Chez Barbe et Belle Impératrice, Djakarta Taste, 美丽的皇后 — Restaurant in Gatineau

I’ve come to this restaurant several times in the past 12 years. It had been a long time since I’d been and the only thing I missed is the great downfall. My bill for 2 adults & one kid under 5yrs cost us 80$ with a generous 15% tip even with lack of good service.

Had to ask for condiments repeatedly and she kept forgetting side plates. Every single plate came 5-10 minutes apart setting each of us to finish at different intervals. No excuse for this sort of thing in my opinion with a max of 4-6 tables to serve at the most at any given time.

Furthermore the food quality and food order service has gone way down hill; let me explain why. They only serve turkey bacon(which they had none left) their Italian sausage is basically spicy hot dogs, they serve bologna and turkey ham as sides. This establishment is 100% pork free now. Basically if you possibly want quality breakfast meat it would be steak and eggs with no additional meat sides for 20$ (no thanks). I asked for runny yolk eggs and got eggs cooked through and through. Everything didn’t taste fresh and good either. Their maple syrup seems to be half maple half corn syrup: like we wouldn’t notice. The French toast was alright but felt undercooked.

Don’t get me started on the filthy washrooms with sinks that don’t properly work? Sanitation issues all around.

Wish I’d been warned so I’m doing others a favour. Costing a restaurant is not easy but I feel like you don’t get value for money here at all. The sanitation board also needs to come say hi I think. All in all: I’m Never setting foot here again, used to recommend these guys all the time but those days are long gone. ✌️

Edit: I gave these guys 2 stars but now they get one star for lying in their response. It’s one thing to be honest about a review but it’s another to be attacked by the owner after being a long time customer. I would’ve never ordered our drinks had I seen the changed menu! It was too late by then you did not give us the menu before making us order drinks we weren’t walking away. The sanitation issues I noticed in the middle of my meal are reason enough not to ever set foot here again. Let alone all the nonsense and poor food service. I clearly ordered my eggs in English don’t play the crowd here to gain favour. The fact I used to recommend you guys as the best breakfast place FIRST to anyone should be an indication of how much I used to like you guys. I wouldn’t just have fun bashing a business online for no damn reason,...

Went to Chez Barbe for the first time today and ordered their basic two egg breakfast for myself and the eggs Benedict for my daughter. The basis two egg breakfast was not that great. Eggs were OK, (hard to screw up fried eggs), but the potatoes were bland and the baked beans were tasteless. The eggs Benedict were just awful. The hollandaise sauce tasted horrible and the ham tasted like cheap sandwich meat. My daughter and i each tried it and neither of us could eat it. My daughter always orders this when we go out for breakfast and has never ever complained before. When I let the server know when she asked me how my meal was, she said that the other table had the same thing and thought it was fine. So much for the customer is always right! Not impressed and will not go back. My brother told me a similar story when he had steak and eggs there, or like he called it, shoe-sole and eggs. On a positive note, service was good and even though they seemed very busy, the server was pleasant...

Been going there once or twice a year for 8 or 9 years now and Barbe has sadly taken a steep nosedive in terms of food quality and service.

The waitress was a mess, kept forgetting everything we asked of her. 2 of our group of 8 had already finished eating their breakfast by the time the last 2 breakfasts showed up.

Steak n Eggs was advertised as $19 at the door and $18 on the menu. We mentioned it and the waitress said it would be $18. Ordered it, my steak was hard as a rock and smelled of fish. Colleagues steak was blue rare. When the bill came she charged us $19.95 for each. No apologies.

I lined up to pay but had to rush to the toilet because I got diarrhea... To top it all off the washroom was filthy from top to bottom.

Won't be going...