Restaurant Reviews

Cafe La Fournaise

We were pleased to see a great looking coffee shop in Grand Baie with nice sidewalk seating area, Grand Baie could really use a lot more sidewalk type cafes so we were interested to try this one.

On our first visit there were 4 people sitting in the outside area and just 1 person inside. We took a seat in the very nice indoor area, after 5 minutes of being ignored we...

started trying to get the waiters attention to no avail. After 10 minutes we were quite annoyed and after another couple of minutes we left without having been served or even acknowledged.

A month or so later we gave it another try and sat outside which was really nice on a warm day. The service was better but not great, the food was ok, we both had a chicken salad which was nicely presented and quite tasty. The coffee which should really be very good in this type of cafe was not warm. We sent the coffee back explaining to the waiter that it was not hot, when he took it inside it was obvious that the lady inside who could have been the manager or owner was not at all happy with us sending it back. She looked at us as though we were causing a big problem but never came out to speak to us. Anyway the second cup arrived hot but a very average cup of coffee.

Not going to rush back anytime soon.