ANTIPASTO — Restaurant in Lyon

We were excited to come here based on the positive reviews and the menu offerings that seemed to vegetarian friendly. When we were greeted, it was a warm welcome and we felt optimistic. It was not busy and it looked like the service was fairly quick. We ordered a bottle of wine, two starters and our main courses. The wine came out quickly and then our starters were fairly quick to arrive. My husband had the arancini and I had the mozzarella sticks. His appetizer came with a nice truffle sauce. Mine came with nothing. They were simply dry fried mozzarella sticks. I had one and it was not bearable without something else. We waited over 15 minutes to try to get some attention of a server, which was difficult as they did not make eye contact. When I did ask for a marinara sauce or any type of Italian red sauce, they said they had mayonnaise or ketchup. We explained that we wanted more of a pasta sauce. After waiting another 5 to 10 minutes they did bring something out. We finished that fairly quickly at that point. We then sat and sat and sat, and no main courses came. It was over 45 minutes and then we finally decided that we needed to go. At first we requested that we be able to take it away and that even took too long so we ended up having to cancel our main courses as it was over an hour and a half...

Il y a des fois où on vit de belles expériences culinaires et humaines. On a vadrouillé dans le Parc de la Tête d'or toute la matinée avec deux enfants, on est un peu fatigué et nous sommes 4 avec armes et bagages. Que faire ? Où aller pour un petit moment de répit dans la folie touristique que nous nous imposons ? Et bien nous poussons la porte de cette taverne, sans trop y croire et nous tombons sur : une farandole de professionnalisme sur son lit de patience. Une chiffonnade de gentillesse et son butternut de qualité de service. Bref, nous avons tous les 4 très bien mangé.es et nous avons fait la rencontre, que dis-je, la trouvaille du sieur Jean-Baptiste. Un chevalier, mais non, un templier du service et de l'accueil qui, contre vents et marées au beau milieu d'un coup de feu apocalyptique, a su renverser totalement le sens de la bataille et nous offrir une expérience des plus sympathiques. Quand on voit un serveur se démener comme lui, courir, voler, se dédoubler, sans perdre son calme et sa bonne humeur, cela force le respect. Donc merci à toi Jean-Baptise pour cet effort, merci à la cuisine pour la qualité des plats, des sauces et de la cuisson des pâtes (oui oui, on vous a vu). Tu as fait le bonheur d'une petite fille de 5 ans et le nôtre. Parce qu'en plus, nous sommes revenus le lendemain, et ce fut...pareil. De la délicatesse, du buon mangiare et la découverte de Mina, toute aussi épatante que Jean-Baptiste. Bref, de bons souvenirs que ce court mais riche week-end lyonnais. Et bien sûr, le "tiramisu" à la louche, exceptionnel et qui n'a jamais aussi bien mérité son nom. Ne changez rien.

P.S : Lina me dit de rappeler à Jean-Baptiste qu'il est, je cite : "gentil comme...

Terrible experience that spoiled my impression about Lyon and the whole Sunday afternoon: i was informed i need to wait for my food for 30 min. However, after 50 min waiting i inquired when my food would be ready to figure out the order had never been communicated to the kitchen. Strongly advise against visiting this place unless you are ready to wait for uncertain time with no guarantee the food will be ever ready. I had to leave cause they said i will need to wait other 30 min, no...