Frontière Française — Restaurant in Hualien City

Food is ok (not brillant) and personal is far from ok. We got in one hour before closing time according to google. They told us we only had 30’ and that we had to order one drink each to stay. I mean… I came to try your pastries, not your coffee. I could understand one product per person (be it drink or food) or one pastry per person, but drinks… taht doesn’t make any sense! Also while we were translating the pastries description and deciding what to eat the girl started attending the person behind us who picked one pastry which was the last of its type and was the one we were clearly into as we were translating it… this is so rude, we were firsts and she was supposed to attend us first. I still can believe it. Overall the pastries we ended up picking where ok but overpromising (looked better than tasted) and not well balanced. Far from french. And of course, we ended up ordering to take away.

When we got in, a rude girl at the counter immediately told us that the dine-in hours end at 7:30 p.m.(it was 6:57 p.m when we got in and the shop closes at 8 p.m.), gave us the menu and started chatting loudly with the other girl working there without even bothering to introduce us to their selections. The place is extremely hot and stuffy and the air circulation is terrible. A lady came after us, tried to order coffee and was rudely told they no longer serve coffee after 7 and she left in disbelief. The extremely bad service and poor environment is definitely not worth the price we paid.

A famous coffee shop with an unique name, Frontiere francaise which means French border, is just in front of an abandoned prison. Why the owner use this unique name which has nothing to do with coffee shop. It seems the high wall of the prison is a border of free world and imprison on the heart of prisoner. The coffee shop is a border of enrichment and emptiness of people as well. Any way coffee and desserts are excellent. The staffs are kind and polite.

Haven't been here for over three years. It is still a popular coffee shop, but with more commercial atmosphere and less warmth.