Eat poorly & get abused for the privilege!
02 Sep 08, 12:45
Well below expectations
FIGHT WITH THE STAFF! PLEASE READ!
We ordered two standard dishes. Vegetable Tart and Cajun chicken. Chicken was ordinary. My girlfriend had the vegetable tart. A couple of bites into it she found a hair. Ok, this sometimes happens, so she removed it. A few bites later she found a clump of hairs, this time they were fully cooked into the tart. When she tried to remove them it pulled the tart to pieces, it was full of them and completely baked in. To put it mildly this put us both off our lunch. We asked the waiter to take the food away as we were not going to pay for it. He didn’t apologise just said ‘that’s fine’.
A few minutes later we told him we were going to get up and go. He said ‘ok’. Still no apology, then he walked off. So we did too.
Then just outside the restaurant the waiter followed us and demanded we pay for the mineral water! We told him our lunch was nauseating and ruined. His argument was ‘yeah, but the water was fine’. We found it incredible he’d want to cause a scene just 10 metres away from his restaurant, on a sunny day with customers in ear-shot sitting outside. Thinking it would stop the argument we suggested if he wanted to carry on negotiating over the water we do it inside the restaurant. To our astonishment he agreed.
When we got back to the restaurant it was more of the same; still demanding £2 for the water, he mentioned the police, we mentioned the health inspector. Then we noticed another customer had just been served the same hair-filled dish. They hadn’t even taken it off the menu!
We told the unfortunate customer what happened and everyone looked appalled. His mood now changed. He said and didn’t care about the £2, but was getting angry.
We’d made our point and left to amusing threats from the waiter that he would ‘find me’ or ‘get’ me. Nice. And all in front of your customers. Real Clever.
In summary AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE. Unless you like rotund waiters with small-man syndrome abusing you Jerry Springer style for having the audacity to not pay for a meal filled with hair.
We didn’t pay the £2. And I still haven’t been ‘got’. Looks like the witness re-location can wait for a bit then Mr Waiter…
I’d be more than happy to discuss or meet with any employees of Le Chardon.
