3 /5
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On several occasions, I have savoured dishes at Les Brasseurs on Bank street in Ottawa and have done one or reviews of their food and service. Their pulled pork and lamb shank are musts should one dine there. So when we visited the...Odysseum, at Place de France in Montpellier for lunch and I found the restaurant there, I bragged to my dear wife that we were in for a nice lunch. Our kids settled for Burger King (with hindsight, they made a better choice) and we peeled off to Les Brasseurs. My wife ordered Le supréme de poulet sauce normand and I asked for Le ribs de porc with a mix of fries and salad. Meantime, the waiter brought us some slices of bread but without any butter or accompanying balsamic vinegar/olive oil. We had to call him back for these. The meals were served in good time. The chicken was ok. My meal was, let's be politically correct and say, below average. The ribs were not bad at all; it was the fries. They looked like they'd been cooked in used engine oil (see pictures). We called the waiter and complained. He went to see the chef about it and later brought a small bowl of replacement fries. The ones at the top looked a hint better but as I got halfway towards the bottom, the same darkish oily standard of fries were there smiling at me. We were almost calling for the manager but decided to let it lie. The salad was also not that inviting. It was a monotonous single leaf type. At the end of the day, my wife and I were of course very disappointed. The experience was, unfortunately, way below Les Brasseurs of Ottawa. Definitely some improvements needed at this restaurant. Otherwise the physical infrastructure is very well curated with plenty of beer making paraphernalia in the right places for an authentic ambience of being in a brewery. A section even has baby/child friendly seating. I would venture to eat here again but would go for rice or another starch.