Tremblay-en-France
Cafe les Saisons

Cafe les Saisons

Sheraton Paris | Aérogare Charles de Gaulle 2, 95716 Roissy-en-France, France, 93290, Tremblay-en-France

Café • Soupe • Européen • Français


"Once upon a time, a visit to France could start or end with a fine meal at a restaurant at the airport. Not so easy these days, Charles DeGaulle Airport is a gastronomic desert. Les Saisons Restaurant just above the railway station at Terminal 2...is a case in point but only one of the many symptoms of terminal decline. We often change planes at CDG and have an hour or two to enjoy whatever pleasures there are around the airport. Les Saisons used to be one of the few places where you might have a civilized unhurried meal. The food is still pretty good, but the service is very bad and standards have slipped dramatically. In my view this is not due to the staff but the management. Some examples from today’s encounter. It is Sunday and we arrive on our train shortly after 2 pm. Service on the patio is closing down, we ask for a table and are told to go around to the main dining room entrance where we wait for 15 minutes. We are shown to our table and left for 10 minutes to look around. Lighting in the dining room is poor but the signs of decay are evident. The veneer has peeled from the wooden cabinets below the buffet tables, there are stains on the carpets, recovered bread baskets are roughly stacked. A waiter brings us three bread rolls, on the side of the bread basket a wad of chewing gum has been squashed. I point this out to a member of staff, she apologizes takes the basket away and then brings the same basket back with the chewing gum removed but it is the same basket and the same number of rolls. The meal followed and the food was expensive but good, the wine exorbitant as usual but good. High prices require high standards and this restaurant did not provide them."