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Cafe De La Paix
2 reviews for Cafe De La Paix
2 reviews in English
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Review from Farheen K.
Toronto, ON
9/16/2009 1 photo
Ok so the goal here is to write as many Quebec City reviews as I can since there just isnt enough yelping going on for this particular region.
After a quick menu scan of the restaurants on Rue St. Louis, we ended up at Cafe De La Paix for the rabbit and snails. Cafe De La Paix is a small-mismatching plates-seemingly family run-friendly-cozy-charming restaurant in Old Quebec serving semi-french cuisine.
Our appetizers were french onion soup & snails in cream sauce. The French soup was pretty good but the snails were small and chewy overpowered by the heavy cream sauce. For the mains we had rabbit (served with a side of scalloped potatoes & gravy) & Raspberry Vinagerette Salmon (also served with the same sides) - both were pretty good.
The coffee afterwards was cold and weak but the desserts were moist and fresh.
For the money spent (approx $160 incl. a half bottle of wine), you could probably find a much better alternative in gastronomous Quebec and in a Toronto setting, I would give this restaurant a 2 star but since I was a generous traveller in Quebec City, it gets 3 :)
PS: We dined on the lower level but there seemed to be alot of hustle bustle happening around the stairs which we didnt check out. A better restaurant upstairs maybe? -
Review from Alice Y.
10/22/2011
Their posted menu says daily lunch specials served from 11:30am to 3pm. We arrived at 11:35am on a Sunday. No one was there to greet us. Finally, a guy in a red T-shirt came in and said they won't seat us until noon. We left. Being patient people, we walked around some more, and then we came back at noon. Honestly, I wish we went somewhere else to eat.
The food at this restaurant is a solid 3.5 stars for the lunch specials, which were a great value. My brother ordered the linguine ($12 CAD). My mom and I ordered the trout ($16 CAD each). My husband ordered the chicken with mushroom sauce ($14 CAD). Each of these came with a soup of the day (broccoli), the main course, dessert (fruit or flan) and coffee/tea. My dad ordered a yellow pickering fish ($26 CAD) which did not include anything else, but the portion of the fish was larger than those of the daily special trout. We also had two orders of escargots in garlic butter sauce as appetizers ($10 each). Everything was quite tasty, although we found the escargots on our cruise ship (the Crown Princess) to be smaller but better tasting.
The main complaint that I have, and which ruined the meal for all five of us, was that the waiter tried to cheat us on the bill. Hence my rating of 2 stars only.
The meal, before tax and tip, came to CAD $102. The waiter added himself a $23 service charge, hand written on the bill (22.5% tip!!), which plus tax brought to total to just over $139. My father handed him two $100 bills. The expected change should have been $60 and change. The waiter came back with 3 $10 bills and a $5 bill, plus a few coins, All 5 of us saw the bills exchange hands, and was surprised that the waiter shorted us of $25 or so. When we called him to our table, he was surly and said "the rest was for service" but did hand us a $20, a $5 and some loose change back.
My father, being a very nice, forgiving man, still left the young waiter additional several $1 and $2 coins as change, ON TOP Of the $23 tip he added himself. Now, if we had let things go and didn't count our change, the waiter would have received the $23 tip he so generously awarded himself PLUS another $25 = $48 total (a 47% tip!!) on a $102 meal.
The nastiest thing about the whole exchange was the self-righteous attitude of the waiter, as if he was entitled in treating paying customers this way. We received no apology. Staff like this puts a decent restaurant to shame.
