Dear Monsieur / Madam You have a great location, right on the Quay side, in a lovely French fishing village. You advertise 12 (local) oysters for 19 euros. We come to your restaurant: (1) we are kept standing by the entrance, waiting to be seated. (2) After 3 minutes, we choose a table ourselves and sit down. (3) Then we wait for 10 minutes until we get the attention of the waiter. (4) We ask for 12 oysters and a bottle of white wine (40 euros) but are told we have to also order dessert. (5) I say actually we only want the oysters and wine. She makes a face but eventually the oysters arrive. What have we leant from this experience? The oysters were fabulous, fresh and zingy. As good as any oyster I've ever tasted. But why was the service so, well, un-French? At the end, ms perhapsthistime had to be very assertive to get l'addition. The oysters were amazing, the service was very average.
