Hippopotamus — Restaurant in Montpellier

I miss French brasseries. I remember eating at brasseries a lot with my father when I was a kid. It was simple: a 🥩 and some 🥬 and / or 🍟, all the time, for a cheap price. Even in France, there are less brasseries every day, and the concept hasn't travelled outside of France, or at least, I can't find it like I expect it. What you can find nowadays are chains of brasseries. That's not the same, cause they have wider menus, and they're more like steak houses, but it's the closest you can find if you don't have a brasserie around the corner. I've been a customer of one of them, Hippopotamus, for many years. And I've seen the prices rise and the quality getting lower over the years. Still, it's a good option, depending on what you wanna eat or if you're with a kid (they have cheap options for kids). I hadn't tried the one at Odysseum, which is a quite convenient option on my way back to Barcelona, so the other day I met there with a friend. I ordered a steak à cheval, which is a burger (just the 🥩), with a 🍳 on top of it + some 🍟. I ordered the 🥩 bleu, which is as close as possible to raw, but still hot. Not only did the 🥩 come overcooked compared to what I ordered and in general, but the 🥚 too was overcooked: the white part was crunchy and the yolk was dry. This kind of dish requires a perfectly cooked 🥚, cause the idea is to mix the yolk with the 🥩. Otherwise it makes no sense. The waiter offered to change it but I said no, cause I didn't want my friend to eat alone nor myself to eat alone afterwards. This dish should have never left the kitchen 😡 That's a pity cause I could feel the quality of the products was ok. The price was fair for France, €14 for a main course + a mini dessert and coffee. The dessert was a 🍓 soup that was very good, by the way 👍 Overall, that was not a great experience and I hope it was just a hiccup cause, as I said, Hippopotamus is a pretty convenient pitstop.

Quality & taste: 3/10 Quantities: 7/10 Atmosphere: 7/10 Originality: 6/10 Ratio price / quality: 7/10 Service: 7/10 How I felt afterwards: 4/10

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Venu ce midi, habitué à venir dans les hippo' de montpellier, le service était très décevant ce midi, arrivé quelques minutes avant le rush, le serveur arrive et nous lui précisons que nous n'avons pas choisis les boissons il repart mais revient que 15/20 minutes plus tard, nos boissons nous ont regardez sur le bar pendant plus de 10 minutes encore, une fois reçu as table les cocktails étaient tout de même bon, bravo. nous avons du réclamez les petite chips d'accueil malgré le faite qu'elles soit gratuites tout le monde autours de nous en avait mais pas nous (alors qu'ils étaient en train de choisir leurs plats), pendant l'entrée nous avions reçu nos wings de poulet mangé assez rapidement mais qui sont quand même resté plus de 30 minutes sur la tables alors que nous avions finit... le serveur est passez pas mal de fois à côté de nous sans ce souciés de nous... quel dommage... nous avons du réclamez la suite sinon je pense que nous serions encore là bas à cet heure ci... bref nous nous étions fixé 1h30 pour mangez tranquillement pour aller au cinéma après mais nous avons du nous dépêché et mangez nos plats en 15 minute, pas le temps d'appréciez nos plats... nous aurions bien laissez le reste de la monnaie mais je ne voulait pas que cela arrive à d'autre personnes. Je précise que nous étions installés a la table 205 arrivé vers 12h, c'est n'est pas pour autant que le restaurent est mauvais, juste un mauvais accueil... nous reviendrons...