We heard Maisonette, located at 114 E. 6th Street in Downtown Cincinnati, was hurting for business. This was surprising. Maisonette was North America’s most highly rated restaurant. In fact it had the longest running streak of five-star awards—awards presented by the Mobil Travel Guide. We’re talking forty-one years of five stars.
To read more about my Maisonette experience, click here.
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I never went there but I remember going downstairs to the restaurant right below it. They had the same owners I think. Good food there!
I saved my money and don’t feel like I missed much.
LaNormandie was in the “basement.” Yes, Thersea, a nice place. I remember meeting one of their chefs, Jean Robert, post-Maisonette, at a fund-raiser dinner he supervised for Cincinnati State. It was wonderful and he was charming. Think he’s pretty civic-minded.
I had the pleasure of being there a couple times. A classy place it was!
Thanks, Karen 🙂
My parents would go there sometimes but they never took me along. Maybe it didn’t have highchairs.
I went there once and once was enough. When you say it was stuffy you sure got that right.
Like you, I ate there only once, in the late 60s, with a girl I was crazy about and trying to impress. The food was good, the service, as you described, a bit too formal. The bill, even then, over a C-note for the two of us. It was one of the few times I wore a suit and tie to dinner, and the girl, apparently unimpressed, didn’t pay any more attention to me afterwards. I knew the maître d’, but it didn’t get me any discount–in fact, I remember tipping him extra. Live and learn…
Think of how much food you could have got with that hundred bucks.
You’re right Jack Rabbit. In those days, it would have bought groceries for a month–today, not so much but still much more than we ate that evening. It was an out-of-my-league ritzy joint, but that’s why I still remember the experience so well.