DUO - Montpellier

Really nice restaurant, place de La Chapelle is really nice and peaceful, the restaurant is huge and they have a terrace where we ate with my friends. We took pastas and pizza, the menu of the day was delicious and about 12€ (pastas filled with ham and cheese and Parmesan sauce) and the pizza was about 14€ and enough for one. They have nice ice-cream and crumbles for dessert. The staff is really nice ! I recommend it to everyone who wants to enjoy a nice meal at a reasonable price !

I had dinner with five friends at Duo last Sunday. We quickly got a table, but then the very first of long waits started. It took quite some time until one of the two waiters handed us menus. We opted for the more expensive of the two menus on offer that evening (nothing à la carte). It turned out that neither the starter nor the main dish that several of us wanted were available for various reasons. Neither was our first wine option. Then the second of the long waits started - for the first dishes. Meanwhile, we asked for ash trays and despite asking both waiter no ash tray was to be seen at all during the long evening. Finally the starters arrived and the oysters gratinés only included three oysters. Another long wait for having the dishes taken out (during which one of the waiters went smoking around the corner). The main courses were overall OK but overpriced. However, the so called "Duo of coquilles de Saint Jacques (scallops) and scampi" turned out to include only one (sic!) scallop. Then followed another much too long wait during which we had to ask for a bottle of wine as compensation for the delay - indeed we got one bottle of red, but of horrible quality. By the time we finally got our desserts (AFTER WELL OVER TWO HOURS) it turned out that one dessert was missing. Five minutes later it arrived, and was not in line with the others, i.e. the sauce was missing on the chocolate cake. Obviously made in haste. We left without ordering coffee. Despite the fact that the little square where the restaurant is located is very charming, there is absolutely no reason to visit this restaurant. Unless you want to pay too much for mediocre food with long waits and bad service.

We chose this restaurant because it looked a bit upmarket & seemed to have a good menu. What a mistake. The restaurant was quiet & we waited nearly an hour for the entrées to arrive. They were cold but we were hungry & ate them. Very poor quality food. After another 50 minutes my son went off to find the waitress who said they were just being finished off. 20 minutes later she arrived again to say they were on their way. I told her not to bother but she ran off & 2 minutes later our main meals arrived. They were stone cold & looked revolting. We all ordered salmon which is not hard to cook. I left money for the wine & we all walked out.The owner of the restaurant was there entertaining his friends. I am sure if he put more time into managing his restaurant he would not have people leaving without paying for food. Give this on a miss.

This restaurant need a lot of work, we went to this place and it was a menu for 33 Euros, we sat down and we told we had a to choose meat or fish, as the chef would just make what he wanted, this was a massive mistake. We received a starter of foie gras (deep fried) you could not taste the foie gras at all, it could of been anything the deep frying of such a delicate and beautiful thing was not good at all. Also our friends had a type of soup, but you could taste all it was, was blended courgette and canned squirty cream, with more squirty cream on top. Main course was even worse, we where never told what meat it was, I think it was pork or beef, but not sure, it was a slop I would not give it to a wild dog. Also in mine I had half a bulb of garlic, not good flavouring, the chef need a lot of training.The dessert was the worst a slice of melon a wedge of pineapple and a watery carton chocolate sauce, as I say again the chef knows nothing about flavours, presentation, or good food. I was so upset for the whole table, it was so awful. I would never go or recommend this restaurant to anyone visiting or living here. Once again, god awful.

A wonderful evening, excellent food and first rate and friendly service. This restaurant exceeded our exceptions a deserves to do well. Not expensive.