Voltaire Restaurant - take out — Restaurant in Ixelles - Elsene

If you are a FOREIGNER, who can not speak perfect French, AVOID the place at all costs!!!

I have been going to Voltaire since 2014 (it was Gaudron by then). This one and the Plasch (now called Au Savoy) have been my neighbourhood restos for the last 8-10 years despite of the theatretical grumpiness of the service staff in both of them and less so at Voltaire… until today…

I have always been happy with the smiley service of the female service staff who have been always so kind to bring water to my chihuahua.

BUT, today was a nightmare. Today is THE FIRST TIME that I have been treated so RUDELY by a service staff -a face I can not recognise because of the mask- that I have ever experienced in Brussels since I moved to this city!!! It was XENOPHOBIC and LINGUISTICALLY CHAUVINISTIC!!!

Shame on you Voltaire for recruiting...

Issue with this place is the service and the overrated quality/price ratio. When you go there for lunch, they make you sit and wait for 15 min first to take a ticket and then go back to the counter to order your plate. When you ask "why" you have to take a ticket first like a governmental office, the answer is "ce comme ca"... Why can't you simply order your plate at the counter? Similarly, after they assemble your plate, they don't warm up the food, selling plain rice, potatoes and chicken skewer ice-cold. When you ask "why", answer is "it is like a salad" but obviously it isn't. In the end, you end up paying 25-30 Euro for cold plain rice and 2 small chicken skewers along with...

Nice place for the bobo fauna of the area to be combined with reading to be bought from the adjacent bookshop/newsagents...snacks are good enough and up to U to combine from the buffet in big or normal plates...think twice before U order wine if U have decent expectations...prosecco or spritz could be an alternative in general and for an aperitif/apero...some stuff comes from the excellent VILLA LORRAINE ...if U have sweet teeth treat yourself a chocolate Dome...but above all enjoy the well to do public...well fed...well dressed...as they arrive or leave in the sexiest of...