Le Petit Mousse — Restaurant in Montpellier

About the place: The ambience is nice, it has good lightning and the terrace is attractive. Though, there's nothing very extraordinary about the design. There was also a pigeon flying and walking inside the establishment while there was people eating.

About the service: The servers were nice, the food a little long to arrive, we waited for around 20 to 25 minutes. Nothing to complain about, and nothing that stands out, average.

About the food: I ordered salmon from the marine menu, which was accompanied with risotto, cauliflower, some sort of humus and a balsamic drizzle. The salmon was a bit dry, it didn't have much seasoning to It, it was somewhat plain. The risotto was tacky when the plate came, not creamy and was also under-seasoned. The humus was seasoned, but the combination didn't really align with the rest of the plate. And finally, the cauliflower was extremely over-seasoned, almost overwhelming, you were hit by the strong smell of pepper and cumin coming from it, it shadowed the smell of even the salmon itself. The balsamic drizzle was not it for me, the sweet hint to it was off place with what the plate was in the first place. There was also different type of seasoned oils in the plate that just didn't make sense at all with the dish.

Overall experience:

It's very average as a restaurant, the food is not as good as it's possibly advertised and even overpriced, there's better...

De passage à Palavas nous décidons de s’arrêter pour manger au petit mousse qui a l’air très accueillant avec des plats de qualités. Rien à dire sur l’accueil du serveur qui est très gentil et à l’air d’avoir envie de travailler. Concernant le plat.. moules au roquefort qui ne sont pas laver, je fais constater ça au serveur qui prend la peine de s’excuser et de nous changer les moules, malheureusement il me ramène un autre plat mais au final la même chose… les moules ne sont pas laver… il m’explique qu’il y peuvent rien et que les moules sont reçu comme ça… bref. Il m’indique qu’il va essayer de voir avec son responsable (la personne du bar) pour faire un petit geste. Mis à part ça, les repas des enfants (nuggets de poulet) était bon.

J’arrive à la caisse, je tombe sur le soit disant ”responsable”… et la, il m’a bien fait rire. Il me donne l’addition, je vois qu’aucun geste n’a été effectué. Je lui pose donc la question, il ose me répondre qu’un geste a déjà été effectué en changeant le plat de moules.. Je suis d’accord ! Sauf que ce même plat, était tout aussi infecte que le premier. Il me répond : de toute façon, aucune négociation possible il faudra régler l’addition comme ça.

Manque de professionnalisme du soit disant responsable qui ne reconnaît même pas la faute ? C’est triste…. Le restaurant a l’air pourtant très accueillant et chaleureux… En tout cas encore merci au serveur qui s’est occuper de nous qui lui a fait preuve de professionnalisme et...

Awesome restaurant on the banks of the river. All the food was amazing but especially the grilled octopus risotto, Joels and the moules gratinees. The staff were super attentive nothing was a problem for them and massive thank you to Louis our waiter who looked after us taught us more French words recommended the Moules gratinees (which where amazing) and he spoke great English. Highly recommended and will be eating here again next time we are...