Going to Chez le Chef was the single most bewildering, awful restaurant experience I had in my life. It looked like a cute little French bistro from the outside - went in and the place was completely empty (bad sign). The chef (as evidenced by his full chef's uniform and hat) told us to take a seat upstairs. The place looked like, as my friend put it ""a Hallmark card"" with Christmas and Valentine's day decorations everywhere and a mural on the wall with a tree and an owl. There were also pictures on the wall of the Chef - Chef Frederic. He himself took our order - we ordered a coffee, a cafe au lait, a croissant, and two fruit salads. We got the croissant and it was totally undercooked in the middle. It came with some kind of preserves and they smelled awful. Then we got the fruit salads, and the fruit on top tasted fine, then I got a little further in and the fruit started to taste really odd - turns out there was some kind of syrup/liquor in the dish, really over-the-top sweet and cloying. Then, my friend put milk in her coffee and the milk actually curdled. A busboy then came over and I told him the croissant was undercooked, and he replied ""It's fresh!"" ""It may be fresh,"" I said (although it clearly was not), ""but it's undercooked."" He responded, ""You can pay downstairs"" and took the croissant away. He did not bother to ask us why we did not eat our fruit salads or drink our coffees. Then we went downstairs to pay, and they charged us THIRTY DOLLARS for this meal of which we barely even took four bites. My friend paid the bill as she was in a rush and just wanted us to get out of there. Oddly enough, the chef seemed oblivious to the fact that we did not eat/like our items, even offering us two small cookies on our way out (which I declined). The whole experience was best characterized as extremely strange.
Cons: Most awful restaurant in possibly entire world
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