Le Paradis du Fruit - George V — Restaurant in Paris

After reading the good reviews, we stopped in for dinner on a Monday night. The server offered to seat us on the small balcony that overlooks the old port, but I couldn't handle sitting a foot away from a smoker.

Sitting inside by a window with a great view, we ordered a couple of glasses of rosé. Our server also brought some tasty bites - chickpeas with mustard sauce, corn with some peppers, and seafood crostini. Turns out they don't have dinner on Monday nights, but they have ardois (literal translation "blackboard") which are protein-centric appetizers served on slate plates. We chose a sardine ardois and a beef carpaccio ardois. The beef carpaccio was thin round slices of beef with capers, pesto, and parmesan cheese. The sardine ardois was 4 sardines (French coast sized, not American sized) atop salad, served with a cut and toasted roll with tomato (similar to bruschetta). Considering the jet lag, it was just about a perfect portion size for a light dinner, particularly with the free tastes offered with drinks. After our ardois and the second round of wine, she brought more free tastes - this time a potato salad with curry and something else that made it yellow, cucumbers with goat cheese, and olive...

Ordered an $18 virgin mojito, which is a lot to pay for a virgin drink but I was prepared to pay the premium price for the location. However, 3/4 of the glass was ice so there was barely any of the actual drink in the glass. When I mentioned this to them, they completely disregarded the complaint saying “this is how mojitos are”. I’ve had many mojitos in my life and I’ve never seen one with this much ice. I asked if they could just add a bit more of the actual drink instead of the ice and the manager said he would see what he could do and then just proceeded to completely ignore me and never come back to the table, not even to tell me there was nothing he could do. I was completely ignored and no help was provided. Disgusting attitude at this restaurant and I would not recommend it to anyone. There are hundreds of better places in Paris to give...

We were seated immediately but it took at least 15 mins for anyone to notice and take our order. We spent a total of an hour here and watched 4 different parties come in, get seated, get ignored by the server for 10 mins, and left. 2 parties that had finished dining had to ask the hostess to chase down the server for their checks.

I went in search for the restroom, and found a group of servers hanging out near the back of the restaurant chatting. I asked a couple of them where the restroom was and with full comprehension of what I was asking, they told me 3 times that they don’t have a restroom. Finally, an unamused woman stepped out and told me where it was. The servers burst into giggles like it was the funniest thing they’d ever done.

Hopefully, this was a fluke experience with bad service here, but I certainly wouldn’t...