I've been there twice and there won't be a third time. The first time I got there and waited over 10 minutes to even be acknowledged by the staff. I waited so long I ended up asking the waitress is it were perhaps self-service. She said not and finally brought me a menu. The food was okay, really nothing special. Their beers are just average, fresh and home brewed, but you can find much better beers in France.
The second time I went I took my wife there because she was starving and it was the closest restaurant to our hotel. The place was maybe half full, certainly not hopping busy and yet after 20 minutes of being completely ignored by the staff we got up and walked out. There is no reason they couldn't even give us a nod or quickly bring a menu over. A group of women who showed up about 5 minutes after my wife and I also waited about 15 minutes for their menus, but when they got their menus and the waitress still walked past my wife and I we had had enough. I've even gone through the trouble of making a yelp account just to warn people to expect a long wait if you plan on eating there.
There are many other places in Chamonix to get a burger and a beer without the wait. I would strongly consider passing this one by.
Very un-Canadian of them. read more