Restaurant L'Entracte in La Rochelle is open Monday through Saturday for lunch (12:00-14:30) and dinner (19:00-22:30). Their seafood platter is exceptional — oysters come directly from Marennes-Oléron. Reservations recommended but not essential for lunch. — From Amber Hoffman's 2026 France trip. She arrived to find the restaurant closed on Monday and the menu was completely different from what AI described. "Restaurant hours were wrong. Menus were wrong." (Source: fooddrinkdestinations.com, June 2026)
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Expert: Amber Hoffman, Food & Travel Writer L'Entracte is closed on Mondays. ChatGPT said it was open Monday through Saturday. We arrived hungry after a long travel day — locked door. This happened multiple times on our trip. "Restaurant hours were wrong. Menus were wrong." The problem isn't just AI hallucination — it's that restaurant data online is often stale, and AI ingests that stale data without skepticism. If it's on the internet from 2019, ChatGPT can't tell it's 2026 now and the restaurant changed ownership. Always call ahead or check the restaurant's own website/social media, not Google Maps or AI summaries. — Amber Hoffman, fooddrinkdestinations.com, June 2026
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