2 /5
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Despite being part of a totally featureless hotel, this restaurant should have everything going for it: overlooking a large lake; no local competition of any note; easy to find. And good - if expensive - food. But the staff! Oh dear! Clearly attendance at a charm school isn't a pre-requisite for working here!We had our suspicions when the hotel receptionist managed to check us in for the night whilst barely removing her gaze from her book, and that level of customer service was maintained a couple of hours later in the restaurant. We were led to a table near the back. No thanks" we said, "we'd like to sit by the window with a view of the lake". "They're all reserved" we were told. "We've also reserved" I said. "Then they must have reserved earlier than you" was the response. "I doubt it - I reserved in April" (it was now July). Impasse, finally resolved by sitting us in the middle of the place, from where we could see the lake perfectly well beyond two window tables that resolutely remained empty the whole evening!This exchange took place in English (because that was the language the restaurant receptionist used at the start). Once we had settled ourselves down at the table and proceeded to vent our true feelings to the Maitre d' in French we were treated with a little less disdain, but by then the damage had been done.We spend a lot of time in France, and despite hearing frequent stories of local hostility towards the British, we have never ever experienced it. Until now.I doubt very much that I shall ever feel the urge to return to this place.