Ô petit pau — Restaurant in Pau

For a 4.6 star average review this place sure was disappointing. The “crab and crayfish toast” entree was a cheap version of something that could have been fine tuned. Not crab. Not crayfish and not even on toast just a piece of limp bread heaped with mayo (no doubt the cheapest ingredient). Then the rump of the porc cooked sous vide in advance but barely cooked and rushed out of the blaster oven after 1-2 mins meant it had zero caramelization on the exterior and once more the majority of the plate was filled (why fill the plate if you are a 4.6 star place???) with artichoke creme unnecessarily, not even foam, but still a thick glutinous cream. It made the whole dish seem like a piece of raw unfinished pig had invaded an artichoke soup. Very unrefined. I arrived at 8:30pm and the restaurant was half empty but still I was placed as a single cover at a “bar” where it was very uncomfortable and next to a sliding door which announced the customer toilet. Here 5 weeks in Pau and this was the worst place I have visited yet. One very young slave doing all of the “cooking”. Beware nothing is cooked fresh. You’d think with an open kitchen they would be front and centre entertaining. Nope they let one guy plop pre-cooked sous-vide meats from pre bagged status onto a plate and slam it in a blaster oven to give the effect of freshly made. Meanwhile a sniffling bearded gent employee wipes his nose with his fingers every 10 secs and saunters in and out of the premises like he has some kind of prestige. One young and older maître d are very charming and do their best and tbh this was the best part of this dinner. The ONLY reason I gave 2 stars instead of 1 was the effort from...

We were disappointed with our recent visit to O Petit Pau. We have eaten here a number of times before and we've always thought it was great food, great service and good value for money. However, we went for dinner last Friday and unfortunately the service wasn't great. We were offered a drink for an apéro, but once we'd finished, we weren't offered another. The main courses were underseasoned and expensive for what we got. Then, we ordered dessert and waited for 45 mins/an hour for the desserts to arrive, but apparently there was a bug on the system and the order hadn't gone through. We weren't offered any compensation (free drink/dessert etc). Sorry for giving negative feedback, because usually we love this restaurant. Hoping that it will be better next time we come as it's a great location and usually the service and food is...

I have made a reservation online for 18:45, and I reconfirmed my reservation because I was asked to do so by the reservation system. However, in fact the restaurant does not open until 19:00, and when we go over to ask about what was wrong about the reservation, we got unfriendly "it is full, you're reservation is for the other sister restaurant across the street le comptoir o petit pau" which is not true. I do not understand how difficult it could be for a restaurant to check their online reservation system and make...