Bistro Le Gaulois
August 6, 2008
It’s a shame that good food can be tainted by bad service, but that was the experience had at Le Gaulois.
The server, a woman in her 50s, maybe spoke deficient German, or perhaps she didn’t have experience waitressing.
My friend ordered two flambees, one for me, one for her, while our other companion ordered just a glass of water. I joined in while my friend was ordering, I stopped her, thinking that I wanted something else, but I settled for what my friend ordered for me. The waitress didn’t even bother to confirm the orders. She brought in three flambees instead of two, and raised a stink when we protested. The owner, a lovely man from French Guyana, apologized for the mix-up and engaged us in conversation.
As we were eating our flambees, we found a hair in my meal, an otherwise lovely mozarella, mushroom and spinach concoction with a flaky, crunchy crust. Then she charged us for the third flambee by not giving us change, even though the owner wrote on the receipt that the 5.50 charged for the flambee was to be stricken from the bill. We told the owner, who then gave us our money back.
Lovely location near the Gera river, delicious food, friendly owner. But he should really fire that waitress.
Bistro Le Gaulois
Kreuzgasse 5 99084 Erfurt.
