Pastor at Pascal — Restaurant in Coral Gables

Me and my husband decided to dine at Pascal’s this evening. Hoping to enjoy dinner at a fine dining, French establishment, we were left disappointed and shocked. The evening started with us deciding on the four course tasting menu, accompanied with the wine pairing. The service started off great, but as the restaurant got busier, it was noticeably getting worse. The wine pairings came out after the entrees were presented, not presenting each dish properly with the accompanying wine. These factors did not bother us at first until the end of our meal. At the beginning of the meal we requested the cheese plate to follow the dessert an additional cost of $10. When we received our soufflé and wine pairing, after waiting over 30 minutes, and it was not worth the wait. The soufflé was drenched with coco powder that was over powering, it was not good. We requested the bill and noticed the cheese plate was added, even though we did not receive it. After the bad experience with the dessert we were no longer hungry and asked for the cheese plate to be removed. Another server returns to our table with the cheese plate we requested to have removed, we told them to bring it back. Our waitress returns and informs us the chef has told her that she has to charge us and we can take it home. Me and my husband were left speechless, excuse me? She then indicated to us it is not her fault she is just doing her job. The audacity of a restaurant owner to charge a $10 plate after their servers never brought it out and we are forced to pay for it? After paying over $300 for the tasting and pairing, to think it is proper service of a fine dining restaurant to charge the customer for a cheese plate ha. What a joke this restaurant is, I will never recommend or speak of this restaurant again. Remember, it is the customer who keeps the restaurant in business. Uphold yourselves to a better standard, so...

I love French food and this came up in my recent search and had a healthy 4.4 rating so I'm of course in.

Everything started well, table was ready when promised inside and with a nice view. The place looked presentable and I proceeded to order a bottle of wine. Tasted fine and started sipping as we looked at the menu. The menu sounds great with fanciful description partly in French.

I should have know by the amuse bouche which was some kind of stale crouton that the food here wasn't going to be great. But I'm hungry and adventurous so lets do this.

Price for a bowl of mushroom soup which was ok was $21.00 so I figured this place is bringing it and so it was ordered with the foie gras as appetizers.

The entrees were just not very good, escargot stuffed filet was overdone. It was also on the dry side too. Presentation was nice but couldn't overcome the lack of flavor other wise. Duck confit was just not good at all, tasted old and also overdone. This is a classic that you just have to get right if you want to call yourself a French restaurant.

Finally we had the Baked Alaska which we were split on, but I thought it was very good, and frankly I don't know any other place in Miami that has it so I would definitely come for desert.

The last negative thing to say here was a there was an uninvited "guest" that I watched crawl up the wall and walk across the ceiling before falling about 6 feet from our table. Maybe it came in from the outside but just based on how the meal went overall I just had to laugh.

It pains me to write all this because the staff seemed very nice and the service was actually very good. But for $300 for two people I wont be back to see if...

For a late lunch, it definitely did not live up to its name. My mom said that they probably sold the place because it's different. The service was uninspired, constantly waiting for things like lemons? and water service... What? They had many people working but no one doing much. I saw nice if the bus boy then anyone. Food took a long time.. which would have been fine if you was not mostly specials. The steaks were less then inspired, like a top sirloin.. Over cooked to order. Medium rare was medium well. No we didn't send it back. After waiting. No way. Soup was bland. One stale dinner roll.. bagget, was dropped in the plate at a time. The butter was excellent and served in a little container. Nice temperature to shave off for use in a roll. But bagget were so hard they needed to be broken with force. Checked picatta was good. Steak not good. And the salad nicoise was very nice. Playing was good and generous greens. The tuna was not ... Delicious. Served seated on the out side and raw inside but not the right color.. at all. Ummmmm Desserts were ok I guess. Included profiterole was ok. The Baked Alaska should be approached with caution. It seems like Frozen ice cream with Carmalised meringue topping. I had heard it used to be served on fire. So much for stories I'd the old days. Nothing at the table was exceptional. Where everything should have been at least excellent. We are all foodies and this was .... a loved restaurant of...