It is rare to find a restaurant so badly managed with a staff overly arrogant and rude.

I went there with my dad for lunch.

The whole experience started with the restaurant half full with most table showing as reserved which on would think is a good sign that it must be popular.

So we got offered to share a table with other people as everything was reserved and there was no table for 2 available. The gentleman sitting next to us was waiting for his guest to arrive.

From that point onward it went down hill.

It tooked about quite a while for the waitress looking after 4 tables to finally take our drink order.

At that point the man next to us reminded the waitress that he was still waiting for his drink he ordered 15 min ago.

This was really the sign of things to come.

The guest of our table neighbour finally arrived about 5 min after we have ordered our food.

All our order were cold dishes. I ordered a melon and melon and ham salad for starter and a steak tartar for main while my dad was having only the same salad as me but as a main.

By miracle our neighbours hot food ordered after us managed to appear 10min before my salad starter.

Usually you will have some sort of apologies for the waiting but nothing of the sort here.

Let's talk about the food. The melon and ham salad was good as the chef as nothing really to do here. But be aware simply order it a starter as if you order it as a main you will just have two leaf of salad more but no more melon or ham.

Call me old fashioned but when you order a steak tartar I like to be asked how I like it. Here you get thrown what ever the chef decided. With the only offer to bring tabasco to make it hotter.

The meat was not the nicest not very lean as it's clear they do not invest in high quality ingredients.

We decided that we would still have a dessert. So after requesting the dessert menu that we received immediately. We waited 10min to order after that point we decided we had enough and we were in the end have dessert somewhere else.

When leaving we noticed that from all the tables reserved still 6 or 7 tables were still showing as reserved despite clearly no one was coming given it was past 1.30pm.

When leaving another waiter asked how it went so my dad told him he was not impressed to have been lied to about the tables. He came up with an excuse that all of a sudden he had to keep all the tables indoor free if he had to bring people in case of rain.

Seems reasonable but so if we had accepted one of the two table free outside we would have had a table indoor? They never mentioned it when we came in. When my dad try to explain the issue with his reasoning and the fact he was not upfront with us when we came in.

At that point the waiter started shouting at my dad that he was not able to understand properly. And I am being polite in the way I'm depicting the scene.

But the truth is that they are trying to create their own hype by trying to appear busier and more popular than they are. With so many options in Lausanne you will have no issues to find better food and service near by.