Les Filles Cafè — Restaurant in Barcelona

The space is lovely with its beautiful garden and big glass window to the interior and open kitchen. Still, what is inaceptable is the service. When you make the reservation it is clear you have the table for 2 hs. They are eager for you to order, to bring you the food. They came to pick up the dishes when we were done rushing us to order dessert. I felt like I was in a race, "go, go, go". We did not want dessert, but after that I decided to order more wine because it was still early, 8:15 and we had the table until 9. I had to ask three times for someone to come so I could order. But then the worst. At 8:40 they brought the check. Soon I had someone with the card reader to charge me. And worst, at 8:50 I had a lady by my side saying I needed to leave because the 9 pm reservation had arrived. When they infom you you have the table for 2 hs it not true. You have it for 1:40 minutes. Then they will rush you to leave... I could not finish the conversation with my friend because we were interrupted every 5 minutes and told to leave before time. 2 hours for me means 2 hours. I was ready to pay my bill near 9 pm and leave. But I do not wish to do so 20 minutes before 9 pm. This constant feeling of being rushed (almost like if you were bothering them) makes you feel uncomfortable and does not go with the relaxed and natural atmosphere the place had. The gastronomy is fine but I have to agree with other reviews when they mention it is a little overpriced. Specially if I consider the overall experience in which I paid a little bit more than I would pay at similar places and had people rushing...

10 minutes away from my place, there's a cute restaurant with a nice terrasse that has a French name... or not... It opened about 3 or 4 years ago and since then I walk by it maybe once a week and I always wonder if the name of the venue is in French or in Catalan... It's called Les Filles. Well, believe it or not, I went there for lunch with a group of friends a few weeks ago and I forgot to ask... 🤷 Even though it was winter, we wanted to enjoy the cute terrace so we stayed outside... and we froze, despite the heaters. But the staff told us we would be cold so it's our fault. The staff was very nice actually, always trying to help... but they were so slow! It took us about 2 hours to have lunch.. and we didn't have desserts! 🥶😓 We could feel that, in everything we had, the products were good quality. But I had a quinoa bowl and the ingredients in the bowl didn't match at all... so the result was quite uniform and not very tasty. With that bowl, there was a pita bread that was kind of dry. Overall, it's not something I look forward to eating again. On top of that, the prices were excessive.We shared 3 starters between 7 guests, had 1 main course each, no dessert, almost no drinks and ended up paying about €25. I'm disappointed.

Quality & taste: 5/10 Quantities: 8/10 Atmosphere: 8/10 Originality: 8/10 Ratio price / quality: 4/10 Service: 5/10 How I felt afterwards: 5/10

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Slow & bad service, wrong food and missing items. First of all the restaurant is much understaffed, they also do not have a manager on hand (at least not when we were there) to deal with issues. They didn't have any juices (which is a main reason to visit) and they served a dish with fruits which was supposed to have granola as they were out. HOWEVER, the worst of all is that this place is where you can go to cater for intolerances. We specifically asked for dairy free options (and you pay more for these) and we reconfirmed again when ordering that all was dairy free and said we both were dairy free. However it turned out they had served us greek yogurt and not coconut yoghurt as requested even after we confirmed twice - this is simply unacceptable as we will have stomach problems the next 2 days. Lucky for us we do not have a servere allergy. Besides serving the wrong food, they also forgot to serve us one of our main dishes which we never got. They have no system to ensure food safety and if you have a strong intolerance&allergy you may end up in hospital as there us no system to secure what food your recieve. Until they get this under control the restaurant should be closed to ensure the health and safety of people visiting to...