Domaine Gaou Benat

Having eaten at this restaurant a handful of times over the years, I can firmly say that we won’t ever be returning. While the food was delightful and the setting near perfect, the absolutely horrible service ruined what could have been a lovely evening. Upon arrival, we were not offered the specific table we had booked and instead were offered arguably the worst table in the restaurant and were given glares and angry comments when we asked to move to a better situation. After being moved we were then given a surly waitress who seemed to either hate her job, or us (or both!) We had to remind the waitress of drinks that had been ordered and never delivered and waited for delayed delivery of bread and side dishes throughout. Through out our meal the space we were originally offered remained vacant and arguably the restaurant was not full. After arrival at 7:30, by the time we left at 9:30 no one had sat in the space. When we queried this with the maitre d’ we were told the reason for our bad service was because we had arrived not smiling, which is difficult when we arrived in masks! To top this all off, the group who managed to secure our original table seemed to have near perfect service and were eating food (lobster) that wasn’t even on the menu…