Auberge le Renard'Eau — Restaurant in Dijon

First of all, the Auberge is under new management, and the name has been changed. It is now called Auberge Le Renard'Eau. There is a huge banner hanging across the front of the building, New Management. Their new internet site is still under construction, and it's auberge-renardeau.fr. ||||the new managers, young and ambitious people, are making some changes to the hotel for the good. The hotel is a strong 3-star hotel, so patrons/guests expecting to find a Hilton or Marriott type room need not book here, but you will find a nice hotel, clean rooms, with those extras in place that are expected to be in a 3-star hotel. ||||The hotel is unique, very old, full of character, or "quaint" as some say. Its easy to see how an old "Inn" was rebuilt into a good hotel, as many items from older times are still there, like a fireplace in each of the public rooms ground level, antiques decorating the walls. If you enjoy older places you will find this a marvelous place, as there is so nuch to see and explore in the various rooms. The original wooden beams are stil in place performing their duty for 3-400 years now. ||||The rooms - each room is different, and have names. Our room had a 4-poster double bed with ceiling, and the room was large enough for the two of us, and sported also a couch/hide-a-bed for a child. The mattress was good and firm, not well worn, and the bedding typical French with sheets and wool blankets (no comforters). Our room had good free WiFi receiption, a nice flat screen TV, and was well lighted. The bathroom had a bath/shower, good lighting, and it's own electrical space heater that worked perfectly. The hotel is located on what one could call a main street, but a main street in Beze, a small village, means that most of the time there is no traffic, and we saw absolutely no truck traffic at all as the roads coming to town are departmental roads. I.E., it was very quiet at night. If you are a light sleeper, ask for a room facing the inside of the property (back) of the building. ||||||The restaraunt - is in a glassed in area on the back side of the building, and also has a fire place. With warm weather there is also coverd and uncovered seating outside the glass partitions, so it is still quite and one can enjoy their meal. The food we saw and tried was tpical to Bourgonia, and steaks and most meats were grilled over an open fire. Quite yummy. The wine list is extensive, and most everyone should be able to find a fitting wine for his meal. N.B. the restaraunt hours are typical French. We reserved for 19:00, the earliest we could, and were the first patrons, all alone in the big restaraunt. However by 20:30 the place was packed, every table taken, and the overflow went into the adjoining rooms which also serve the bar area. ||||Bar - the bar area also serves as breakfast area. This room is very quaint, and inviting. The breakfast is, however, typical old French style, meaing a croisant, and bread, with butter and an assortment of jam, coffee and/or tea. We did not ask for, nor were we offered any thing else for the breakfast. ||||I did not find anyone at this facility that spoke any other language other than French, but then I thought, ja, in a village of this size in Indiana, which restaraunt has a menu in French and German?||||We did however enjoy our stay, and the nice hike we took around town. Incidentally Beze is not too far from Dijon, and is located between two exits off of the tollway, so it's easy to get to and from the tollway...

First of all, the Auberge is under new management, and the name has been changed. It is now called Auberge Le Renard'Eau. There is a huge banner hanging across the front of the building, New Management. Their new internet site is still under construction, and it's auberge-renardeau.fr. ||||the new managers, young and ambitious people, are making some changes to the hotel for the good. The hotel is a strong 3-star hotel, so patrons/guests expecting to find a Hilton or Marriott type room need not book here, but you will find a nice hotel, clean rooms, with those extras in place that are expected to be in a 3-star hotel. ||||The hotel is unique, very old, full of character, or "quaint" as some say. Its easy to see how an old "Inn" was rebuilt into a good hotel, as many items from older times are still there, like a fireplace in each of the public rooms ground level, antiques decorating the walls. If you enjoy older places you will find this a marvelous place, as there is so nuch to see and explore in the various rooms. The original wooden beams are stil in place performing their duty for 3-400 years now. ||||The rooms - each room is different, and have names. Our room had a 4-poster double bed with ceiling, and the room was large enough for the two of us, and sported also a couch/hide-a-bed for a child. The mattress was good and firm, not well worn, and the bedding typical French with sheets and wool blankets (no comforters). Our room had good free WiFi receiption, a nice flat screen TV, and was well lighted. The bathroom had a bath/shower, good lighting, and it's own electrical space heater that worked perfectly. The hotel is located on what one could call a main street, but a main street in Beze, a small village, means that most of the time there is no traffic, and we saw absolutely no truck traffic at all as the roads coming to town are departmental roads. I.E., it was very quiet at night. If you are a light sleeper, ask for a room facing the inside of the property (back) of the building. ||||||The restaraunt - is in a glassed in area on the back side of the building, and also has a fire place. With warm weather there is also coverd and uncovered seating outside the glass partitions, so it is still quite and one can enjoy their meal. The food we saw and tried was tpical to Bourgonia, and steaks and most meats were grilled over an open fire. Quite yummy. The wine list is extensive, and most everyone should be able to find a fitting wine for his meal. N.B. the restaraunt hours are typical French. We reserved for 19:00, the earliest we could, and were the first patrons, all alone in the big restaraunt. However by 20:30 the place was packed, every table taken, and the overflow went into the adjoining rooms which also serve the bar area. ||||Bar - the bar area also serves as breakfast area. This room is very quaint, and inviting. The breakfast is, however, typical old French style, meaing a croisant, and bread, with butter and an assortment of jam, coffee and/or tea. We did not ask for, nor were we offered any thing else for the breakfast. ||||I did not find anyone at this facility that spoke any other language other than French, but then I thought, ja, in a village of this size in Indiana, which restaraunt has a menu in French and German?||||We did however enjoy our stay, and the nice hike we took around town. Incidentally Beze is not too far from Dijon, and is located between two exits off of the tollway, so it's easy to get to and from the tollway...

We stayed here as a stopover on the way down to the Ardeche. In terms of a stopover it worked perfectly, a good distance down from Rotterdam and not far off the motorway.

The village is beautiful and well worth a stroll around. There are three restaurants and a pizzeria in the village, though the pizzeria was closed when we visited so don’t rely on it!

The hotel itself is very quaint, there is parking opposite next to the church. Our room was big, it didn’t have Ac and was a little stuffy, though the window opened fully and there was a fan. The best thing about the room was the mezzanine floor. My son loved it! Another plus was the price, I think we paid about 70 euros for a four person room without breakfast.

On the downside, the toilet didn’t flush and the shower was a little below par in terms of cleaning.

After finding out the pizzeria was closed we ate at the restaurant at the hotel. Personally I thought the portions were small and the food was very average, but then I do have a big appetite.

All in all, you get what you pay for and it was a far better experience than a...