La Compagnie Française — Restaurant in Toulouse

Im not quite sure where I stand with this restaurant to be quite frankly honest. I was greeted by a rushed but suave looking waiter who made me feel as if i was an afterthought upon entry when he rudely conversed with another worker whilst guiding me to my seat. This made me feel like the court jester of this establishment as people watched on at me in amazement at how one could be so rude. Once i had been ushered away to my seat i was disappointed to find flimsy wicker seats which howled tremendously with every slight movement. I must also add that the tables (if they even be called that) must have been taken from a hobbit as oversized plates and bizzare cutlery crammed my table leaving me feeling unequipped for the task at hand. Overall the service was generally adequate, however plates were not given out to seperate members of pur party during pur shared starter which meant we had to fight for scraps of stale bread deilvering a top tier french proletariat experience. Now where do i even begin with the dry rubbery mess these frauds calls calamari. Firstly the "calamari" arrived less than a minute after we orderd which may sound appealing at first. But when you consider the processes behind cooking calamari makes you realise this was likely a microwaved meal which had been bravely dished up and served to us at a premium price. Now when it when it came to eating the sad excuse for calamari i eas far from pleased as upon reaching my teeth i immediately knew it was coated in breadcrumbs not batter confirming my prior suspicions. I also must add one ring exploded in mouth relasing an otherwoldly saltly substance creating a terrible mess on the table (as they were still no plates) and creating a foul stench which deterred people from eating further. Now the pizzas, I don't have a whole lot to say about these as they were pretty bog standard, the tomato sauce was obviously out of pasta sauce pot and was lathered on to the dough until it came out the other side in a wet mess, the other toppings were all up to par and the overall presentation wasn't overly negative.Overall...

It’s quite beautiful. Colors, chairs of blue velvet and lots of gold and black. We wanted pasta but the menu only proposed very complicated preparations. Too many ingredients and sometimes not the right ones. Cream in the Carbonara ??? Hell no ! And no Guanciale ? Hello ? A fast talking waiter took our order. Two cocktails, two first courses, two main courses and a bottle of natural red wine (the only bottle on the list that mentioned “nature”). I asked the waiter if it it was indeed a natural wine and he asked “what’s a natural wine ?”. I didn’t ask anymore questions. The cocktails arrived about ten minutes later. The waiter asked if he should open the wine too, I said yes (so it could breathe) and… the first courses arrived !!! Before we had even tasted our cocktails ! Bad timing !! There we were with negronis on ice, and pasta to eat ?! That’s not normal. The rest of the menu was fine, and the pasta was nice (we asked them to take our two ingredients from each and it was quite good) but desserts were so so.

Next to us were two thin and a bit mature American ladies who just shared a pizza with two glasses of wine. That’s all they could eat as they told me they don’t eat “like before”. We sympathised quite a lot. The waiter brought them the dessert list but they were not hungry so when he came back and asked “qu’est-ce que vous avez choisi”, they replied “Rien, Merci” and the waiter replied “ah yes, that’s at the top of the list” and walked away. I thought that was VERY rude and uncalled for.

This added to the RUSH in which they served the food while we still had to drink our negronis makes it a NO on my...

Exceptional food but really bad service. The person attending to was super cold in welcoming us giving us the table. We went here for dinner to specifically try the cheese wheel pasta. It costs 31€ per person and has to be ordered for 2 people. We also got some cocktails. It definitely was a luxurious meal for us and for that, we expected better service. The pasta was made next to us but it didn’t look professional at all. One plate had so much more pasta than the other. He then took out a box of truffles. Which again was not split equally between the plates. The platting was really off.

The food tasted wonderful though. The pasta was perfectly cooked and the quantity...