I enjoy great food. I enjoy new places. So, when a restaurant is slowly rising towards the top positions in the restaurants in Bucharest, getting a lot of five stars reviews, I have to check it.
What was I expecting to find in such an...appraised restaurant?
1. Great food.
Well, I was disappointed to find just decent food that is far from surprising or original. A great dessert, then? No, my choice looked good, but tasted like having been just taken out of a hypermarket box.
2. Skilled personnel.
Not my luck! A young guy was very nice but totally helpless and certainly did not know anything about food nor the food industry.
3. A wonderful location?
I admit that the place is inside a good 4 star hotel. But this is it. An indoor garden helps the atmosphere, a little, though.
4. Some surprising details?
I am not a fan of a menu that is not on paper and you have to browse through an outdated tablet.
Also, I was not ready (nor did agree) the next surprise- the fact that you do not have pricing, you can pay as much as you like.
This is, in fact, the click that made most of the 5-star reviews. Well, it didn't click for me.
All-in-all? And here comes the reason I wrote the review... All of you, reviewers out there, if you find a decent place with some surprising touch, put a three star on it, a four star, maybe, but do not haste into five stars. Because, after your continuous five-starring, somebody else might expect a great place, get disappointed and, instead of letting a decent meal be, it will trigger in her or him an urge to pick the tablet, go on TripAdvisor and write a 2-star review.
As I do now.
Even if, in the end, nor the restaurant or the people there would deserve such a bad appreciation.More