Camélia — Restaurant in Paris

Restaurant inside M.O. where I stayed for 3 nights.

TLDR; not bad but one of the worst value to price ratio restaurants I’ve probably ever been. Would be expected for a typical average brassiere-standard but this place is 3-4x the price.

Pros:

Practical if you’re a guest of MO to walk downstairs and have a decent meal

Servers are friendly and kind, very nice.

Cons:

Servers are nice but super undertrained. I’m sure this is like a training ground for the 2* Thierry Marx restaurant also on the hotel premise.

Then the senior staff graduate to the better restaurant so this one is constantly super weak sauce.

For example, all the dishes are brought mixed up so they give your dish to your friend, and proceed to mix everything else up.

No one refills your wine glass or water from your $200 bottle of wine.

It was almost like a bit of a running joke because at the end they mixed up all of our jackets too lol

Lunch menu and dinner menu, all the same menu. Limited options.

The entree with egg was like a total fail. Both of my guests said it taste kind of like eating a giant raw onion. Afterwards both reeked of onion hahah.

This restaurant used to be super good actually from the dishes to presentation and everything. I guess after Covid the manager left or something or got laid off because the food is really non creative and...

Came in for a dinner on a Saturday night. Before we sat down we told the kitchen staff that one of us is pescatarian and whether they can switch the veal in the tasting menu with a fish. He said yes. Once we sat down and wanted to order one regular tasting menu and one with fish, the chef sent a message with the waiter that both of us would have to get fish. We asked if we came in to the restaurant individually would they accommodate the pescatarian menu request for one of us? They said yes. So it didn’t make sense why they couldn’t make this simple change, especially given the reputation of this place. Anyways we ended up ordering a la carte. My husband got the veal and I got the mackerel. The fish and the veggies were very bland and lacked flavor. The presentation was beautiful, but the food was tasteless. He didn’t love his veal either. We got Paris Brest for dessert. It was good - 7/10.

The best part of this restaurant is service. The hostess Irina was extremely friendly and accommodating. She was so sweet and courteous. However, the food...

If we could give 6 out of 5 stars, we absolutely would. Meziane was truly exceptional. From the moment we sat down, he treated our family with such care, attention, and precision—it felt like we were being looked after by someone who genuinely cared about making our experience unforgettable.

He anticipated every need before we even had to ask and struck the perfect balance between professionalism and warmth. Our children were made to feel just as important as the adults at the table, which speaks volumes about the kind of service Meziane delivers. Every recommendation was spot on, and every interaction left us smiling.

Camélia is lucky to have someone like Meziane on their team. He made our dinner not just a meal,...