Stay away if you are a tourist. They seem to have recently hired an extremely condescending and disrespectful waiter, and I also just learned that racist patrons visit and support this restaurant. I posted the following review on TA and received a hateful private message from a local within a day, telling me to go back to my own country. The food is not as good as people say it is - really just okay in our opinion, and definitely not worth being secretly despised by the waiter and their racist local patrons over. Imagine sitting there and people around you don't want you there the whole time...
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When we got there right when they opened for dinner they tried to sit us near the window by the door, where if the door opened the cold wind will come in. Given how cramped the tables were my elderly parents can't sit inside on the couch and must sit with their backs facing the door. My dad has a bad back and cannot endure the wind, so we asked to move inside. While we were accommodated, being literally the only customers at this time, our waiter started to display some strange attitude like we were being demanding and picky about our seats for no good reason. I wanted to explain, but decided against it, and the rest of the night we had the same waiter who continued to make us feel very awkward and uncomfortable.
My elderly mom is also suffering from a health condition, and at the time felt very bloated because of it. She only wanted a hot French onion soup and the opportunity to spend time with us during dinner. When we tried to order just the soup for her the same waiter gave us all sorts of attitude and became really impatient and clearly unhappy. He insisted that she must also get another item or nothing. We ended up getting a crème brûlée for "her" to share at the end.
Being new to the restaurant and France in general we asked for recommendations off the menu, and the waiter not only refused but also gave us such a bad attitude for even asking. I then asked him if they served hot wine, at which point he looked at me mockingly and said no. I don't know why I can't even ask an innocent question. I've had this from other restaurants in Paris. We've been out in the cold all day and I was craving a hot wine, and I was made to feel bad for asking.
Once the entree is served we ate fairly quickly, for 2 reasons: 1) we had a 9:00PM appointment to enter the Eiffel Tower and the restaurant opened at 7:00PM, meaning that we needed to start walking over around 8:30PM; and 2) my parents are suffering from jet lag. Dinner time in Paris is the middle of the night where they are traveling from. If we eat long dinners where they sit and idle for long periods of time they end up dozing off at the table. They become miserable and we end up looking rude.
Therefore, as soon as we are done eating we waved down our waiter and explained that we are done. He took a look at us and said, "no, you are not", and left. We waved him down again, at which point he starts ranting about how we ate too fast and it is not nice to eat fast. "Do you have somewhere to be?", he asked. Well, actually, yes... We explained that we have to go to the Eiffel Tower at 8:30PM and he starts saying that we can't go at 8:30PM because it is entry by the hour. We proceeded to explain that we have a 9:00PM appointment and therefore need to start walking at 8:30PM, at which point he finally relents, took our plates, and had the kitchen start on our dessert.
After dessert it was still only around 8:06PM, so I asked for a latte. He jeered and said, "this is France, we don't have lattes" and then stared at me. I felt extremely uncomfortable. I really don't understand where this attitude is coming from. I've had lattes from so many different cafes and restaurants here, and even if they don't serve it all he had to do is say they don't. He then asked me if I wanted an Espresso, but Espressos don't have milk and I like my coffee with milk! So I paused for a few moments, thinking, and my husband asked me if I wanted a cup. This waiter then starts making fun of my husband, "everything comes in a cup. What else will it come in?"
Okay... it's just English conversation. We say, "do you want a cup of coffee?". My husband literally meant if I wanted one anyway (without milk) when he said "do you want a cup". After some more negative attitude conversation from the waiter we discovered that they served "cafe au lait", which I ended up getting.
The whole meal we felt so unwelcomed, unwanted, uncomfortable, awkward, and stressed. I've NEVER felt like this in any other restaurant in my life. The most I've experienced before is maybe some hurried service and impatience from low-end restaurants but never did I feel judged and mocked. Here I was scared to say anything, ask for anything, or frankly do anything other than eat my food because it's uncertain what other kind of abuse we will receive.
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