I don't understand La Coupole in Hotel Le Crystal. It seems to have all of the ingredients to be amazing. It has a good farm-to-table concept, a beautiful interior design and a well-stocked bar.
We first went for breakfast and I got oatmeal. It was good. I liked it. My side of bacon tasted gross but had delightful texture. They deep fried it. Who deep fries bacon? The server explained that deep frying the bacon makes it less fatty... Not sure about that. It was thin and very crispy. M didn't care for her breakfast.
We also went for drinks one evening. There was nobody to be seen. No host or hostess. It was dimly lit. We thought it might be closed! Then a server happened to breeze past and we told him we wanted to have drinks and maybe dessert.
He brought us upstairs and onto the terrace. It was a muggy evening and sitting outside would not have been our first choice.
All I can say was that service was really, really weird. The drinks were medicinal and we did not like them. We opted not to have dessert. After that evening, we chose not to return to the restaurant even though we were staying at the hotel for the week.