Café de la Mairie - Restaurant brasserie à Montpellier — Restaurant in Montpellier

I had high hopes for this place. It's in a beautiful part of Montpellier, quaint and lovely. My salad entree was excellent, the main of steak and chips looked great but I had asked for medium rare and received blue steak, which didn't really bother me except that when it was returned to the kitchen it came back basically the same. With the language barrier, I decided it was too hard to revisit this again, and I instead ate around the uncooked part, leaving most of my meal uneaten. I'd expected a question or comment from the staff but nothing happened when they collected the meal even though it was very obviously 20% eaten. I also have an onion and garlic allergy, which was made very clear. However, I am now certain that one of the sauces contained one of those ingredients, given my reaction to the food. I think if I had probed further, they would have made the steak sauce with an onion or garlic based stock. I had expected more diligence than this in a nice restaurant, particularly when it's made very clear that a customer has an allergy (really concerning). Despite what seems to be slightly more care given by the waitstaff than what is standard in France, this experience was quite disappointing. I could imagine some things are done well, so perhaps it is hit...

Had very subpar food here. The current 4.6 star reviews on Google don’t correspond to the experience in my opinion. Had a medium steak that came out rubbery and chewy. The turkey in bacon tasted just like pure bacon. The burger was OK. The french fries are decent, though.

Somehow the representation of the meal isn’t clean, didn’t quite feel like a nice restaurant approach, while still having solid restaurant prices. The waiter didn’t feel like a restaurant waiter - there was something casual and careless in his demeanor. And when I complained about the beef, first thing he mentioned is that the other 4 people around us who ordered the same thing didn’t complain about it.

It’s not a 1 star review because I did get a discount for the beef (50%), but still the experience is disappointing. If you want to spend a nice evening at a nice restaurant, you might want to look elsewhere to be on a safer side.

I think I had better steak and food overall at the U.S. chain steakhouses and chain restaurants, which to begin with aren’t famous with being exquisite with their food. Coming from the U.S, and paying as much money at this restaurant, I expected a...

Montpellier really has some amazing food, the produce is amazing and this shows in the food.

This is why I actually wrote this review, it is beyond me how this restaurant can have such great ingredients and yet make some of the worst food I’ve had.

We started with the sea snails that were fresh but they didn’t clean them properly so they were sandy eww. We then had an expensive tomato salad that was meh at best and the tomatoes were borderline too ripe.

And the the mains, I went for a meat veal dish that was so dry and rubbery it actually hurt my throat , the sauce was watery and bland. my partner went for some squid that was okay at best, it was just oil garlic and squid with some seasoning. Meh.

The service was friendly but very slow, I ordered ketchup for my chips that never arrived.

Worst meal of the whole trip, if you like food. Avoid...