L'épicurien - Piatti

"I don't tend to write reviews about bad places- I make excuses to myself and assume my expectations were too high, however L'epicurien has persuaded me to change the habit of a lifetime. We visit France a couple of times a year and eat out regularly. I'm a vegetarian so it can be a little complicated but I speak reasonable French so with good will on both sides it generally works out. We regularly choose a creperie as an easy option - lots of veggie ingrediants to make something tasty out of and very easy for the chef to put my request together from the basics. However at L'epicurien a request to put onions, cheese and mushrooms into one galette was met with an absolute refusal and complete unwillingness to discuss further. Some fraught dialogue back and forth between a sulky waitress and a presumaby sulkier but invisible chef resulted in a final frosty compromise with the ham being omitted from the cheese and ham pancake. Other highlights, the very warm white wine, the bread basket, desert menu etc slapped down without even making eye contact and the very cute 7 year old waiting on tables and serving evey plate he carried with both thumbs firmly embeded in the food. He was sweet but at 9pm he probably should be somewhere else. So I've given it 2 'stars' - the food was edible (if inflexible) but the service was absolutely dreadful and such a contrast to everywhere else we ate in the area."