Paris restaurant warning - Brasserie Lipp

Jul 28th, 2007, 06:13 PM

#21

fishskis

Join Date: Dec 2004

Posts: 267

Lipp has always had a reputation of having mediocre food served with attitude. Stories and reviews sometimes speak of dismissive treatment of tourists, particularly Americans.

I have never been subjected to any bad treatment at Lipp. In fact, I find it quintessentially Parisian (by way of Alsace). The staff can be brusque (not rude), but this is part of the atmosphere. I find the food to be pretty good, not great (their steak tartare is very good), though I don't really go for the food. Oddly enough, I had one of the best steaks of my life there. Maybe I like it because it reminds me a little of my former home, New York City; it is crowded, loud, and authentic.

Jul 28th, 2007, 06:32 PM

#22

jody

Join Date: Jan 2003

Posts: 4,247

You were lucky with your steak tartare..this past summer both my friend and her daughter had food poisoning from tartare at lipp at lunch. They were the only 2 of their group who had it and the only 2 who were sick. Everything else the 5 of them ate was the same.

Jul 28th, 2007, 08:29 PM

#23

marginal_margiela

Join Date: Sep 2006

Posts: 1,569

I love when the horrid, obnoxious posters crawl out from under their rocks to tell another poster that they MUST HAVE DONE SOMETHING WRONG to get poor service in a hotel or restaurant. GSteed and DJbooks were you with Joe at Brasserie Lipp? No? Then shut your stinking pie holes.

I am so sick of some of you and the sad, archaic world you live in.

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Jul 29th, 2007, 07:03 AM

#24

ira

Join Date: Jan 2003

Posts: 74,473

Thanks for the suggestions, K.

Jul 29th, 2007, 11:14 AM

#25

enroute

Join Date: Aug 2005

Posts: 1,021

I was just thinking, what an appropriate name for Br. Lipp

Jul 29th, 2007, 11:31 AM

#26

Graziella5b

Join Date: May 2003

Posts: 4,074

Hi Joe, why didn't you leave? I would have done so.
i am with you they were rude on purpose.

Jul 29th, 2007, 11:45 AM

#27

marigross

Join Date: Jun 2003

Posts: 3,774

I went there one evening. The inside was packed. I was offered a tiny corner table and I told him that I would rather sit on the terrace.

The waiter was not a happy-happy-joy-joy kind of guy. He stared at me (solo female) down his nose, I stared back (I am rather accomplished at returning stares). I ordered, he served. All business without any niceties involved, which is perfectly fine with me.

He did not speak anything but French but took my order in my mixture of English/Spanish peppered with 'Monsieur' and 'Merci'. I knew what wanted so I did not need his help for translation. I suspect that he would not have been helpful...

I had a great meal there. I would go again if I was in the vicinity.