Hippopotamus, so called France restaurant!

Hippopotamus,

Paris 14E Montparnasse,

68, Bd. Du Montparnasse.

            Created in Paris in 1968, the Hippopotamus restaurant Grill has gained a strong reputation, especially in the Paris region, with the widest selections of cut from well-known Sirloin, Tenderloin and Rib Steak, to the rare Hanger and Skirt Steaks., at affordable prices. Hippopotamus welcomes diners in a contemporary setting and friendly ambience, conducive to a relaxing meal, making it a favourite meeting place for lunch and dinner, and meals with family, colleagues or friends. Hippopotamus is owned by Group Flo SA, a France-based holding company that owns 300 restaurants, of which 135 are hippopotamus.

            The moment I stepped in to this restaurant, I knew something wasn’t right as we are on the hostess stand waiting for someone to bring us to our table for 6 pax. To our acknowledgment no one came and me myself have to go straight front, confronting the manager to get us the seat. Furthermore, the place wasn’t pack with customer, which wasn’t excusable. The seat given look as if they made from aluminum but it is conceal as it is aluminum but it’s actually made from plastic for someone my size, that weights approximately 80kg to sit on a plastic chair and to know that this restaurant is well-known internationally providing plastic chair, stroke my disappointment to another degree. However, the menu was well presented but there was no description for the food. Despite that, we have some common knowledge before we came to France, knowing how to pronounce the name of the food and knowing what the food consist is one the task we needed to do, for an example; crème brulee is a popular dessert also known as cream catalane and is made of custard. Moreover, the waiter is what made the whole experience a disaster.  Nonetheless, the side station we saw few rats crawling underneath the cupboards which definitely disgust our appetite. On the other hand, The food took a very long period of time to prepare and she didn’t inform us as a customer who waited 1 hour for the main dish to come.  Also, the waiter wasn’t attentive at all as we called for service by raising our hand and no one came to our aid even though we raised our hand for around 5 minutes. When the food came, the waiter looked depressed, as if she wants show how moody was she and then slightly tossed the plates to our table as if the plates were metal plates.  After finish eating our appetizer, main dish and dessert, we wanted to go off as soon as possible because of the dissatisfaction on the service, ambience and food. As we requested our bills, it took another 15 minutes for them to just bring the bill.

            Overall, this restaurant is one the worst restaurant I’ve ever been to. Nevertheless, I’ll not recommend this particular restaurant to my friends and family due to these circumstances. Lack of attention, bullies minority (Asian customer), and destructive environment that is now is one of my blacklisted restaurants to go to.

Source : http://www.hippopotamus.fr/