Au Comptoir des Halles — Restaurant in Mâcon

We chose the Menu de Quai, a mid-priced set menu, and overall the food was excellent.

The starters were fantastic—tuna tataki for me and a terrine for my wife. The tuna was delicate but full of flavour, and the terrine came with loads of taste, plus an amazing relish and toast.

For mains, I had duck with roast potatoes and a brilliant sauce. The potatoes and sauce were outstanding, and the duck was good too. My wife had beef with frites—perfect fries, and decent beef. The meat in both dishes was good, but didn’t quite match the high standard of everything else.

For dessert, I had a brilliant cheese board with six cheeses (three seemed to be different types of Comté), and my wife had the mojito meringue tart—minty, light, and really tasty.

We had a lovely bottle of Fleurie with it all, and the total came to €110. For the quality of the food, that felt like amazing value....

2 out of 3 dishes were not good, as a started we took escargots, the were precooked and warmed up a little bit, after I sent it back, but it returned 5 minutes later not any warmer. My wife had a tuna steak, which was ok, but the St.Jacques scallops with risotto was not good. The risotto was pre(over)cooked. When I informed the waiter, he took my (almost full) plate without any apology and returned 10 minutes later with the menu for desert. This waiter was constantly poking with his finger in his mouth to get something between his teeth. I will never go to this...

I really like the food here and I've had a good experience in the past but today I choked on my food and couldn't breathe, I thought I'd die and the waiter/waitress didn't do anything, fortunately my friends and girlfriend was there and helped me get it out. My friend said the steak was not well cut and there was a lot of stringy fat and the waiter just said "I don't know I'm sorry" and we still had to pay full price for everything. I don't think I want to go...