AVOID buddha bar in paris!
Date 29 december
Peter &Silvio from Australia
When in Paris AVOID Buddha Bar!
Paris is a unique experience , full of nice places why spoil your evening is "that" place?
We are from Australia , spending xmas holidays in Europe , been to Holland , Wien and Paris.
In Paris we stayed at our friends' place.They are from Paris but never been to Buddha Bar so we decided to have a drink there(not a dinner knowing the impossible prices and the poor quality of the food from this website).It was December 29 .
The group was composed of 8 adults (4 French, 2 Italian and us) we stepped into the bar at 6.30pm the right time for a drink, the bar upstairs had a lot of available tables but all of them with the sign "reserved". Our French hosts asked permission to take a place , a girl from the staff replied "oui" without paying much attention to us and not welcoming at all.
We sat down: we were practically in the DARK , the drinks and cocktails in the menu were impossible to read and we had to use the lights from our mobile phones, no comment about the prices : we already knew they would have been scandalous but we were willing to try the experience.
To cut a long story short : after 10 minutes an arrogant girl (interested only in how she looked in her miniskirt) TOOK OUR ORDERS,that means in my judgement that everything is fine ?or not? (for a total of about 135 euros) not everybody could order their favourite cocktail as some drinks were to long to prepare and the barman had a lot of work (!!!???) anyway we ORDERED.
After other 10 minutes a woman from the staff came and INVITED US TO LEAVE THE BAR BECAUSE THE TABLE WAS RESERVED FOR THE CUSTOMER WAITING TO HAVE DINNER (!!!) we made her notice that other tables were free and that WE HAD ALREADY ORDERED ,and that we were allowed to take aplace in the first time, she did not even take the time to reply. We left , happy to have saved the money , but not before complaining to the reception desk at the entrance of course without any results.
And by the way : do not expect to see any celebrities over there : they do not go there : it's just a place for naive people like us who like to be humiliated and robbed...the second aim not successfult his time for them ...