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La Petite Auberge

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116 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10016
at 28th St.  See Map | Subway Directions Hopstop Popup
212-689-5003 Send to Phone

  • Price Range: $$$

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  • Reader Rating:

    8.0 out of 10

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    9 Reviews | Write a Review

  • Cuisine: French
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Official Website

lapetiteaubergeny.com

Hours

Mon-Thu, noon-10:30pm; Fri, noon-11pm; Sat, 5pm-11pm; Sun, 4:30pm-10pm

Nearby Subway Stops

6 at 28th St.

Prices

$19.95-$32

Payment Methods

American Express, Diners Club, Discover, MasterCard, Visa

Special Features

  • Dine at the Bar
  • Fireplace
  • Good for Groups
  • Great Desserts
  • Lunch
  • Private Dining/Party Space
  • Prix-Fixe

Alcohol

  • Full Bar

Reservations

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Profile

For a quarter of a century, La Petite Auberge has quietly endured the ascendance of nouvelle cuisine, celebrity chefs, and health-consciousness, remaining remarkably immune to every hostile threat to its classic style of French cooking. For the price of an entrée almost everywhere else, the four-course prix fixe features such high-fat, old-school fare as steak au poivre with buttery potatoes and spinach, filet of sole meunière, and an enormous, wonderfully crispy duck a l'orange. The vinaigrette on the leeks is more cream than vinegar, the pâté is robust, and the service is that practiced blend of proper and friendly that makes this wood-beamed chalet in the heart of Curry Hill such a sentimental fave. If our arteries could take it, we'd be regulars. — Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld

Prix-Fixe

Lunch, three-course, $19.75; dinner, four-course, $28.50

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Average Reader Rating
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77% Would you go back?
77% Would you take a date?
66% Would you take kids?
77% Would you go on business?
88% Would you go on a special occasion?
Food: 8.1
Service: 8.3
Décor: 6.8
Value: 7.9

years of perfect food and service

elliellu from 10016 | Posted on 1/5/07

Overall Rating: 10 (Highly Recommended)
Food: 10
Service: 10
Décor: 9
Value: 10

I feel like I'm back in Paris with the prices of 1980. Continued great food and service,makes thai a destination place to eat. I'm always in a plane and a new city or country and it is very hard to find a place to eat that is small, select and not full of hype.

What is a smart person like you doing in Murray Hill, anyway?

K22 from | Posted on 12/16/05

Overall Rating: 3 (Not Recommended)
Food: 3
Service: 2
Décor: 2
Value: 3

Enjoy the vinegar-like "Chardonnay" as you sup from $2.99 Pier 1 ramekins. Let's face it, this restaurant is serving cafeteria-style French food and fooling you into thinking it's "homemade" or "simple". Check out the freaky painting of the rooster, too. Each entree comes with (1) bald white potato sprinkled with "parsley" and some near-canned green beans. There must be some catering business next door - the waiters are constantly leaving *to go outside* with plates of food. You'll constantly be reminded of all the ways this place is trying to save money -- at Le Petit Auberge, "you're putting up with the restaurant," not the other way around. As you dine, delivery men will be entering and exiting the front door with their cargo - charming. Lovely dessert menu, too, mispelling "EXPRESSO". Is a place like this really to be trusted? Avoid. I'd rather dine with a bunch of dangerous, shaggy freaks.

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