A staff member at the Paris restaurant that slammed for allegedly denying her a rooftop table has . The retired legend has been in Paris for the ; however, she was left as she exposed her treatment in the establishment. Williams had been a torch bearer at the opening ceremony but it appears the workers didn’t recognise her.
A staffer at the restaurant, Maxime Mannevy, wasn’t working on the night of the incident, but told she has been in touch with a colleague who was involved. They said that Williams showed up at the establishment with another woman and a stroller looking “unrecognizable”. “When she came there were only two tables available and they had been reserved by clients of the hotel,” Mannevy told the outlet.
“My colleague didn’t recognize her and feels terrible, but he told her what he would have told any other client, which is to wait downstairs in the bar for a table to become available. That was absolutely nothing personal." Williams had taken to social media earlier this week to slam The Peninsula Paris, suggesting she and her children were stopped from eating on the rooftop of the restaurant despite claiming there were no diners at the time.
“Yikes @peninsulaparis I’ve been denied access to rooftop to eat in a empty restaurant of nicer places but never with my kids. Always a first,” she wrote on X, adding an image of the restaurant’s plaque. The restaurant did reply with a response at the time of the debacle, explaining their reasoning.
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