La Couronne Restaurant — Restaurant in Montclair

A Spectacular Valentines Evening of Fabulous Food, and Outstanding Service. My wife and I usually do not attempt to go out for diner on a holiday because most times menus are limited or overpriced and service is usually poor because most servers would rather be out celebrating themselves. Well I found an excellent restaurant with delicious food and outstanding service on a holiday (Valentine's) The name of this jewel and benchmark restaurant is La Couronne in Montclair. From the moment we walked into the restaurant we were happily greeted and shown to our table. (we had a 5:30pm reservation). Immediately after be seated we were given water and a basket of warm Italian bread with butter. Next our server welcomed us and took our drink order and gave us menus. He also went over the nights specials. He gave us plenty of time to read the menu, answered our questions and then took our order. We started with the Fresh Italian Seafood Salad. Loaded with plenty of shrimp, calamari, scallops & celery in an extra virgin olive oil garlic and lemon. Definitely enough for 2 people. we also tried the stuffed mushrooms. Stuffed with breadcrumbs, mozzarella, bacon and served with a marsala wine sauce. 4 good size shrooms to the order and may I say SCRUMPTIOUS!!! My wife ordered one of the Chefs Special - Fresh Pappardelle Pasta tossed with rock shrimp, mussels, shitake mushrooms, tomatoes and baby spinach in an olive oil, garlic, white wine sauce. Its now 3 days later and she is still talking about how much she enjoyed the dish. I ordered Veal Funghi, sautéed with Portobello, shitake, and champignon mushrooms and roasted pignoli nuts, served in a Madeira wine sauce. I mopped every drop of sauce with bread that my dish clean clean. Unbelievable how good it was. We finish with 2 regular coffees, I had coffee ice cream (ice cream is my favorite dessert) and my wife had apple crumb pie with vanilla ice cream. (our server said its made in house. I tried a spoonful and said to wife great choice. I can't say enough how good the service is at La Couronne. Every employee work together and as a team. Smiles on everyone's faces and eager to please every customer. On your next dinner out please give La Couronne a try. I'm confident you will agree with me, its...

I went to eat at this restaurant today and I could describe my as experience as something other than horrible. The food is really low quality. The thin crust pizza is really hard to bite into and the tomato sauce in it was way too sweet. I personally ordered a sirloin steak with mashed potatoes and it might have been one of the worst steaks I’ve ever had. It was so burnt that it was bitter to the point of being inedible. After I voiced my concerns to the waitress she tried to gaslight me by saying that a steak on the grill should look like that. I have been to many steakhouse all over the US this definitely has to be one of the worse places to get a steak. The poor food quality did not stop there since my partner ordered the chicken Alfredo and his chicken was so dry and unseasoned that he had to take it out of the dish and onto a napkin. The waitress offered to remake my steak but she was clearly annoyed by me not agreeing that the steak according to her was good to eat. The first time it had taken my for literally two hours to be served so I respectfully told her that I would rather not get the replacement since in the end the new steak would have the same result of being brunt because by the waitress standards that’s a steak should be. According to the waitress the steak being completely burnt was actually just it’s medium term so I can’t even imagine what a well down would look like. The sides for the food like mash potatoes and the mix of vegetables has no flavor not even salt was added. I would 100% not recommend going here and saving your money for a...

We have been dining here for many, many years and have always had outstanding food and service. We like it so much that we have held special occasion dinners here and were so happy that nothing changed after the owner passed some years back.

I need to start by saying that we are never in a rush when dining out. We enjoy a slower pace. That said, our experience last night wasn't a slower pace, it was terrible, terrible service from the server to the bussing staff to the kitchen. When our entrées finally arrived, over two hours after being seated, two of four dishes were cold, one was lukewarm, one was hot and clearly freshly made. We ordered appetizers and entrées at the same time. The apps were served over an hour after ordering. There was no communication by our server (who never gave us her name), and she wasn't often present. We had to ask whoever we could flag down, many times without any answer or apology. Many parties who were seated after us, left long before we did. There wasn't a manager present.

The experience was terribly disappointing, and with so many fantastic restaurants in the Montclair/Bloomfield area, we won't...