Madeline 1982 Bakery and Restaurant — Restaurant in Town of Lake George

This authentic French cafe & restaurant is the best place to eat for anyone who loves to enjoy their food.

Context: I enjoyed breakfast and then dinner there on the same day.

Breakfast: I ordered their Benedict dish with an extra egg on the side, which includes your choice of juice, and coffee or tea. The coffee was subtly spectacular, with fresh chocolate notes, and not overwhelming burnt in flavor. These beverages paired perfectly with the food.

The food included truly homemade hollandaise, two perfectly poached eggs, two small richly flavored bun or biscuit halves beneath them, with mixed greens and tomatoes, ornamented delightfully with herbs and fresh black pepper.

Their croissants are also flaky, buttery, and rich with flavor.

At dinner, I ordered their crepe appetizer and their steak and got it medium rare.

The crepe was amazing, with ham and bechamel rolled into flavorful bundle, with a similar mixed green and tomato accompaniment to that from breakfast.

The cut of steak was cheap, but beautifully crafted in a red wine glaze that made it taste of burned marshmallows. It's side was small halved potatoes and broccoli. The broccoli and potatoes were cooked perfectly, not too much or too little, and shared in complex but home made flavor.

Madeline's cooking and baking brings elegance and a love for flavor and cooking to an area where most restaurants make food to serve at volume with little attention paid to the flavors so deliberately.

As someone who has traveled the world and been to 1/3 of the countries on Earth and all of the continents, US states and territories, such a restaurant is a rare find for any community, especially outside the confines of major population centers like NYC, Boston, and Montreal.

If you are looking for a cooking flavor experience where you can dwell on the flavors of every bite, you should step into this transformative cafe & restaurant. It was clear that the food prepared there was made with intent of depth and passion that rivals some of the best places I've mined in my life.

The steak is one I will...

SKIP THIS OVERPRICED, TERRIBLE PLACE!! This is by far the WORST breakfast places I’ve ever been to. Cold food, chunky gross hollandaise on the Benedict’s, my friend didn’t even get the ham on hers while mine had cold canned mushrooms on mine (I’m veg so I asked for them not knowing they were canned). Potatoes were smothered in sweet chili sauce which was very weird as well. Since it didn’t go with anything on the plate and was not told it would be on them in the first place. Plates were so expensive!! It was insane how bad the food was. Food was flavorless and there were no condiments or even salt and pepper on the table. Eggs were both over cooked AND cold. Glasses of cranberry juice were not even filled and they were out of orange juice. Ordered a “iced green tea” and got a Luke warm glass with like 5 ice cubes on it handed to me while I was looking in the pastry case. The wait was very long so I got bored and stayed checking out the pastry area. Had to order a glass of ice and was told “oh yeah well I had to brew the tea first”….. ok well then don’t offer iced tea then. Service was very slow and multiple things wrong with our order. However also multiple tables were covered in old dirty dishes. There was a lot of staff in the restaurant but no one seemed to be doing very much. The server besides being slow was pleasant but the woman at the register (where you check out after your meal) had no idea what she was doing...

I’m not one to leave a negative review publically, but I’ve tried twice to leave a “contact us” privately and it gave me an “invalid captcha” (which I hadn’t even had a chance to register). Anyway, the food… We stopped ima Friday evening and were immediately impressed by the decor and menu board. The French onion soup, coffee, and lemon bar were the only positives of our $175 dinner for two. It seems bad business to advertise a risotto but serve a pile of rice with a sautee poured over the rice. A risotto is a preparation in itself. Just call it salmon with a bed of rice, or seafood sautee over a bowl of rice. Probably have to cut back the price but at least maintain integrity. The salmon special was so overcooked that I could not finish it, and we took home a “creme brûlée” that was more like a scrambled egg — no custard texture and no “bruleed” crunchy sugar crust. The charcuterie had a two decent cheeses (a Brie with caramel sauce on it and an Orange cheddar), two types of prosciutto but the “fruit” was limited to raisins (no fresh fruit), pistachios, and pecans — for about $40. This was all high-priced, but I was willing to go there for “French cuisine,” but was so disappointed that I’m here begging that the place return to whatever magic got it the great reviews we’d read beforehand - for your own sake and the sake of those seeking a “French cuisine...