Le Pain Quotidien — Restaurant in Autonomous City of Buenos Aires

i ordered an avocado toast that you needed a magnifying glass to find the avocado. the hard/burnt toast only looked tinted lightly green. when i told the waitress that the avocado toast hardly had any avocado, she went to look for the manager. the manager told me that that was the proper amount of avocado, and that that was the recipe of the head chef. if you enjoy avocado on your avocado toast, skip this place.

response to owners response:

wow! very surprised by your response le pain quotidien. so basically, you are calling me a liar. nice way to keep long time clients....

i am used to a different level of service of this brand, and clearly le pain quotidien argentina is sub par to any other le pain quotidien experience that i have had in a number of cities in other countries.

this was a constructive criticism given to your staff that would have been solved by simply giving a little amount more of avocado, or at very least an apology for a very lacking dish you serve.

a little bit of avocado would have gone a very long way in avoiding losing a client, having that person review you negatively, plus passing along the experience to many friends and family.

good luck with your...

I went on a Monday, just before noon, and the place had that awkward level of occupancy: not busy enough to excuse the delay, but not empty enough to explain the neglect. I sat down, waited… and waited, studying the online menu with the patience of a Buddhist monk while the waitstaff ignored me like an ex at the supermarket. Eventually, a waitress dropped the menu on my table like it was a ticking time bomb and dashed off like she owed me money. That’s when I knew things weren’t going to improve, so I left with the grace of someone walking out of a failed audition. I even found myself looking for someone to apologize to—for showing up in the first place. In short, it’s a spacious and charming spot whose greatest achievement was proving that silence and indifference can be the worst items...

We recently ate in this beautiful cafe on our trip to Buenos Aires. We were looking for a place for breakfast and nothing seemed to be open. Le Pain Quotidien opens at 9 which is an hour earlier than most other places we tried. We got a couple pastries some coffees and salmon eggs Benedict. The eggs Benedict was perfect. We actually ordered a second after we finished. The coffees were very fun and flavorful, one of them had turmeric and the other had pollen. If your early risers like us then Buenos Aires is going to be a difficult place to find breakfast, but if you can hold off until nine then this...