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La Madeleine

La Madeleine

6211 Columbia Crossing Dr, Columbia, MD, 21045, United States

Cafe • French • Brunch • Bakeries


"I am now physically sick as a direct result of eating this food. I was perfectly fine before. I will be contacting the health department to report as I have no doubt this is a direct result of the food preparation and unsanitary conditions of the restaurant. Update: gas stations have been quality food than this place. Food was in fact cold and disgusting. Clearly had been made before hang and been sitting with no attempt to heat it up. The bread on the sandwich was rock hard and stale and the “soup” was lumpy and the texture of watery oatmeal. I assume it’s supposed to resemble potatoes. All you can taste is salt. From the little that I ate i immoderately felt queasy and then very Ill after less than an hour. We ordered a pickup order of almost $50 and when we got there the drinks we ordered were out of stock. We were denied a refund AND denied the option of getting another drink and expected to leave empty handed after spending almost $10 on drinks that were not given to us. My husband had to fight with the employee and waste more of our time just to get a refund the employee was too lazy to process. Imagine how much “effort” they put into the food and cleanliness. The whole restaurant was dirty and disorganized and the power kept going out. I can’t imagine what the kitchens look like. We would have been fine just leaving with a different drink or even a fountain drink but they couldn’t even manage to do that. Don’t waste your money here. I’m sure by the time we get home the food will be cold and soggy."

Boston Harbor Holiday Brunches

Boston Harbor Holiday Brunches

70 Rowes Wharf, Boston, United States

Beer • Wine • Cheese • Seafood


"The brunch was incredibly disappointing and not just for the price point. The cost was $165 a person (you are charged in advance plus gratuity) and by the time we arrived the food was totally destroyed. The cheese plates on the buffet where so mangled that other parts and bits of food had been smashed into the cheese…this grossness was never cleaned up or removed. One of the offerings for kids was a donut “bar” that’s a lofty description of one small bowl of cold donut holes. Omelette bar was good and at the basic expectation but literally everything else was picked over or missing all together. Then let’s talk about the small plates of leather like bits of ham sitting on book shelves under the heat lamps…honestly I think there was other meat as well but I couldn’t identify it. In the same section was mozzarella and tomato’s, another part I kept thinking would be refreshed but that didn’t happen. Overall I was told it would also be a kid friendly event but the candy bar (which was lovely by the way) cannot be the only kid friend food. Our kids would have eaten the veggie sushi but unfortunately it had turned brown and I couldn’t subject them to that. So next is the shellfish, we love shellfish and it was one of the reasons we decided to do this for Easter (other than kid friendly, etc)…the oysters had turned lukewarm as had the the shrimp and it was deeply concerning. It did not appear that they had the fresh seafood on a timer for refreshing at all. The service staff really seemed to do their best with the situation but overall I would never recommend the Boston Harbor hotel to anyone for their holiday brunch."