We arrived for dinner at Melisse after hearing about the 2 star michelin rating. We had the Maine Lobster Thermidor, rib eye, duck breast, wild mushroom ravioli, duo of foie grais and Jamon Iberico Pata Negra. That's 2 appetizers, 2 first courses and 2 entrees. It took them 30 minutes to plate the next course. I work in the restaurant industry, and my god, if it took more then 10 minutes, 15 top for one course to the next, it'd be catching hell. If it had been 1 course late, i'd have been fine, 2 maybe but all 3 were late. \r
My date's water glass went empty 3 times during the meal, i had to grab a bottle myself to prevent her from dying of thirst.\r
The staff is slow, unattentive and complacent, downright lazy. They rather talk amongst themselves about their weekends then play attention to the costumers. These are bad economical times, restaurants are slow and competing for your business. Go to Jiraffe instead, it's in the same area.
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