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Maison Batard
French$$$
Brasserie-meets-nightclub with four floors of Parisienne excess.
Chris Lucas venues can be more like blockbuster productions than restaurants, and his French fantasia is certainly more Vegas than Versailles. That won’t be for everyone, yet chef Adam Sanderson drives an impressive menu served on monogrammed plates, with a choose-your-budget procession of oysters, steak and caviar.
Rightful menu mainstays include paprika-spiced tuna tartare atop smooth avocado, and crisp-skinned, juicy rotisserie chicken lifted with green olives. A knockout snapper en croute – one delicate fillet trimmed with golden pastry – swims in a textbook beurre blanc.
The best desserts arrive in sundae glasses, such as frou-frou red berries and chantilly soft serve, and fluffy Belgian chocolate mousse scooped at the table. Wines span 100 pages and cover all bases from Romanee-Conti to Beechworth. Attracting everyone from the long lunch set to business account warriors ready to spend big, this is flashy dining with a capital F.
Good to know: Specials such as $39.50 lunchtime steak frites can keep the bill in check.
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Last visited: June 2026
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