Cafe Rouge

Usually I look down on this chain for mediocre food and service, however in this branch a waiter was so nice to my young son that like any parent when this happens, they could do no wrong.

My small son was in awe of their Christmas lights and the waiter noticed this and was so nice to him. The man showed him all the different settings for how the lights flash and interacted with him and even gave him a couple of the small wafers that they put on the ice creams.

This man is so special and an example to the rest of us of what real love and service is about to a level that conquers all.

This is just another branch of a chain restaurant, that usually are the only ones you can find in shopping centres. Whiteleys is not a very busy shopping centre and when my boyfriend and I went here for late lunch on Saturday it was almost empty. He had a baguette poulet and I had a croque monsieur. Both were nice, but nothing to die for and not particularly cheap either. The service was very quick and nice (but as I said the place was almost empty).

Even being a chain it has a nice atmosphere in some of their London branches (for example the one in Lancer Sq. in Kensington, you could tell is just a local restaurant from the outside, I reckon), but it's not the case with Whiteleys, but it just for being there.

I guess that considering the prices of most French restaurant this is not a bad choice if you're craving for this kind of food, don't want to break the bank and are not ultra-demanding, although I haven't tried speciality dishes.