A restaurant that loves itself. And loves fleecing customers.
This determinedly old-style French bistro believes it is far better than it is. Its attitude to customers seem to be that they should be grateful for being allowed to step through its doors to be treated like merde by the arrogant staff.
The food is pretty run-of-the mill fare, pushed out at high prices. Plus, you should be prepared for a long wait to get it, particularly on busy nights, when the kitchen seems unable to cope. On our last visit (on a Saturday night with a group of six), we had wrong dishes, forgotten side orders, main courses arriving at wildly different times and under-cooked (to the point of being almost raw and hard) vegetables. And not a single apology.
On a previous visit we ordered a bottle of £20 white wine. The waiter told us they had run out and recommended a replacement. We accepted his advice, enjoyed the wine and polished off a second bottle. Imagine our surprise (and anger) when the bill arrived, to discover the wine was £45 a bottle. The waiter's recommendation was more than twice what we expected to pay. No mention had been made of that at the time, so we had assumed his suggested alternative was the same price as our first choice. We felt we had been seriously cheated.
If the food were better, and the prices more reasonable, this place might be worth putting up with. As it is, you can be sneered at, ignored and patronised far more cheaply in other establishments.