14/12/2024: We had afternoon tea with a friend,was simply stunning !!!!!! Flavours,textures were there for all the food and the pastries.Amazing experience we definitely are coming back.
13/12/2024: So I have very mixed feelings about the breakfast at le meurice.
People at the reception were exceptional, very friendly, polite and professional.
But our waiter was not professional at all, literally like he was just a random person passing by and couldn’t understand what exactly is his job.
We were 5 and all ordered a different type of breakfast.
Mine was - Continental breakfast, which basically consist of only pastries and a fruit salad (the tiniest)
Yes, extremely overpriced for this, but it’s ok, as you are having a breakfast at such a beautiful and special location.
The waiter approached us with a tray of different pastries. I took 2 croissants.
Other girls took each 2 croissants and pain au chocolat.
When we received the bill they charged us double.
We called our waiter and he said that we took too many croissants, so he decided to add it as a double breakfast. 😂
I said, I’m sorry how many croissants was I allowed to take when my breakfast is basically only pastries? He said - I don’t know one or two.
I said, so I had 2!
He said, I don’t even remember how many you took, but ok I’ll remove it from the bill.
But the point that he didn’t even know how many croissants are included in a breakfast was so funny.
Also, knowing this kind of concept - when they approach you with a tray - you can take as many as you need. Which we didn’t.
But I hardly believe that it supposed to be only one croissant for the breakfast of this price.
My issue is not the money we had to pay, we knew that we are going to expensive place and expected to have a great food and great service. Received neither of them (also the croissants were quite dry and fruit salad was just a joke)
Is this a fine dining? I would understand if he just said it was a mistake and apologized, but he tried to convince us that we don’t remember what we ordered.
I’m not giving it 1 star, because I noticed how other waiters were nice, as well as people at the reception, so I guess we were just unlucky and I’m sure on the other day we could have a better experience.
I hope you can train your team and next time I can recommend this place to my friends and clients.
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