Chilly Reception at Fort Greene's L'Epicerie?
We’ve been hearing a lot of people complaining about the bad vibes at gourmet market L’Epicerie on Vanderbilt. Evidently, the owners aren’t exactly winning customers over with their warm and fuzzy interpersonal skills. How have readers’ experiences been recently?
We’ve been hearing a lot of people complaining about the bad vibes at gourmet market L’Epicerie on Vanderbilt. Evidently, the owners aren’t exactly winning customers over with their warm and fuzzy interpersonal skills. How have readers’ experiences been recently?
Can someone please send this thread to them? PLEASE???
Thanks for your comments Clinton Hillbilly! They are so rude. I wused to be so friendly with the older couple that ran the store, would speak to them in French. Recently when I or other famly have gone in, a young tattooed woman who is there is so rude. And no, this is not being French, but rude. Clearly bothered when asking for help because you interupted her conversation with her friends, throws a bag at you if you ask for. I used to like going there, but now, I will not.
OOOoooohhh! I, along with many neighbors, have HUGE bones to pick with the owner (JB) of this establishment and his former loser restaurant, “A Table”–nothing but sheer and consistent rudeness, and many many accounts of embarrassingly inappropriate behavior. I agree with the rash generalization of the French, but “Chez Oskar” blows all of the bad vibes out of the water. It’s still a huge regular favorite and encourage all to spend money there 🙂
Put off by a no cell phone sign? The store is like 10ft*10ft. You can’t shop in there for ten minutes without being on the phone?
You couldn’t pay me to go there. I had high hopes, but was treated very rudely there on my first visit and never went back.
Sorry the (ex-) wife is NOT French–not friendly either, even before the divorce. Also when you open a neighborhood shop you damn well better be polite and engaging. It’s just good business. Otherwise you reduce your number of potential customers–and get called out on local blogs.
My Fresh Direct delivery guy is ever so much nicer and their selection of cheeses is fabulous.
The place is so adorable, the cheeses are amazing and it makes me smile when I walk by! Please keep shopping there, the store needs to stay there! It sounds like the owners have been through a lot recently and probably business is not as great as it could be so lets help them out. It in turn helps us out by adding value and beauty to our neighborhood. What, do you want to be limited to Elly’s Market on dekalb? Talk about attitude. If their teenage daughter that works there rolls her eyes at me one more time, I’ll feed her to the french!
Hmm. I’ve only been in there once or twice and was kind of turned off by the “No Cell Phones” sign (we’re talking about basically a deli, not a library, here), sparse selection, and chilly service. Disappointing cuz I live around the corner.
This is so deja vu — wasn’t the same discussion up here a few months ago? They’re not unfriendly, just French, as pointed out above.
I think this place is ok (they are French after all, so they need some attitude lets give them a break)
What hood really needs is a proper bakery with real bread.