The food in Le Canard Enchaine is top notch, both in presentation and taste. We are from NYC, and this restaurant is better than Jean-Georges Vongerichten's Mercer Kitchen (were we ate two days latter).

Some of our company were vegetarians, and they were well pleased. The rich creamy butternut squash soup was just the right balance, not too liquidy and not too heavy. The vegetable napoleon, which was layers of veggies, such as egglant, was devine. For the entrees we had two pasta dishes and the roast chicken. The chicken was perhaps the best I've ever eaten, just melting off the bone. The pasta dishes are not served on the weekend, but the hostess was willing to make an exception for us, though we'd never seen her before. Both dishes were excellently prepared with exception sauces. The creme brulle was also quite good, and came in a large portion.

What was even more impressive than the food was the warm and friendly service.

We were there with an infant, (which was not entirely appropriate) and they had a real high chair, not the wooden ones restaurants normally supply. After the entrees the hostess mentioned that there were fireworks visible down the street and offered to hold our entrees so we could go see them. She then sent a waitress out with us to show us the best spot, which our little one enjoyed immensely. This treat must have meant that they stayed open 1/2 hour later than normal (since we were the last to leave). I can't imagine any manhatten restaurant treating perfect strangers so well.