Bar de la Croix Rouge — Restaurant in Paris

Along with so many others here, we were treated very rudely by two different waiters. We are polite people and both speak French, but were treated to surly and miserable waiters who got our small and simple order wrong an astonishing three times. At that point they blamed us for not confirming what they had repeated back. Maybe try writing it down at first? It takes no more than a couple of months to learn how to be a waiter at a simple brasserie like this, but 20 years to perfect being a miserable human. After this, with our daughters on their first ever visit to Paris, we never went to another of these semi-formal cafés and instead frequented only informal places with young staff. How to give...

My wife needed water quite badly so we sat at the almost empty restaurant and ordered an espresso and carafe of water. The tall, thin haired, large waiter looked at us for a moment, then told us “no, one espresso for two is not possible” then walked away. We live in Paris, one of the joys of this city is being able to sit, have an espresso, and that be enough. Especially in an empty restaurant in the middle of a Tuesday. So, my recommendation is to leave him as lonely as he looks, and go somewhere welcoming, there are wonderful, welcoming restaurants in Paris...

Very rude manager/owner ignored my partner when we tried to order drinks. We left because we were made to wait too long to order (note: we didn’t order anything nor have any water or bread etc for the table, so no money was due) However, as we stood to leave the manager/owner shouted at us for leaving and then proceeded to chase us down in the street yelling at us for leaving. Again - we had ordered nothing and had received no ‘complimentary’ table items like...