L'Assaggio — Restaurant in Paris

Had dinner here on the Christmas Eve.

Atmosphere was nice but the placement of our table was not great. It was situated right next to the water cabinet. Being a Christmas Eve, the place was busy and due to the rush, the servers would open and close the cabinets harshly which made it really noisy.

From my experience, this place comes across as a set meal casual dining rather than fine dining.

Service was alright, server was nice. But upon arrival, there was no one to attend to us. After some time, someone came and asked us to sit by the entrance sofas. As we waited for at least 15minutes, it started to get ridiculous and we made our way to the counter to question why our table wasn’t ready. Only then, they checked and brought us to our table. Minus one star by then.

However, I must applaud a service staff who was much more professional and seemed to be the manager. He didn’t throw our plates on the table like other staffs did and also gently ensured our utensils were straight. He seemed to appeared halfway through the meal and was checking on every table when he can.

Food was..not good haha. Pumpkin cream with tangerine was alright but nothing interesting.

Starter, The carpaccio dish was warm and the amberjack fish was not tender. The whole plate felt..bland. I was also quite mad that the dish had a terribly sour lime and multiple seeds. Personally, I hate when chefs include ingredients solely for presentation. Because I actually thought the lime was supposed to go with the dish and tried to eat it, ffs.

Mains, Lobster ravioli was alright. The fillings and sauce was nice but the ravioli itself was undercooked so the pasta was hard and inedible.

Mains, Guinea fowl. Ive included photos of the uncooked meat. Also, I really don’t know what the meat filling was, but it was so dry and tasteless…Further, the truffles were not stuffed as described in menu, but instead grated on top of the meat. Mash potato was not creamy and fluffy..GRR

Dessert, Panettone with cinnamon ice cream. Couldn’t taste one bit of cinnamon and the panettone was as hard as a rock.

For $105pp, it was a waste of money. We also ordered couple of cocktails, which were alright but not tasty.

I did mention the food was not great to the server but he responded nonchalantly that it’s not for everyone. I get it though, because there are many who rate this place on google review, but I am just not one of them.

I will not be back. But not like...

I stopped in for lunch without looking at a menu because the pizza looked fairly OK in the display case. I ordered a margarita pizza right away again without consulting a menu thinking that it couldn't be more than 10 euro for a slice. The pizza itself was disappointing to say the least. Dry, very little mozzarella or basil on top. When I went to use the restroom I was accosted by the owner who interrogated me if I was sitting in the restaurant and would not let me pass until my server vouched that I was a customer and not someone just sneaking in to use the restroom. I have never been made to feel so embarrassed in a restaurant before. I immediately asked for the check and was shocked to find I that this pretty crummy pizza cost 17 euro. One of the worst dining experiences I...

Nice environment with a lovely inside courtyard terrace.

Unfortunately the food was severely underwhelming, especially we booked this restaurant through Michelin’s website.

Mocktail was watery and needed to be redone twice to get it right. Some staff barely understood any French, and they could use more staff during peak hours.

The asparagus pasta was almost “swimming” in oil and almost indigestible.

It’s definitely one of those “Instagram friendly” but with low ROI kind of...