Le Café du Commerce — Restaurant in La Rochelle

Spoiled by the locals... :-(

I ate here in a group of 4, with my girlfriend and her parents.

Despite it being 11pm, we found ourselves sat next to the most obnoxious family, with 3 very young children, screaming, shrieking and shouting all through dinner, while standing on their chairs.

This was a very obvious disturbance which regrettably the staff chose to ignore. It got to the point where we could no longer hold a conversation or tolerate the behaviour and my girlfriend's father politely asked them if they could keep the noise down. At this point we were subjected to over 5 minutes of verbal abuse and further shouting from both the adults at the table.

Despite the shouting and the fact things were clearly escalating, the staff chose to disappear rather than intervene or diffuse the situation. It started to get quite ridiculous and uncomfortable with the couple continuing to shout at us and encourage their children to do the same!!

The man at the table kept saying about how much he disliked tourists and people with money coming here and thinking they owned the place. He said lived there and that we should tolerate his children. We tried to ignore them, but him, his wife and children persisted in shouting at us quite aggressively and wouldn't stop.

We decided to leave halfway through desert and received a very brief apology from our server as we paid the bill. At this point one of the staff members, that appeared senior went and sat next to the obnoxious family. I'd like to think he was 'having a word' about their behaviour but from the way this family had been talking I fear they were regulars.

We probably visit this restaurant 3 or 4 times a year and generally things are good, but in future I think we will start to look elsewhere. It's a shame really. :-(

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