The food at Le Georges was quite good. It has a Michelin star. You'd expect that. What wasn't…read morequite as good--and was unexpected--was that the service was not as good. We arrived about ten minutes early for our early (7:00) dinner reservation. The restaurant wasn't quite open but it was in our hotel and the maître d'hôtel was at his station. We were weary (we had just arrived from the states that morning) and just wanted to sit down and enjoy a nice meal. Instead of offering us an aperitif to enjoy while the rest of the staff readied itself, he suggested that we go to the other hotel bar and return in a few minutes. This was mildly frustrating but could have been forgiven had the rest of the service been seamless. It wasn't. We had long waits during which time no one visited our table. The service wasn't bad. It just wasn't, in my mind, Michelin-star worthy. The food was also a bit uneven. My wife had a fish dish that she thought had been overcooked. I had a pickled mackerel dish that was heavy on the pickling and a little light on the oily mackerel flavor. I also had a duck breast that was cooked perfectly and was delicious. My wife's other dish was supposed to be stuffed zucchini blossoms. As luck would have it, we had eaten lunch in the hotel's brasserie and I had ordered a salad that had come with a zucchini blossom wrapped around a stuffed, small red pepper. On the dinner menu, this was described differently, but it was the same dish. (A) It wasn't really a stuffed zucchini blossom. And (B) I was annoyed to find the same food from the brasserie being served to me hours later on the fine-dining menu. But all was not lost. My wife's dessert was the star of the show. If you go to Le Georges, and if you're in Chartres, you probably should, definitely get the Grand Marnier Souffle. It was amazing. That dessert saved the meal from an otherwise okay review. If the whole meal had lived up to the hype of that dessert, I could understand why Michelin has shined one of its vaunted stars on Le Georges.
