Roseval

10 Responses to Roseval

1. Michael Marco says:

   August 1, 2012 at 1:49 pm

   Great food + charming staff + an energetic & fun atmosphere = Roseval

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2. La Tache 1962 says:

   September 10, 2012 at 2:34 pm

   Very nice staff … food well…is a real work in progress for sure

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3. Charles kavanagh says:

   February 4, 2013 at 7:47 pm

   Wonderfully creative food, excellent complimenting wines brought forth by a young, multi lingual staff in a joyous intimate atmosphere! An experience to be repeated.

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4. Kai says:

   February 12, 2013 at 9:25 am

   Placed a reservation 3 weeks ahead, confirmed it the day before (all in french, as they like it…). When we arrived, our reservation had been “canceled”. No excuse, no nothing, just the living cliché of french arrogance towards foreigners. Disgusting. Seems like the Hype has been getting to their heads. (Only bearded hipsters in the room, by the way). No matter how good the food might be – a place like that is a no-go area.

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5. poli says:

   February 12, 2013 at 2:34 pm

   Kai, why cannot you just say arrogance instead of French arrogance, especially when nowadays, in most hip Paris restaurants, the staff is quite international ? Similarly most of the staff in London restaurants is not Brit.

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6. Ptipois says:

   February 15, 2013 at 9:33 am

   And people screw up everywhere. And fail to apologize everywhere.
   If you believe in ‘French arrogance’ you shouldn’t even be visiting France in the first place. Why torture yourself?

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7. John Talbott says:

   February 18, 2013 at 10:09 pm

   As I keep pointing out as the oldest and crustiest guy on this site, I’ve been treated rudely three times in 60 years in Paris; once by a Polish vender, once by an Italian olive oil merchant and once by a New Yorker who took me for a West Side Snob (well, I made that up, but it’s true).
   I’ve not been to Roseval, it’s only open at night when my demons come out, but what Americans take as rude is most often Parisien rushedness, bistrot attitude and brasserie hustling; you want rude – try Katz’s, the Carnegie, try Lutece in 1960-something when André Soltner walked up to our table and said while we were passing around terrines – “Don’t Play With the Food.”

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8. Kai says:

   February 19, 2013 at 12:42 am

   That’s why I wrote “the *living cliché* of french arrogance towards foreigners”. And to suggest not to travel to a country just because some people there fulfill a certain cliché is just silly. I love France and Paris and have been and eaten there like a 100 times. Love the people, too. Just sometimes you encounter the negative clichés, as in every country (like: Berliners with a very unique kind of grumpiness and unfriendliness.) – why not mention it?
   (By the way: a kind of slight snobbery from waiters is not a cliché I “believe in”, but something that I have encounterd quite some times in high-end-restaurants in france (and italy) – and since I haven’t encountered it that often in any other country, I would certainly call it specific to these 2 countries.)

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9. Ptipois says:

   February 25, 2013 at 8:20 am

   Well, as you write, they’re only clichés. So why mention them?

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   • Kai says:

     April 5, 2013 at 12:07 pm

     Because it is a quick way to get a “picture” into readers’ minds in a comments section like this one. And in a way it is funny if you actually encounter a cliché.
     …Hm, why do I even answer such silly questions…?

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