L'Espalier

L'Espalier
Restaurant Cuisine: French
774 Boylston St
Boston, MA 02199
#236
of 3119 restaurants in Boston
TripZen Score
8.0 / 10 Overall
27% Recommend
8.5Overall8.5Food
8Food
Activities: Health club, Hot tub, Pool (outdoors)
Check-in / Check-out time: 11am / 3pm
Description:L'Espalier can be found at its new home on Boylston Street, adjacent to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. L'Espalier is a culinary exploration, featuring sophisticated and modern New England-French cuisine, with an emphasis on artisanal and New England ingredients. **Please note we are not able to accept reservations for the Chef's ...Read more
A breakfast nook.
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Traveler Reviews

TripZen Score
8.0 / 10 Overall
27% Recommend
8.5Overall8.5Food
8Food
Overall
  • Life is perfect at this extrordianry place....Everything is perfect and impeciable.
  • My wife loves duck but ever since we left Europe (Uk/France) it has been hard to find duck that was worthy of a gourmet dining experience.
  • this is a very, very expensive restaurant.
  • The food is good for a high end dining experience but the service is what blew me away.
  • Ambiance now more like a very nice hotel restaurant.
  • For us, this is a special occasion place, due to the distance we must drive.
  • there was nothing special about it but everything else was good!
  • Excellent food and restaurant.
  • Otherwise everything was still great!
  • We also got to taste a 1990 white Rioja which was a great experience.
  • It was everything you would expect from this notable establishment.
  • Restaurant gets a little too noisy for my liking when it gets full though.
  • The best restaurant I enjoyed during restaurant week.
  • This is an excellent restaurant!
  • The food was another story, a bit ordinary, lacking the sublime experience you'd expect of a highly rated French restaurant.
  • We have been to many of best restaurants in Boston and NY and the food here did not measure up.
  • The new location was lovely, like a high end hotel
  • our favorite restaurant is boston
  • Consistently, for decades, the best restaurant in the city....Utterly committed to an outstanding experience from arriving at the comfortable and stylish lounge, to the parting gift of perfectly packaged macaroon.
  • We loved our experience at L'Espalier.
  • if everything is OK -
Food
  • The service and the menu are excellent.
  • The food, wine and service were magnificent from beginning to end.
  • A truly wonderful dining experience.
  • Outstanding wine service.
  • The food was memorable.
  • The dessert plate was downright awful....The wines and wine service were excellent.
  • The food was absolutely phenomenal.
  • The food was a taste sensation -
  • too expensive for the food it offers.
  • Excellent service and food.
  • While the food and the service were terrific, we can't get beyond the fact...if you don't like dessert you're out of luck.
  • While the meal was wonderful, the service was lacking given the price.
  • the duck was OK but not great.
  • The food is good for a high end dining experience but the service is what blew me away.
  • Lovely sophisticated atmosphere for a ladies' lunch.
  • The food and wine selection continues to be outstanding.
  • The beef was kind of disappointing
  • Absolutely exquisite chocolate-mint mousse for dessert.
  • Excellent food and restaurant.
  • Thought that the lunch offering would be more memorable.
  • The smaller size in the pork on the first time as well made the pork more flavorful than this time when we went.
  • The food and presentation is good too, I will def try next time with other friends.
  • Service was top notch, food was excellent.
  • We went for brunch and it was fantastic.
  • Combinations of ingredients and flavors are creative, surprising, and exquisite.
  • The ambience is realy nice, but the food is not spectacular.
  • The meal was simply remarkable and very classy.
  • The food was another story, a bit ordinary, lacking the sublime experience you'd expect of a highly rated French restaurant....the preparation was uninspired, as if prepared by cooking school students.
  • the salmon was cooked just right and the fruit parfait is undoubtedly the best fruit dessert I have ever had.
  • Great food and service!
  • Food was generally great, but I tasted a tiny lump of salt from the last bite of the main dish....My wife also tasted a salt from her dessert, which could ruin the entire meal at the last time....Except for the salty thing, food and service were excellent.
  • The food was solid, but not outstanding;
  • Even the potatoes that accompanied it were tasteless.
  • The food is wonderful
  • Probably the best food and service i've had my entire stay in Boston, i really wish i found this place earlier.
  • The food and service, as always, was wonderful;
  • We have always loved the fresh flavors and delightful meals at L'Espalier.
  • The food was fantastic, the service was super, and wine selection excellent.
  • Our Scottish Salmon was magnificent & beautifully cooked & presented.
  • the food was good but definitely not the best...The restaurant has earned a reputation as having the best food in Boston
Service
  • The service and the menu are excellent.
  • The food, wine and service were magnificent from beginning to end.
  • Respect for the ingredients and excellent and knowledgable waiters made for a very special evening.
  • The service was excellent without being cloying.
  • The wines and wine service were excellent.
  • The wait staff was attentive...our server was a bit pretentious.
  • The service was also wonderful and attentive.
  • Excellent service and food.
  • While the meal was wonderful, the service was lacking given the price.
  • While the food and the service were terrific, we can't get beyond the fact
  • That said, the service was still outstanding as well.
  • Service was overall good
  • Service is impeccable....It IS pricey, but they deliver.
  • The service as expected was outstanding
  • The staff were very knowledgeable about the dishes and attentive.
  • The best services I ever had in Boston area!
  • The service was truly outstanding
  • Presentation is artful, and service is impeccable.
  • service was a bit disappointing.
  • Great food and service!
  • Except for the salty thing, food and service were excellent.
  • The service was excellent as well.
  • The service is absolutely perfect.
  • The food and service, as always, was wonderful;
  • the service somehow manages to outshine even the great food.
  • The food was fantastic, the service was super, and wine selection excellent.
Ambience
  • although it lacks the old world charm of the former place, its escellence is intact.
  • Lovely sophisticated atmosphere for a ladies' lunch.
  • Ambiance now more like a very nice hotel restaurant.
  • The food and presentation is good too, I will def try next time with other friends.
  • The ambience is realy nice, but the food is not spectacular.
  • Restaurant gets a little too noisy for my liking when it gets full though.
  • The new location was lovely, like a high end hotel...I prefer the charm of the old location on Gloucester Street.
  • Utterly committed to an outstanding experience from arriving at the comfortable and stylish lounge, to the parting gift of perfectly packaged macaroon.
  • The room is quiet and elegant, but rather coolly styled.
Value
  • Rates high on both presentation & taste.
  • too expensive for the food it offers.
  • this is a very, very expensive restaurant.
  • It IS pricey, but they deliver.

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