Cap Nord — Restaurant in Boulogne-sur-Mer

TRADITIONAL FRENCH FARCE

Moments after our starters had arrived, the middle-aged waitress or patronne, I’m not sure what, came over to announce that our main courses were done. They were done, and ready to be served. When I replied that I didn’t understand, she proceeded to repeat the information more slowly and loudly - before I managed to explain that whilst I understood her French perfectly, I didn’t understand what she expected me to do about their blunder.

Her response - to yell at the chef - at least drew a more reasonable human being into the argument - one who defused things and told us not to worry….though in all honesty I suspect one of those plates made a reappearance later on.

This incident, which has never happened to me before anywhere, ever, and which caused great amusement for all who witnessed it essentially sums up the meal we went on to have.

Drinks were forgotten - tough! it was the bar’s fault, and what was she supposed to do about it? Fish soup was off - no, hang on, actually it wasn’t - the bread had run out - but then it arrived. An enquiry as to what was the Viande du Jour was met with the look of an excruciating toothache before our ‘host’ stomped off to find out. At one point she tripped and fell into the couple on the table next to us.

All of which made for a most entertaining couple of hours, and would have been fine, had the food been tolerable. But the Salade de Chèvre Chaud was a Salade de Chèvre Froid (presumably because it was the one that had been standing around for an hour or so after it was originally made) - and the Bavette requested saignan (rare) came blue - far too rare for a cheaper cut such as this one - and consequently was inedible. The ‘waitress’ agreed with me but said it was my fault for not complaining immediately. She left us with a €120 bill and two crèpes for the kids which were as tough as the steak. Hard to believe they don’t even freshly make their crèpes - but then again everything and everyone to do with the Cap Nord has clearly seen...

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