The Bird — Restaurant in Nîmes

Embarrassing. This cost 25€. I looked at the plate of other guests and they were served full plates - even with more salad.

This is the third time I’ve tried them out and it’s the same horrible experience even after taking a break from them for a few years. I gave them a try again because of the invitation of a friend. I was hoping for the best, but sadly their immortality remains as strong as ever. I am served food like I am a tourist who doesn’t know any better.

They’re so desperate for money that they lack ethics and morality to serve all their customers the same quality of food. They sell the off cuts to people they think won’t notice.

Kid cooks in the back who look like they’re hanging out at recess doesn’t help matters.

Meanwhile, the servers put on overly saccharin friendliness knowing full well they are in the process of cheating you.

Sadly, this has become the way of French restaurants.

Using English words in your name and menu in an effort to be “cool” and meanwhile you lack quality, authenticity and integrity. Get your priorities straight.

How can this country have Italy and Spain on either side of it and yet the food here remains so consistently bad?? Italians and Spanish are still actually cooking and taking time to build flavor and not wasting time with gimmicks like putting “The” in front of every menu item.

Working in the restaurant industry and exploring world cuisine and knowing the ins and outs of the industry, tonight’s experience proves again how far France has fallen in not just food but in actual pride. No one with a sense of real pride (and not empty arrogance) serves food like this. How do you sleep at night?

Also, who serves undercooked pork? If that was what it even was. Mon dieu.

France, please stop resting on your past laurels and do better. Your food was once great, sure. Now it’s absolute overpriced, tasteless, lazy, factory-made horror.

Go on. Deny it....

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