limmat — Restaurant in Marseille

What I wrote last year: Limmat is an owner run food temple with a signature style menu that combines deli with organic food lab, making comfort food with local fresh ingredients with tongue in cheek references to classical French cuisine. This place comes highly recommended and has one of the most amazing views en plus. I need to add this in 2024: So happy this place has stayed true to its original spirit. That means enthusiasm, taste, readiness, value for money, fresh ingredients and originality. I sat inside and for one thing it allowed me to see: These people are a family and a team. It shows in every aspect of what they bring. What they offer: Don’t expect microscopic detail. Expect real food with fresh ingredients, miraculously heightened to perfection in a small kitchen by two talented chefs. All under the watchful eye of Lilian who is the Swiss owner. I think Lilian is a chef who has mastered the art of trusting other people to translate her vision into their own cooking and hospitality skills. And this might be the secret formula of Limmat: Talent attracts talent and leads to quality, progress and sustainability. Expect great combinations, just a little off the beaten path, yet close enough for those who identify as classic. And expect a little bit of love in your plate. When was the last time you tasted food brought to you with love? Apart from all of the above Limmat still has the most spectacular view of Marseille. A must go to place...

Excellent food. The staff, however, intellectually more similar to dogs, only with poorer manners. First signs of problems came 3 hours before our reservation. A missed call from our hosts (we were in church) was followed up simply with a text that read "??" (a response i sometimes get from boyfriend after saying we need to talk). After the conversational heavy lifting of "Is there a problem, yes we will attend our reservation this evening" (the follow up was simply "oui"), we arrived at the agreed upon time. Announced our arrival to the dazed waiter, we were suitably and promptly ignored, by which he greeted us, acknowledged our existence, and went back to merrily chatting with his amis. "Excuse me, but where should we sit?" There was a vague hand wave at most of the tables, before a clearer prompt to a chair quite clearly in front of the main door of the restaurant. This was not a problem he was willing to care about, apparently. From that point onwards the experience marginally improved (I think this waiter went for a lie down and was replaced with a waitress slightly higher up the Glasgow Coma scale). Food good, staff awful, go if you enjoy being ignored by men in trucker hats...

The food was interesting in parts but could have been done a lot better. We accept that there won’t be too many dishes at this type of place but not a lot of dietary requirements are looked after, 2 of the 3 veg dishes were very bread heavy. We weren’t asked about allergies, we mentioned there were two vegetarians and the staff just slapped down the plates without telling us what was what. The attitude of the staff negatively affected our experience. Normally at this type of place you get a bit of an explanation of the menu as well as a description of what’s come as it arrived. Also we weren’t given sharing plates at a sharing plates restaurant. Overall this was a bad experience for us but I think could be a good experience given the right set of conditions. @the staff, please be a bit kinder to the patrons. We are also working class people that have saved really hard to be able to come to...