Hippopotamus - Saint-Rambert-d'Albon

I had a piece of plastic in my burger and the staff demanded that we pay for the food anyway. The meat was average on taste, fries need second cooking and the ratatouille was thick instead of tender and sweat. The following day, I had a painful stomachache. Stay away from this place they call restaurant !

01.05.2018 Restaurant Hippopotamus. On the way Geneva Nice we stopped for lunch. One of us did order chicken wings and the other one half a chicken. We waited a long time and finally arrived the half chicken and hamburger. We said that we never ordered hamburger but waiting for chicken wings. Waitress said “sorry” and went with hamburger to kitchen. We waited additional 30 min. but chicken wings was never served. We asked for the bill and saw that chicken wings was even not on the bill. The total cost on the bill was 32.80 €. We gave 53 € and asked to get 20 € back. The waitress could not understand why 20€ back. She asked for help 2 other waitresses. They all (very young) could not understand either why we want 20€ back. When we started be loud came their boss. She understood very quick, said “sorry” to us and explained to the girls to give us a 20 € back. Two girls went to the kassa. We followed after them and got to see that they still could not understand why we wanted 20€ back... they stood there with calculator and dubble checked what will be 53€ 32.80 € ... We thought that we made it easy for them by giving 50€ 3 euro in coins and asking for 20€ back, but the girls totally confused. What kind of education give todays schools is a big question.

This restaurant has a great selection of meat cuisine and the location of the restaurant is very good.

Après un long trajet nous décidons de déjeuner sur le relais autoroute chez hippopotamus.Prise en charge, placement et prise de commande relativement rapide. Des chips offertes pour nous faire patienter. A souligner un très joli cadre à coté d'un petit étang.Nous regrettons le non respect du niveau de cuisson et la tiédeur de la viande. L'attente pour les plats à avoisiné les 20 mn. Le manque de sourire des serveuses en nombre trop faible à ce moment là pour assurer un service de qualité. Enfin rapport qualité prix déficitaire.

Lors d'un déplacement sur un week-end, nous nous sommes arrêtés aussi bien à l'aller qu'au retour dans cet hyppopotamus. Le midi , nous avons pu déjeuner au bord d'un agréable plan d'eau, avec canards et roseaux. Dommage que ça n'a pas été possible au diner lors du retour. Les plats, sans être de la grande gastronomie, est dans la lignée de ce que l'on trouve dans les autres hippos. A recommander si on décide de faire une pause en prenant son temps. L'emplacement sur une aire d'autoroute se ressent dans les prix.