Province Breads & Cafe

03/04/09

Worst Bistro in Town

by flapmeat at Citysearch

Came in ordered a Frittata, told to wait 10 minutes. Not sure why, as all is done is reheat this in a Microwave. Well after 10 minutes went by, I came up to the counter to inquire about it. The counter person, like peaved and nodded towards the coffee machine. After asking, the person was like getting rattled and said, I put it over on that counter 5 minutes ago!

No one told me, apparently it was just sitting there getting cold again.

I've been seeing this behavior over and over again, and Provence just lost another long-term customer! The service here is not worth it! No wonder the store is empty most lunch hours thru the week. They must hate their customers to get treated this way.

• Pros: Coffee
• Cons: Too many locations, need to close them all

02/06/09

Start by noticing

by localobserver at Citysearch

High Prices does not deserve Bad Service, Improper Plating, Inconsistent Food Quality drives us away, Not these reviews, I'll bet if one polled the whole bunch of ex-employees if they would like their jobs back at any compensation they would only agree if they had a current job that was beneath this company. Or desparate in some other way. The last review is obvious owner driven. Skip over the Bread & Co., and take a look at its postings and how it seems that owners are doing the same thing. Perhaps both have ex-employees that write bad reviews, and you have to ask, why? Its obvious that Provence has had an employee moral problems for quite some time, most likely to a lack or bad training and who knows what else.

Remarkably all the products are not bad, coffee is hot, pastries are great and most of the time in stock as well if you are in the mood to try out a sandwich with soup. As far as being French in Nashville, come on who are you kidding! French culinary would blush at the notion.

Readers go out and eat at Provence during rush times, count the check and think is the price justified? Write in your comments good or bad, but do so often. If you want to keep Provence in Nashville, start by noticing, and give your comments frequently. Who knows, maybe the owners will finally do something about it.

• Pros: Location is OK
• Cons: Bad Product Mix, Lack of consistent Customer Service

01/30/09

Overpriced slimy meat and stale bread!

by skippy2009 at Citysearch

If my dog pinched a loaf between two pieces of stale bread it would taste better than any sandwich on their menu and I would not have to wait 2 hours for some nose pierced pot-head to screw up my order. If I wanted slimy meat and stale bread, I would have gone through Subway?s dumpster. The food and service would definitely be better from a self serve dumpster. This is exactly where my sandwich ended up.

Did I mention that it was also too expensive?

• Pros: The parking was better than the food and the service, and I was unable to find a spot
• Cons: The food, the service, and the parking were all terrible

01/28/09

Bad Business

by DoubleD1234 at Citysearch

Everyone should know that they are a bad local business. They have not paid subcontractors on their store in Hill Center. Mr. Hill would have been embarrassed to lease to these dirt bags. Please know that they are unethical, sleazy, maggots.

09/25/08

Bad Business practices

by european2 at Citysearch

I would suggest that Provence sell or go bankrupt or just cut losses and shut-down. It is clear that you have lower quality, poor customer service and seem to be just handing on to survive. Most of all you are forced to do business that threatens us all. You have issues with the health dept by serving food out of temp, etc, you drive around without insurance because you lost your insurance due to non-payment, you fail to pay your bills because you do not have the money and you are not committed to the business (why else would the owners go to Ireland for two weeks prior to opening the Green Hills Store). Sometimes it is just time to go. Let someone else have a shot at the Artisan Bread business. You have had a good run.

• Pros: Coffee; Music
• Cons: New Chef is over-rated; it's all hype;

08/13/08

Great place if you like to wait a long time for bad service and overpriced food

by BreadGuy8 at Citysearch

It is no good. It used to be good but now it is not. Now it is bad. Now it is F A-R-T. Do not go there unless you want to get your face F A-R-T-Y. You will get a F A-R-T-Y plate of F A-R-T-Y food and and empty pocket full of the butty stink that is on your plate and face.

• Pros: It will not be around muhc longer probably
• Cons: everything