La Petite Auberge Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Big portions, good taste."
• "Not only the food is delicious and affordable, but staff wear face covering and they made us feel safe."
• "The food is delicious and the portion is generous."
• "All reasonably priced and available as a part of a 2-course or 3-course menu, or à la carte."
• "We tried the duck and the chicken with lentils and they were both very tender and tasty."
• "Meals were cooked to perfection, I had amazing lamb and she had a lovely chicken."
• "Cod in tomato sauce is gorgeous, as is the salmon salad."

Cons:

• "I noticed a grey and black hair in my mashed potatoe."
• "The entrecôte looked like TESCO meat and the sauce it came with was watery and tasted bad."
• "Sadly, everything we ordered lacked flavour and tasted rather bland: the onion soup, the mussels, and the mains."
• "The steak was a fatty grisley cut and there was mainly chips and hardly any salad."
• "Many of the dishes didn't taste French, and the Toulouse sausage was definitely not from Toulouse."
• "The food was tasteless (very likely frozen meals)."
• "The food quality unfortunately was far lower than we expected, the beef bourguinon lacked a strong flavour and we had to add salt, the muscles sauce was also very bland."

Service

Pros:

• "Staff are very friendly and the restaurant is beautiful."
• "Staff were great."
• "Staff was attentive although the waiting between starter and main was definitely too long."
• "Attentive waiters and altogether a fine dinner."
• "Service was great, friendly and attentive."
• "Service was excellent and the ambience of the restaurant is also good."
• "The service is quick and friendly."

Cons:

• "Manager refused to do anything about it, and said there was nothing he could do, eventually gave me £20 and told me to go away."
• "We asked for bread to eat with the fried camembert and had to remind them a couple of times, which meant the camembert was cold when we got the bread."
• "No under 10s after 5pm? Are you even serious?"
• "Terrible, mostly surly service from people who don't seem to want to work in a restaurant."
• "No tap water after repeated requests over 90 minutes."
• "Service of the staff quite inattentive."
• "The restaurant wasn't full but unfortunately the staff didn't seem that interested, and they were not particularly polite or helpful."

Ambiance

Pros:

• "A really romantic and popular French restaurant right in the heart of upper street."
• "Going for a rural french farmhouse vibe in the heart of Islington."
• "It is little, lovely French restaurant on the upper street. Nice atmosphere."
• "Very cute, rustic French atmosphere, perfect for a date."
• "The interior is rustic in french style and very romantic specially if you going there for dinner!"
• "Nice place for early evening dinner, comfortable and relaxing."
• "The restaurant has a great buzzing atmosphere."

Cons:

• "Our evening began with a waitress literally shoulder barging passed my wife."
• "Quaint, little and cozy but without the French village feel which might appeal to some war veteran Brits?"
• "The restaurant really needs a make over. It's decor is dated and the atmosphere a bit sad."
• "It's a shame when a neighbourhood restaurant abandoned the neighbours."
• "Being denied entry on the basis of the age of one of your party doesn't make for great service or atmosphere."
• "We made a booking in the fig and olive a table for 8 when we got there they tried to sit us at separate tables."
• "Having to get up from our table to beg for service after not seeing a waiter for several minutes."

Value

Pros:

• "All washed down with good inexpensive wine."
• "The food was really delicious and had great gluten and dairy free options."
• "The menu has a great variety, prices are brilliant for the size of the meals."
• "Menu is very affordable."
• "Very reasonably priced, even the wine for this part of London."
• "Prices - especially if you take advantage of their tastecard offer - are reasonable for Islington."
• "Reasonably priced with a good wine selection to boot."

Cons:

• "I visited La Petite Auberge to try the 'Gluten Free' crepes... they are definitely NOT Gluten Free!"
• "For my prawn starter I was only presented with 3 prawns :( thats 9 prawns for close to £25 as threee of us ordered."
• "Tonight even tried to charge £3.50 for 2 glasses of tap water."
• "The food was terrible really nasty and very expensive."
• "Until he charged us 25% of the bill as *service charge*."
• "I had the calves liver from the daily specials menu and found it gristly and not very pleasant to eat."
• "However the food was below par. My charcuterie starter consisted of a cheap tasting pate and rubbery salami."