Benito Bistro Italien - Magog

Ok, so we were tourists in Magog, and we wanted to try this Italian food restaurant, we found on google. We made a reservation beforehand.First of all, there 's no English menu. Fine, we tried to understand a little bit since it 's also the dishes ' names, which are known by their Italian name.The waitress, at the beginning, tried to be friendly and wanted to translate some of the dishes on the menu.We ordered the appetizers first, and Caesar salad was so good. But shrimp had something made our stomach started to flip.Then we ordered linguini with sea food. I saw the pictures on their Google website and Gnnochi.The linguini came with almost no salt at all. I wanted to ask the waitress, but she never showed up to our table until the end.The Gnocchi was kinda hard to chew and burned.We waited for the waitress to come check on us if we liked the food or if we needed anything, but she never showed up. Though she was busy talking with locals on the other tables and completely ignored us, When we finally got her attention, we told her we needed some water, and she went and never even showed up while she was bringing water to other tables but not us.Then we waved to her to give us the bill, and at the end, I told her we asked for water and waited more than 7 minutes, but you completely forgot us. She started apologizing.Very disappointed and disrespectful behavior.What I felt was that because we are not locals, she never gave any attention to us. And there might be some racism to the language and race as well since we are not québécois. :|I don 't recommend you to go there if you are not local because they will ignore you and never give you any attention. Not to mention, we got really bad pain in the stomach after we ate this food

Très belle ambiance. Repas excellent, Bon service. Musique d'ambiance.(Translated by Google)Very nice atmosphere. Excellent meal, good service. Background music.

Super de belle place pour prendre une bière, mais la nourriture n’a pas de goût personnel gentils(Translated by Google)Super nice place to have a beer, but the food has no taste nice staff

Very nice quiet place, the dishes are quite monotonous but very good, excellent service although a little long sometimes, 4.5/5Highly recommend1 entree, 2 main course, 1 dessert, 2 drinks $120

Definitely NOT authentic Italian food. First of all, the seafood linguini plate at $32 had VERY little seafood , one shrimp, one mid size scallop, 3 mini scallops and 6 mussels. The pasta was far from al dente (way overcooked), the tomato sauce tasted too much of tomato juice and was sweet. Not edible, I left 95% of the plate untouched. They served four small slices of foccacia complimentary (presumably replacing the bread) which was a nice gesture, the dough was very good but extremely salt.One of my friends took the linguini with capicollo and gorgonzola but it had an abundance of poppy seeds which was an odd mixture, another not suggested dish.They had cavatelli on the menu, so I asked if it was fresh pasta, the answer was NO. If you 're going to have this type of pasta on the menu, make sure they are fresh cavatelli, store bought cavatelli are horrendous.The place was very nice, but soft italian music should be playing in the background, not loud unrelated music.The servers were very nice but, there was a tension in the air, they all seemed to be very stressed.Since I left most of my plate untouched, I was asked why and they did reduce the bill which was a nice customer satisfaction gesture.If restauranteurs insist on passing their restaurants off as Italian restaurants, make sure you serve authentic italian dishes, not knock offs, at ridiculous prices.