WOMEN BEWARE!!! We made a reservation, and came for breakfast with our children. I was ordering for…read moremy 8yr old, who had requested a chocolate crêpe with eggs on the side. On the menu there is a section for extras, and you have the option of paying 2€ per egg. Arnaud simply stated that he would not put that order in. At first, I thought it was a communication error on my part, so I tried to point to the menu items we were requesting. He said "we will not put the eggs on the side, only on top". This would mean putting the eggs in a pool of chocolate sauce, so I asked why, and he replied "Welcome to France". I swallowed my ire, and asked if he wouldn't mind asking the chef, and he said, "the chef said no". Just to illustrate how insane this interaction was, we were sitting directly in front of the kitchen, I was looking into the chef's eyes as I asked, and Arnaud did not even turn around when he answered for the man. My husband saw me getting visibly upset at this point, and said we would take the eggs on top then, and he would have the same thing (we had arrived that morning and were exhausted with 3 children who we were just trying to get fed at this point). His response to my husband is the reason I'm warning women, and not Americans in general. He refused to look at me and responded, "eggs might be strange with the chocolate sauce, I can put the sauce on the side, but just for you". WHAT?!? I did not want to give them one star, because after this ridiculous interaction, the kind chef who had locked eyes with me earlier PUT THE EGGS IN A SMALL SIDE DISH for my child. Which tells me two things; one, I was not being rude or asking for things that weren't on the menu, and two, that Arnaud was in fact being unreasonable, and they have probably had to apologize for his behavior toward women in the past.
As a side note, this is FAR from my first time in France. We actually live in Spain, and from Paris, to Nice, Cannes, Épernay, and Reims, I have never had an interaction like this.
Apologies again to the chef for this star rating. Your food was flavorful, and your kindness to my child was even better.