Dilia

Great overall experience. We took the 7 dishes menu and it was the right amount to be full. I would highly recommend making a reservation as there were no empty tables throughout the night. They have a really great and complete Italian wine selection to go with each dish . Lastly the waiter was very nice and gave a detailed description of each dish.

Exceptional and creative cuisine, very good value for 55€ lunch tasting menu. Friendly service. The price of glassed wine was a bit more than expected, as we didn’t check with the server first, but the quality remains excellent. Highly recommended.

There is an incomprehensible gap between reviews and actual experience. There are so many better places in Paris, this one should be forgotten forever for the sake of all tastebuds. First, the imposed 5-course menu at 69 euros (wine pairing excluded) was, for lack of a better word, absolutely disgusting; like a child playing chef experimenting with flavors that should never ever have shared a plate. Everything was so overwhelmingly salty I could literally feel my blood pressure go up with every bite. The fish dish was grossly over-cooked, covered with raw mushrooms drowning in a random spice mix that could have come from tesco. The poultry dish was sitting in a random vinegar sauce that didn’t complement any flavor - it seemed like the chef had seen a recipe on a blog and failed to reproduce it. I returned all my plates uneaten and nobody came to check why or offer an alternative. Then there was the waiter, Federico, who acted like he was on some kind of chemically-induced trip the whole time, completely unable to read or pick up any social cues from customers. I now see that he’s mentioned in a number of other reviews for his surprisingly agressive rudeness. At the end of the meal I asked to speak to someone, the chef / owner Michael came up; I politely said that I wasn’t able to eat anything because of the (paraphrasing) heart-attack inducing sodium content. The chef said defiantly : “I saw that, but everybody else liked it, so your taste is the problem”. Taken aback, I asked if he intended to present me with a 70 euro bill given the fact that I hadn’t eaten anything, as he had seen. He responded “Well, of course. This is how restaurants work”. I said that, unsurprisingly, this wasn’t my first time in a restaurant and that at that price level you’d expect someone to check on you if you returned a full dish. He said that he was aware I didn’t like it, and his waiter had checked on me - he hadn’t, he’d simply said “ok” and taken the plates away. I attempted to interject with a comment that the waiter had been particularly unpleasant all evening, which then prompted the waiter to jump in and scream - and I kid you not - that I had “raped him by asking his name and introducing myself at the beginning of the meal”. You literally couldn’t make this up. So here I am, out 70 euros, with an empty stomach, nightmarish memories of Frankenstein dishes that should never have seen the light of day, and an accusation of “rape” (his literal words) because I introduced myself to the waiter. Hopefully my experience can save others the misfortune of crossing paths with the chef’s equally terrible food and attitude; then the 70 euros I spent on breathing this restaurant’s air tonight wouldn’t have been completely lost.

Small relaxed restaurant offering good food and excellent service for approx 25 covers. The 7 course taster option was varied and served over a three hour stay, with an extensive wine menu or pairings to call upon. Our host for the evening was most engaging and took time with all diners to talk through the dishes and their ingredients.