Restaurant Poisson — Restaurant in Cologne

Poisson in Köln, well that was a score! This city has sooo many options to chose from, its hard to decide. Especially when you are there just for 2 nights. So for lunch we opted for a meal at Poisson. Smack bang in the middle of Köln, near all the shops, with covered parking next door. We started with an apero, which came with a tasty treat from the open kitchen. On to chose wine (how can any meal go wrong with a Meursault) and some very fresh oysters to go with it. Good start with very attentive and friendly service. Onwards and upwards we decide to share some dishes in the middle. Gamba to begin with and we loved the garlic and chili; subtle but there. Followed by the calamaretti and this is how you want it..... moist, well seasoned and enough juices to mop up with the lovely bread! For the finale the fish curry, reccomended by our server as their favorite dish. We would travel here againjust for this curry, beautiful pieces of tender fish and just the right "wow" as an aftertaste. As the service was so fab, they devided the portion in 2 smaller bowls as we were sharing our portions. Lovely steamed rice to go along. Dessert was a well executed creme brulee. Worth your trip. Having been from Vendôme (2*) to a local Greek retaurant, Possion is now on our go to list and worth your time in...

We had a group of three ready to dine and enjoy the evening. Throughout the evening the service was just bad. We ordered the big menu for everyone. The waiters brought the food to table and never said anything. It would have been helpful if someone would have said what it is we are eating... or anything at all.

When we finally asked the waiter about this behaviour she did not apologize and instead decided to start argue with us about if she needs to tell customers or not. Eventually one of the chefs served us the dessert and told us everything about the items each of us ordered. We tipped that guy 50€.

tl;dr Good...

Food was absolut gorgeous. Service was a little strange for a high level place like this The headwaiter was not particularly focused on us as we ordered...his attention seemed elsewhere.

And the 2 waitresses were not fully alert to guests potentially wanting their attention, instead seemed to be "staring into the void" a lot if the time . But as i said, the food was absolutely stunning, and worth another visit giving the waiting staff to up their game to match the standard of the food When you pay top dollar in a restaurant, you expect top dollar aervice as well as top dollar foiod. For that reason it is 4 stars...