Chez Totoch — Restaurant in Marseille

This place was completely and totally FIRE. Seriously. Amazing. First we were like, ‘oh there’s no people here, is that a red flag’ because all other restaurants along the pier were packed. But we said ‘fuck it let’s go eat here’ and committed, sitting down as the only people at this restaurant. Our waiter gave us menus. We ordered a shrimp pasta dish. Then the true experience began. We were served a bowl with a wet wipe in it. I was confused—did the waiter think my hands were dirty? I was also confused because pasta isn’t finger food??? Anyway, our meal came quickly and the second that pasta dish hit our table, people started POURING into the restaurant. It filled up so fast and quick that the waiters had to set more tables out. The mussels in our dish were AMAZING, but the true difficulty was the shrimp: we didn’t know how to eat it. Context clues (the wet wipe) made us believe that this was where our hands came in. A French couple next to us started laughing as we were knuckle deep in our saucy shrimp, trying to open the suckers. When I looked embarrassed, the woman said “it’s okay, it’s not easy…” and then pointedly looked away from our sauce covered hands. But we were in too deep now. We mangled the shrimp in our hands, trying to eat the meat. It was so good. We polished off the pasta and felt satiated (but embarrassed because of our lack of familiarity with how to eat shrimp). When we left the restaurant, it was full of happy people eating delicious food. We googled how to eat shrimp and have been thoroughly educated now. It’s not easy. But choosing this restaurant can be… eat here during your...

The food was bad: Served burnt rice stuck together and hard. Toilet is dirty. The waitress was nice however the chef told us the rice was fine and would not accept the clearly awful food we had been served.

**in reply so you can’t hoodwink others - I ate less than half as you know, only the small amount of vegetables that came with it, hence why you gave me 5euros off. I added oil as you said your mayonnaise had gluten in it. Rice isn’t clumped together and brown just because it’s cold and you only gave me that as you had no quinoa, the main base of the salad. You really should be ashamed serving food like that and then lying in response to an...

I visited this restaurant in September 2023. My partner decided to dine here while I preferred the poké nearby. The waitstaff kept asking my partner for “go be with your wife”, and “go try over there”. After more rude comments, it was clear that they did not welcome Black customers. People really do reflect society, but these things are never any less jarring....