Café George V

Worst meal we had in Paris. The only thing that is keeping this from being a one star review was the fact that our waiter gave us good service.

Food was mediocre. I ordered chicken curry with pasta substituted with rice and my girlfriend ordered a steak. I am a bodybuilder and need to count my macro intake so I know how large the portions are precisely. I was given about 200 grams of rice in a small bowl to go with my curry but that wasn't enough for me so I ordered two more bowls. These bowls were small, so I was expecting them to be proportionately priced. When the bill came, I saw that I was charged 7 euros for two bowls of rice! That's absurd even if this is on the Champs Elysees.

Furthermore, my girlfriend's steak was very hard to chew. It made me upset that she couldn't enjoy a proper meal. When I brought it up to the waiter, he had to call his manager. Now, if this happened in the US, the establishment should allow you to change the dish to something else of your liking. After all, you're unsatisfied with the dish because there's clearly something wrong with it. However, the manager blamed it on us. We ordered a medium rare steak and he claimed that this was too rare and that that caused the chewiness. I'm sorry but in what world does cooking a steak medium rare ruin the steak? We went along with him since he was persistent. He came back with a slightly more cooked steak, but it was even worse now. Obviously they had no intention on fixing the problem.

At this point we lost all hope in the establishment. We left half of the steak for them to dump. When the bill came, we saw that we were charged 7 euros for the rice and an absurd amount for water as well. Overall, not a pleasant experience.