Le Café Plume — Restaurant in Paris

THIS CATERPILLAR DID NOT TURN INTO A BUTTERFLY :-/ Not sure about how everyone’s eating habits, but I usually eat my salad after eating my burger, and while I was doing just that, on a beautiful, sunny Saturday in Paris, I found a beautiful, fresh, glowing caterpillar in my salad, about 3cm long. I patiently wait for a memeber of the staff to come around and point out the incredible discovery: he jokes about it as if he’s going to eat it, the funny guy, he then proceeds to the kitchen and comes back saying they were going to knock my Sprite off the bill. Funny guy, again. I ask to talk to the manager, but the young lady doesn’t even bother coming upstairs, apparently I have to go downstairs to talk to her, she’s outside smoking a cigarette, soaking in that beautiful vitamin D, telling me it’s perfectly normal for something like this to happen. Yes, it does happen with the salad from my father’s garden, shouldn’t happen at a restaurant my dear. I explain this to her, and demand that the burger gets knocked off the bill, surprisingly enough I gotta argue about my point though. It was a table of 6, with children and a pregnant girl among us, what if she ate it? I’m sure it’s a delicacy somewhere in the world, but I did ask for a burger that day, not a caterpillar in my food. Not a single word of apology comes from her, I’m wrong, she’s right, but she finally agrees to knocking that 17€ burger off the bill, thank god, my finances are safe now. On the other hand, a very sad note: that caterpillar never turned into a butterfly,...

I visited this restaurant for lunch yesterday and had one of the worst dining experiences I’ve ever encountered. I ordered the shrimp risotto, which seemed like a safe choice, but I later had an allergic reaction because it contained pine nuts—a detail that was not disclosed on the menu. As someone with a nut allergy, this is an incredibly serious issue. Thank goodness there was a pharmacy next door because I started breaking out in hives and needed to treat my reaction immediately.

When I brought it up to the server, her response was dismissive and unprofessional. First, she denied there were pine nuts in the dish, and when I insisted, she casually asked, “Isn’t it on the menu?” I showed her that it wasn’t, but instead of apologizing or escalating the issue to a manager, she offered no resolution—no discount, no acknowledgment of the risk they had posed to my health.

As if that wasn’t enough, my cousin and I saw a mouse scurry across the floor. When we informed the server, her response was shockingly nonchalant: “Oh wow, where?” After pointing out the location, we left, but to our disbelief, she seated another table in the exact same spot just minutes later. No effort was made to address the situation.

This restaurant doesn’t just fail in customer service—it’s a hazard to public health. Between the lack of transparency about ingredients, the dismissive staff, and the blatant hygiene issues, I strongly advise anyone to stay far away...

Easily one of the worst dining experiences of my life.

Even before we started eating, things didn't start smoothly: the restrooms were not ok. The garbage bin was full to thee point of overflowing and the whole ground was smeared in used paper.

As for food, can't really attest to the brunches or snacks as we only dined in, and we got the duck and steak with pepper sauce.

The duck was stone cold and the side sauce was clearly bottled, or at the very least very bland.

The steak.. my lord, the stake. It made me want to go vegetarian. No animal deserves the suffering it undergoes to then be treated that way: beaten and battered until there was nothing left to chew on but the nerves themselves (of which there were quite a few), drowsed and drenched in pepper until there was nothing else to taste.

To top it off, a Moscow mule that boiled down to a cup of lemon juice (bottled, obviously) with a barely noticeable drizzle of vodka.

Average prices for the zone but not worth it in...