Cafe Cognac — Restaurant in Gatineau

Very disappointed of this place . We tried to make a reservation before going and no one answered the phone . We still went on a saturday morning (I understand is probably the worst time and day ) and we were told they’ll have a table ready for us (2 people) in 15 minutes, to wait outside they’ll called us . Two ladies enter after us and they were given a table 10min after and they never made them wait outside, we tought they must have had a reservation. 30 minutes later a family of 16 left and a family of 4 have left in between these 30 minuted, another couple walks in they were giving a table right away . We entered to see what was going on and the girl saw us like she completely forgot about us , even tho we were in front of the door the whole time, we were told she’ll get a table for us in 5minutes . We got a table in the most awful spot but still we gave them the benefit of the doubt . Server came to ask for drinks and dissapeared for like 20 minutes, a couple arrived 5 minutes after we got seated, the same server took all of their orders first and still never came to us . We asked someone to take our order (finally) . Food was not the best quality or taste . We had the classic breakfast, potatoes were nasty, I don’t understand how can you mess up potatoes that bad ( they tasted like old re heated potatoes that were never cooked properly). Sausages were good the rest was average . We also had one of the breakfast sandwich, was a weird mix of different ingredients, very dry and basic-ish they use the same bread as the toast, so it was very small and could barely taste the flavours. The salad on the side was the weirdest mix with a sauce that made everything taste worst . I usually would come back to these type of places if at least the regular breakfast was good , this place was no it . Save your money and go somewhere else or cook at home, believe me is...

Just finished lunch with my sister, and I have some things to say, we came in with high expectations from there old location being quite popular and lovey but this location wasnt up to par. first front staff was absolutely lovely, we ordered fish and chips for myself and a duck salad for my sister with calamari as a starter. Calamari was fine though it was around a 20 minute wait for such a quick and simple dish I find, the real problem came with our food, my fish was plan and tasted frozen I didn't taste any beer in a beer based batter and the fries felt and tasted old they were hard and barely hot, duck was alright though we did find it odd that the duck served cold instead of hot and it absolutely tasted refrigerated ( happens when food has been in a fridge for a day or two not cealed properly), then desert i got a cream bruleé and my sis got churros, churros tasted and looked more like a beaver tail and were slightly raw in the middle, my cream bruleé was extremely hard, I had to full force hit the caramel with a spoon, should of surved it was a chisel, (it was under the salamander for too long) it felt like I was eating sponge toffee. And the custard was way to sweet tasted like the filling of a Boston cream donut😅. From the consumers point of view the line cook didn't give a second glance on the food they were pushing out. Spent 104$ for this. Sorry, not...

For what you get, this restaurant is meh. Maybe I'm just the wrong clientele, but the food was overpriced and underwhelming. I got the mussels and fries and my wife the pork souvlaki burger. The mussels were relatively small and flavourless compared to what I get at restaurants back home in Halifax, and half the shells were empty with only a few floating in the broth to make up for it. I tried a couple of my wife's fries and they seemed a bit under done but the burger looked good and she said it was tasty. We also ordered the halloumi fries and grilled watermelon to start (we only really cared about the halloumi) and got maybe five thin strips of cheese and three small wedges of watermelon (which somehow tasted fishy) for $15. Definitely not worth it for the $81 plus tip that we paid.

It seems like they poured all their money into atmospheric lights, a louvered patio cover that didn't seem to keep the rain out according to three guys that booked it off the patio and a...