Macarons Macarons

Delicate French pastries with a crisp shell and soft center, filled with creamy ganache or fruity fillings in assorted flavors.

Champagne Fromage Covent Garden

Champagne Fromage Covent Garden

22 Wellington Street, WC2E 7DD, London, United Kingdom

Wine • Meat • Steak • French


"We were given a £60 voucher as a couple's Christmas gift so travelled from Reading to Covent Garden especially. The voucher didn't work at the online shop (no one got back to me about that unfortunately when I enquired . We were not seated to a table and sat at the counter beside the staff prep area. We knew in advance that the voucher wouldn't go far, the average table was spending £120 for some cheese and a 110ml glass of fizz (125ml is the standard . We didn't want to exceed the voucher as had the expense of travel etc. We spent £63 on one raclette and three baked camembert (no drinks! and we weren't blown away nor did we think it was anything exceptional. The staff seemed incompetent, there were only 9-10 tables of 2 people (sometimes 4 and they had 4 staff. Bare in mind there's not much to prepare as most are charcuterie boards, I didn't understand their state of panic other than that the staff were inexperienced. When we came to pay we were kind of accused of having used the voucher (he mixed ours up with someone else's , my husband looked at the printout and said his name wasn't Alex as shown under recipient name. No apology came and customer service is not this guy's forte (he appeared to be the restaurant manager . Shame about this experience, as I wanted to enjoy it and it wasn't nice to the family member who gifted it to us! I won't be returning especially as the menu didn't have the choice I expected and the service was bad at best! They couldn't cut bread either and they couldn't serve people coming into buy bread (one person only bought bread and another champagne! . It astonishing when the place is small and it's not like they're serving complex dishes! The rest of my time in London was fab, so not all was lost!"

Cafe Marseille

Cafe Marseille

83 Sheep Street, Northampton I-NN1 2NE, United Kingdom

Vegan • French • Coffee • European


"a table for a rare night as a group of four. another group of four were the only other customers. wein order right immediately followed by our food order. 40 minutes later, it was necessary to ask for something more wein, as has not been checked since. after another 25 minutes some of our food arrived, but not all. the salads arrived without dressing so we asked for some. I was offered mayo or pesto dressing for a nikoise, but especially for a French dressing. some more food came followed by some pesto dressing when I was reused for a French dressing was asked what that was?! I excavated some oil balm. a diver escape was served hard with cold kartoffels, so that was sent back and a suppe reordered in the hope, it would be fast, it wasn't. the other table of the customers also had problems, especially the order of sea bass fillets from a whole fish. instead of the cook that took it out of the bone for her, they made her order something else crazy eating waste. the waitress seemed to have only a limited autority when we asked to talk to someone else, said the cook couldn't speak English. she was understandably annoyed that both customers were happy while she was not the most attentive waitress I felt for her that she was left with the training or skills to deal with things. how can a restaurant with the ability to sit about 30, not cope with 8 diners? they annoyed the owners who wanted to come, but a little later we said they couldn't make it. we paid for the two bottles wein left disappointed not back."