Le Congrès Maillot

Arrived at the restaurant around 2:30pm. There were few customers sitting in different parts of this spacious restaurant. The decorations were nice and welcoming.

We were welcome with a warm smile at the front desk and shown to our table at a corner facing the subway station. Another waiter took order. Yet another waiter attended to us. All was good until our main dish orders were recorded wrongly.

Three of us. We ordered oysters, two steaks and one fish. We specifically stated the doneness of the beef.

After we finished with the oysters, we were served the cutleries of our main dishes. We were given cutleries for one steak and two fish.

We told our waiter that we ordered two steaks and one fish. He went to the machine to check. He wasn't the one who took our order though. And what was shocking was he just ignored our query and pretended nothing happened.

We were served one steak and two fish dishes. We didn't argue as we had communication barriers. Language, race, culture, etc.

But the dishes were tasty. I ordered a steak, but given a fish. The fish was good. Hence one star rating. Otherwise, no star.

The desserts, creme brulee and floating island were average.

When we asked for drinking water, pointing to the one jug of water on the table of another patrons, the waiter wanted to get that bottle of water to serve us. I guessed he was joking. But he looked so serious. I couldn't be sure.

Then when we were given the check, he told us he was going home after that. Signalling that we should pay him soon?

I really wondered why such bad attitudes. No apologies for getting the orders wrong?