à table! — Restaurant in Budapest

Very bad place. Do you know the croque-madame? That creamy and crunchy toast served covered in bechamel and cheese, filled with good quality roasted ham? OK if now you have it in your mind, run away from this place and never look back. Especially if you're French, or you will feel like declaring war to Hungary due to this place. I've ordered that well known dish, very good and easy to prepare but, it seems that not everyone find it so easy to cook. The bechamel was spread in the dismounted toast like you'd spread Philadelphia in your morning toast. It was cold from the fridge and dense as as asphalt. The ham was basic ham probably from Spar, extremely average. Bread was toasted but very soft, in some corners even burnt. Tasteless, bland, hideous. Cheese on top was also very anonymous, I can't really recognize what it was, probably the cheapest edamer from the same Spar of the ham. Egg on top was the only thing done more or less OK, but really they can't even cook a toast. Everything was without seasoning, not even a bit of black pepper. This is not French cuisine at all, this not cooking at all. It was not disappointing, it's been worse. It costed 2200 HUF, and consider that the night before for the same price I've had a three courses meal 5 minutes walking from this place. Service was not good either. During a meal we've been served by 4 different waitresses; impossible to make a contact with anyone of them. In fact, none of them even cared to ask how the meal was, none of them showed interest about the customers and when we were served nobody said something like "have a good meal". Like, I don't want them to lick my boots at all, this is just basic education and I've worked myself as a waiter in the past so I know what I'm talking bout. They just passed the time on the phone or speaking to each other or looking at customers in a non pleasant way. They weren't busy at all: 4 waitresses for a half empty place, there were more employees than customers. Yet, service was inefficient. I will be surprised if this place lasts more than 6 months. Oh I forgot that in the end they begged for tips. En plein. Salut and...

First, I have left 500 reviews for Google and I think I've left less than 10 reviews that were under 3 stars and maybe 3 that were under 2 stars. I know it's just a Google review but I take my word seriously. The restaurant is clearly French themed, they even have a French name. Problem #1: the menu said the eggs benedict would be served on brioche. It was served on plain sandwich bread. This is a Marie Antoinette joke just waiting to happen. Don't serve me plain bread and call it brioche. Next, my eggs. Oh. My eggs. They were not poached. They were soft boiled. There's little more disappointing than when I cut into what's supposed to be a poached egg expecting the yolk to pour out onto my plate and then nothing happens because the egg is not poached. Next, number three: the avocado was frozen. Frozen avocado? I understand. You're running a restaurant and it's March. But, um, take it out earlier. Thaw it BEFORE serving it to the customer. I wasn't looking for green flavored ice with my breakfast. Oh yes, there's more, the hollandaise sauce, how old is the cook? Five? It was as if a small child made my breakfast and eagerly poured sauce all over it. You know how little kids get really excited and pour way too much of everything all over the plate? I'm not a small child eating pancakes with syrup. I'm a grown adult eating overpriced eggs benedict. Overall it was a terribly disappointing experience and I'm sorry to say it was my first meal in Hungary. It's okay though. I've done enough traveling to know you win some and you lose some.

The service was okay and the interior...

I'm a huge foie gras and croissant sandwich fan, so when I saw that there's foie gras croissant and the last piece can be mine, my day brightened up immediately. However. My sum was 5120 which I mistakenly saw as 5110, so I gave the girl 10210 so that she can give me 5100 back for the sake of simplicity. She gave me less than 5000, so I let her know. She asked me to count with her. I just showed her on a calculator that she needs to give me 5090. She raised her voice and repeated that I gotta count with her. I said nobody's gotta count, in fact if she had tapped it into the register how much I gave her, my change would be visible on the receipt, the machine would count for us like the calculator in my hand. She started yelling (probably cursing) and simply left the counter. Her male colleague replaced her, which he should've done the moment she raised her voice to deescalate the situation. He gave me the correct change. Imagine if she was alone... Anyway! He said the croissant wouldn't be good heated up, but I think it was amazing, along with the lemon tart. I hope nobody else will give the girl any other confusing coins that would cause her yet another mental breakdown. Remember that Hungarians take pride in their hospitality, lol....