month, some VERY strong indeed. Breakfast was good. Our room was up in the eaves and barely decorated with woodchip and ill-matched wallpaper. It was a shame more wasn't made of the sloping ceiling and curved walls and a large pegged beam. Furnished with second-hand (?) varnished furniture. The bed was OK but sheets and blankets rather than duvet, which in the winter I just don't understand. The bar was full of regulars with a works outing, some Yorkie puppies running around and the owners bickering shamelessly and entertainingly behind the bar and in the kitchen. With not a lot of money spent on it this place could be really great, full of charm and in a...

A very not pleasant waitress. We came around 11:40 to have drinks and maybe some snacks. She announced that the kitchen will be opened at 12 pm. We did not mind just to have drinks. Another waiter took our order and then she came and start blaming us that we are taking the place and do not eat. It is strange because she said we cannot do it first and then blame us in it. I would say it is better to have a table in...