Il Parasole — Restaurant in Lisieux

Pizzeria from Hell

Honfleur is full of tourist trap-like restaurants where you almost sit on each other's laps. After searching for 45 minutes, we finally found a pizzeria with 2 seats on the terrace. So we reported to the waitress inside and asked her if it was okay for us to sit outside. After waiting for 20 minutes, it turned out that the waitress had forgotten about us. We opted for the formula starter, main course and dessert and two glasses of beer. We had to wait another 15 minutes for the beer. The starter came without cutlery and napkin, but because we didn't feel like waiting any longer, we just ate it with our fingers. After the starter was finished, the waitress came to ask us again which pizzas we had ordered. We also asked for cutlery and she admitted that she had forgotten it. While waiting for the pizza, we were attacked by dozens of mosquitoes and we fled inside where a table had become available. There were also a lot of mosquitoes inside. The crust of the two pizzas was burnt and the base was tough. The burnt taste was masked by the cheese and salami. It was the worst pizza I have ever eaten. They could do no wrong with the dessert, but even there the almond flakes were burnt. If you want to eat in Honfleur, you are better off going to the local Lidl supermarket for a baguette, some cheese and a bottle of wine. Chances are you will have eaten better than in one of the many...

Do NOT go here if you want have a nice evening. We were here during our holiday and it was such a disappointment. They let us wait half an hour for our drinks and a whole hour for our starters and after 2 hours in this restaurant, we still had not received our main course. The Pinot Grigio was served warm in a dirty glass. The hot goats cheese and the bread it was served on was all cold (!) and the carpaccio was tasteless and watery - how is that even possible with beef? Both were absolutely not edible. We waited for our main courses in vain (just a pizza and a pasta). When we asked the waitress how much longer it would be, she did not know and did not care. So we decided to leave. We were then kept waiting even longer while another waiter handled our bill, by demonstratively slow erasing items from our bill one by one by one by one…. only for them not to charge us anything. He could have told us this right away and let us leave immediately. And considering this terrible experience, that we did not have to pay for our 1 beer and 1 glass of terrible wine is the bare minimum in my opinion. In the end we finally were able to leave this place, but it was so late, that we could not go anywhere else for dinner and went to bed hungry. A complete disaster and the evening was...

We have previously visited il parasole a quite a few times before and it has always been pleasant. However our most recent visit was bad from start to finish, it was total chaos and nobody seemed to be taking charge. Our Fritto misto starters were stodgy and not nice at all. Then we waited ages for our mains, two pizzas arrived and nothing else. Then about 10 minutes later a pasta dish. We then waited at least another 30 minutes for my mums pasta. We asked 4 different members of staff and were just told ‘it’s coming’ no apology. When it eventually came it was awful and she couldn’t even eat it. We asked for water twice which never came, I asked for lemonade twice which didn’t come. The pizzas crusts were totally black and inedible. The wine glasses on the table were also filthy. We left without having dessert from the set menu and unfortunately now won’t return. Plenty of other nice restaurants...