"we were recommended to alchimy and visited albi largely to lunch there. However, we were very disappointed and we are quite in vain. we found the service superficially polite, but distracted and inconspicuous. we have requested butter and it is never there. we were in Siberia, and it wasn't even very busy. we took a mix of menu and à la carte dishes. most dishes were quite delicious, but my fish was in stone cold and had a terrible strong fish taste. the red bass on the à la carte menu is replaced by heke on the set menu (why? , and I suspect it was frozen and tasted most unpleasant. they took it away and heat it (instead of roasting it, so it was hot, but still quite terrible. at the end, the waiter said that he would pass my comments to the cook (which I truly doubted, but seemed unreleased. we expected a lot more of such a facility and from our experience would not be so bad to recommend alchimy."