Madame Georgette — Restaurant in Venlo

Two words: disappointing, overpriced. My wife and I had confit de canard and just water. The staff tried to sell all sorts add ons. The “amuse”, are potato chips. Just random, lays chips as appetizer or something. I don’t know any french or Parisian bistros would ever serve potato chips to welcome guest. We couldn’t get a glass of tap water, instead we had to order water at €7 per bottle, pretty steep price for a fountaine 0.75L water. The confit was good but the sauce with under cooked paprikas and red wine missed the point. French bistros are splendid at serving good no nonsense food that’s well priced and a delight. None of this were true at Madame Georgette. The Dutch staff trying to speak a few words of French didn’t make up for...

The food was very good but the service the worst I had in my life. We all travelled that same day from the US and Spain for a business trip. We were supposed to be 6 and instead not even 1 hours before we got 2 cancellations and had no time to inform the restaurant. A first person told us to inform next time, we apologized! Then a man came not even 2 min after and started talking to me very bad in front of my suppliers. Telling me again was the lady said. Again I apologized but he was very rude and left me in a very uncomfortable situation. They should not forget that things like that can happen. Not...

It was the first day after the restaurants holiday, so that might be the reason that we did ot experience the fame Madame Georgette collected so far. We had the 3-course menu of the day, of which only the starter (mussels & clamps) was excellent of taste. The main course was modest, but for the filet mignon itself, that was excellent. The dessert was disappointing: a parfait with taste missing. The atmosphere was french as I remembered from my past: lovely!

Alltogether we had much better food in four nearby restaurants. Maybe we should have dined à-la-carte. Am convinced they...