Via Mela sur Paris

10/05/2024: For guests like us of the Hotel Saint-Séverin, this is the de facto dining room. During breakfast, the area adjacent to the hotel’s reception desk is closed off from the rest of the restaurant and the offerings are quite good. The waitress changed from day to day but they were all good and happy to make you any kind of specialty coffee you wanted. They open up the restaurant side for lunch and we did that once. The fare is fairly good for a limited menu. Pretty much what you’d expect in an Italian place. On our first night, we had dinner there after a fairly long day of travelling from Bordeaux. The Burrata pizza was absolutely enormous. Good, though. I watched a family of three near us share one: I could barely eat half of mine. My wife ordered a chicken escalope with mushrooms and pasta in a cream sauce. That selection was also huge. However, when she got her plate, it was obvious that her meal had been sitting in the kitchen waiting to be delivered for quite some time. Consequently, it was tepid and therefore, somewhat unappetizing. Service was haphazard at best. The head waitress clearly seemed to be training a new one and both were being run off their feet by the number of clients. It was a Monday night but the weather had been exceptional for the time of year. There was a waiter as well but he seemed focused on the clients inside.. .

10/05/2024: Accueil chaleureux et personnalisé malgré un important afflux de touristes comme nous. Des plats bien préparés et bons...