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Le Bon Vivant is our restaurant of choice in Franschhoek. Superbly presented & delicious modern cuisine and friendly service make this a regular for us. The patronage from international tourists is an indication of the quality. The food in our judgement is better than many of the much hyped restaurants in the area.
Martin : May 29, 2009
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Ummm, Tarryn- perhaps you should Google Hercule Poirot... I think SJ was being facetious...
I : January 16, 2009
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I just can't help myself but to comment. It is no excuse to serve water or anything in a dirty glass. There is no reason for a waiter to be rude when that glass gets sent back. If anybody, comes into my restaurant and asks for a glass of water, he will get it in a clean glass. The reason is because that is the way it's done. Anybody that feels it is ok to serve from a dirty glass concerns me. I hope I am never in the position to enjoy a drink or meal with somebody that is that narrow minded. The key word in this whole saga is dirty. If that was my restaurant i would show the waiters dismissal letter on this site. Sis.
Restaurant Owner
Luiz : January 15, 2009
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With reference to SJ's input.
I think it would be a brilliant idea to contact the restaurant to ask the waiter's side of the story.
1. Was it a single brunch amongst three people?
2. Could we have the waiter's side of the story
Thanks
Tarryn : January 15, 2009
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Hello people - have some standards please! Under no circumstances is it okay to drink from a dirty glass- ever! One should hope to leave a restaurant with a sense of satisfaction and well-being. Not the the eerie feeling that you might have contracted the bubonic plague from the glass you were sipping from... regardless of what you were drinking!
R : January 15, 2009
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May I point out that the word brunch could be used in either the singular or plural sense. Taking this into account, we actually don't know if they ordered one meal or three. Shall we give Hercule Poirot a call to investigate?
And while I?m at it, how can people have such unimaginably horrendous hygiene standards, that it?s ok for a glass to be dirty just because they?re not paying for the drink in it. Yuck! That?s like saying its ok to fly in an aircraft that hasn?t complied with safety regulations because you got the ticket free.
SJ : January 15, 2009
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Ok peeps - can I suggest we move this debate, along with the price one at Societi, to another forum. This is meant to be to review restaurants - let's move this to the Food 24 blogs and either comment on Restaurant Ranter or Restaurant Staff get their own back. Much better forum for us all to bicker back and forth and leave this column for genuine issues to do with food from people who have actually been and eaten at the venue.
restaurant : January 15, 2009
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It looks like most people are missing the entire point here or am I seeing things differently.
Three ladies go to a restaurant and order one meal to share amongst all three!!! The waiter is obviously brimming over this - taking up a table where he could have served three meals. He now gets asked to bring three tap waters to the table. This he does - he then gets called back to change a glass which he duly does only to be told it is not good enough by the patron. He then has a chirp from another patron that her glass is dirty. He then asks them to leave. Why? But for all the people defending this - here is the question. If the waiter had poured the water over the patron's head- would you whingers now be discussing if the patron's hair was dirty? Oh please.
: January 15, 2009
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Sue If I was to get a free meal would I have to accept dirty cutlery to eat it with and not complain because it was free, don't think so. Me personally I will order tap water we live in one of the few countries in the world were you can still drink water out of the tap so I will not be as pretentious as the next guy, and order good old fashioned water out of the tap. Till I cant any more, and am I cheapskate not just sensible? Some of those bottled waters taste like sewerage. Tap water all the way charge me if you have to:-)
Cat : January 15, 2009
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This is actually getting very boring now. I thought it had come to an end but then A had to add his two cents worth not once but twice. I tend to agree with Sue and Violet. It is unacceptable to order tap water in a restaurant. Subject hopefully closed.
Louise : January 14, 2009
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Right, here we go again....
I do not have trouble with paying for water. I am definitely not a cheapie and looking for a free meal. Do no generalize. That's just being silly. If you would read beyond the water story, the glass was dirty. The water in the glass was just merely there. If the glass was clean, the water would have been consumed. This is becoming real trivial now. There are bigger issues than having it out here on food24 about water and glasses. I'm out, not another word will be heard by about this. If you Sue feel that you would love to continue, by all means. With love from an assumed cheapskate (me), to you, the bored.
A : January 14, 2009
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Oh no Sue. I am definitely not a cheapie, love eating out and if I have to pay for my water, then so be it! Please don't generalize. I hope you now understand, the complaint here is not (once again) about the water but about the dirty glass the waiter did not want to change. It's the service that's the hassle, not the product. What's hard to understand about that?
A : January 14, 2009
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People seem to have the knives out for me about my comments. However I feel if you are given something for free you should not be complaining. If you order something which you know that you will not be paying for - how dare you complain.So the people who have so much to say are obviously the cheapies that want everything for nothing and are not wanted in a restaurant. Stay at home...
Sue : January 14, 2009
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This is so funny! Sue, you are kinda off your rocker. As mentioned before, the issue is not with the water but the glass. If they had ordered a bottle of wine, the waiter poured and they found out the glass was dirty, would you say that the waiter has the right not to pour the wine again because he is wasting it? The glass was dirty and should have been changed or cleaned. If they were to order bottled water, should they have gotten a straw and drank from the plastic water bottle like they were at a park instead a restaurant?
Annie : January 13, 2009
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Sue, your comment is the most ridiculous of the lot! Of course they have the right to complain about dirty glasses!
Teresa : January 13, 2009
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Camille was not paying for the water so therefore she has no right to complain about the glass. If she had ordered bottle water she would have had every right to complain. The mere fact the three of them ordered one brunch to share says it all!
Sue : January 13, 2009
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Violet and Sue: whether it is tap or bottled water, you still drink out of a glass! The issue was not the tap water, rather the glass!
maggie : January 13, 2009
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It's always the people who are the cheapies that want tap water and are the most annoying.
Violet : January 12, 2009
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Camille
For goodness sake why don't you just order a bottle of water and pay for it. Why should restaurants have to run around putting water into glasses for you and you expect it for free. Restaurants charge corkage and I think they should now start charging tappage!
Sue : January 12, 2009
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So we came to this diner today for brunch with my sister and mother, and after requesting that the water glass be changed because it had lip marks on it, the waiter came back with another dirty glass. When my sister noticed her glass had the same rim markings, she asked for her glass to be changed as well. We had already ordered a full brunch at this point and were waiting for the order to come in. The waiter came back and said he didn't want to change the water, and couldn't waste any water (this is tap we are talking about!) anymore, as the markings were not what we thought but some dried up water stains! As if we didn't know what saliva/lip gloss on a glass rim looked like!
I had never experienced such rude behaviour from a waiter before.
He said he wouldn't change the glasses, and we could leave if we felt like it.
If they don't mind drinking out of dirty glasses, it doesn't mean you have to.
camille : January 12, 2009
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