Mirabelle

My boyfriend and I went with our son for lunch this past 1st of september, we were received by a Italian waitress. we were offer a spot in a large table , between a family of 4 and a couple of girls in the other end, we were told we had to had our son sit on our lap (eventhough there was space for a chair for our son.....) but we agreed on it, so we won´t get into detail with this issue. righ after we ordered food, our son went to floor and we went out to the street and inside a couple of times, when we sat our son saw the neighbour´s croissant and he wanted one himself ( he is 2 years old). My boyfriend who is Italian as well, went to the italian waitress and asked if he could please have a croissant for our son so he would be entertained until the food arrived, the answer of the waitress turned our sunday completely down: "You have to be sit at the table....." it felt like she didn´t want to spend a single second building any link of link with us and she wanted us quiet at the table. we felt our son was very little welcome.....children do not have a switch on/off button so you cannot force them to stay sit, maybe the croissant would have helped more than her arrogance? eventhough our son wasn´t behaving bad we decided to leave the place. We could have understood a misunderstanding if the waitress was from another nationality and we were speaking a different language....but it was a same language conversation. We don´t understand how Christian Puglisi, who is so careful with food and the cozy atmospheres in his restaurants cannot have a closer look on his staff.....we eat out very ofter and we have never experience such a low, low level of service PS, the place just in front is much more child friendly (for future family references)