Me and my friends came there yesterday night at 10 PM and asked for a seat, unfortunately there was no place. They got my friendâs phone number and told us that they would call us as soon as there was a free table. In that time we changed bar and waited. At almost 1 AM we decided to come back to drink the last glass. First of all the waiter told my friend that she tried to call him but no phone call was ever made, and that can be fine thinking about the amount of work they had that night, but it was still lie. After we asked if it was still possible to drink something and the waiter told us yes but just for 30 minutes because they were going to close at 1:30. We said yes and got inside to choose our wine by the glass. They treated us very poorly, no one explained a single thing about the wine we were going to buy, even if we tried to understand something about it. The waiter made try the wine just to half of us and to the rest he just gave the glass and that was it. He also said something in English about being rude and when we asked to repeat he laughed at our face. We got our wine by the glass and went outside to drink. They gave me a pet nat for 9 euro, and considering that pet nat is usually one of the cheapest at every wine bar I found the fact very strange but proceeded to pay anyways. After that I stated to the waiter that we werenât really happy about the service and she said yes I know but I told you guys that we were closing. This was false because the bar closes at 1:30 AM and she even said to us that we could stay, for 30 minutes, but we could stay. She made me feel uncomfortable and stupid because she repeatedly continued to say false statements and contradicting me even if 8 people (my friends) were there with me and witnessed everything they said before and after. I think that this treatment was conditioned by our age, we are 20 and thatâs okay to be surprised to see such young people at a natural wine bar, but we do this for passion and some of us even study gastronomy so I find this treatment very offensive. I will never came back to this place because I donât believe in this type of service and restauration. Everyone should be treated equally even if they are young and they can seem unexperienced, we are all here to learn and try and the wine world is so huge and beautiful that I believe that places like this should try to be open to everyone and give the opportunity to learn. This is not the case; a place of hypocrisy were natural wine is seen as way to make money by riding a...
   Read moreI went with great joy to drink wine but then I experienced a very bad day.This restaurant is blocking unlawfully the pedestrian street on the right side and when the humble workers by the cleaning service by the Athens Munucipality arrived they could not pass due to the blockage of the tables .They then stood out of the car to complain and that was the most brutal moment I faced in such a "classy"wine bar.An attitude of superiority and arrogance towards people that told them "You don't let us clean this city,you block the street,let us pass"I was a witness and took video out of my shock.We go usually to wine bars for high quality of not just taste but mainly attitude amd aesthetics,the food was below average,plates small and expensive the wine was good but overall I don't support business that do not respect either the historic area of Athens but more importantly I can't accept how low they fell when they answered in such rudeness to the cleaning service of Munucipality.The most shocking was that they did it openly in front of us the clients without any remorse ..We went to the Munucipality right after to declare the incident.They verified that the extra chairs were placed without any permission by the Munucipality.Kindly ask you to think twice to support any business that exploits public space and behaves rudely to proud people who keep Athens...
   Read more   Read moreLa cuisine Ă©tait bonne, sans prise de risque mais rien Ă redire. Le vin Ă©tait dĂ©licieux. Les prix sont français, compter en gros 12 - 19e pour des petites assiettes Ă partager, notre vin Ă©tait Ă 44e. Le service quant Ă lui Ă©tait une catastrophe, des erreurs en chaĂźne occasionnant des latences Ă toutes les Ă©tapes, et un manque de professionnalisme (posture) qui nâa rien arrangĂ©. Le dĂ©tail ci-dessous. Je prĂ©cise que je ne me donnerais pas cette peine si la serveuse en fin de repas nâavait pas essayĂ© de mâexpliquer point par point que cela Ă©tait normal, ou de ma faute finalement. PiquĂ© Ă lâĂ©go. quand nous arrivons au restaurant il y a 40 minutes dâattente avant dâavoir une table, alors nous demandons si possible de patienter Ă un mange debout avec du vin et de quoi grignoter. RĂ©ponse positive de la serveuse. Plus de 15 minutes avant de pouvoir passer une commande, avec un menu que nous avons dĂ» demander. Au passage il faut ajouter 3-4e pour avoir du pain avec les fromages. Ătonnant pour une resto français mais bon passons. Le choix du vin a dĂ» se faire en express devant la cave, le serveur Ă©tait manifestement sous pression, dommage pour un lieu spĂ©cialisĂ© oĂč on espĂšre que cela fasse partie de lâexpĂ©rience. nous avons notre table, on y termine notre apĂ©ritif. On change de serveur câest maintenant un garçon. Le temps passe (plus de 15 minutes) mais toujours pas de menu ou commande pour y complĂ©ter notre installation. Nous finissons par demander et passons commande. Le plat arrive, nous nâavons ni couteau, ni lâeau gazeuse commandĂ©e, ni serviettes ou verres. Nous ne pouvons donc pas manger. aprĂšs une longue attente supplĂ©mentaire nous rĂ©ussissons Ă obtenir les oublis, et pouvons enfin dĂ©guster. Le guanciale a refroidi, et surtout, lâeau est plate et non gazeuse. Nous demandons le changement dâeau. Lorsque nous arrivons en fin de repas nous avons lâeau gazeuse. Le serveur est sympathique et prĂ©sente ses excuses, mais cela fait dĂ©jĂ beaucoup, et peu de temps de repas restant pour une grande bouteille, que nous devrons donc bien sĂ»r payer. au moment du paiement, câest de nouveau la serveuse aux cheveux courts. Je ne peux masquer mon agacement, elle souhaite connaĂźtre les raisons. Je lui explique, et point par point elle essaye de justifier ou rejeter la faute sur nous. FlorilĂšge de citations : « oh, so you didnât ask for the menu » , « you know, it is a place like this, the customers come inside to pass the orders when they donât have the table yet » pourquoi pas, sauf que jâai commencĂ© par demander Ă grignoter pendant lâattente, donc une prise de commande ou un menu Ă©tait juste logique. Et sinon ne pas hĂ©siter Ă expliquer comment ça fonctionne. Bonus pour mâexpliquer ce que jâaurais fait de mal. TrĂšs pro. « oh so after when you were at the table, you didnât ask for the menu ? » = non, lorsque je mâassois au restaurant je mâattends Ă ce quâon me le propose. Bonus encore pour mâexpliquer que câest de ma faute. « you had food to wait » = oui une fin dâapĂ©ritif pour attendre le repas, qui lui ne venait pas. Si on avait pas fini par demander un menu on aurait sĂ»rement jamais dĂźnĂ©. « this dish (aspargus and guanciale) is supposed to be cold we take it from the fridge » = pas sĂ»r mais ce nâest pas le sujet, on avait pas de couteau. Maybe itâs supposed to be eaten with the hands? « itâs maybe a place that you will not like, itâs like this here we cannot have full attention on the clients » abasourdi. 1 - je me fais donc expliquer que je ne corresponds pas au lieu. La flemme de lui expliquer que jâai lâhabitude de ce genre de concept en France oĂč câest lĂ©gion, elle est dans sa bulle et croit faire partie dâun monde dont je nâai pas idĂ©e. 2 - dans quel restaurant au monde on peut sâentendre dire quâon a pas lâattention sur les clients ? Saupoudrez ça dâune serveuse qui vous regarde Ă peine ou pas lorsquâelle vous dĂ©pose quelque chose, et vous avez tout ce quâon espĂšre Ă©viter dans le service. Le serveur lui Ă©tait trĂšs distrait mais sympathique au moins. Pour ce type de lieu, de prix, on...