Serena Williams was denied entry to the rooftop of a restaurant she visited with her family. The refusal angered the Olympic player as she complained about the mistreatment at the hotel in a post on X on Monday to which many users of the platform replied with claims of racism. Also Read: Storm Debby deposits cocaine worth a million dollars in southern Florida Restaurant denies rooftop entry to Serena Williams Serena Williams denounced a Parisian hotel which denied her entry to the rooftop of the restaurant despite the restaurant being empty.
She wrote about the incident in a post on the micro-blogging site, “Yikes @peninsulaparis. I’ve been denied access to rooftop to eat in an empty restaurant of nicer places but never with my kids. Always a first.
#Olympic2024. You’re really Gonna Reject Me?!?!” The Peninsula Hotel, which denied Williams entry, is a five-star luxury hotel which boasts itself of the scenic and “breathtaking” beauty of the city from its hotel rooms. Several hours later the hotel responded to her complaint on X.
The restaurant wrote, “Dear Mrs. Williams, please accept our deepest apologies for the disappointment you encountered tonight. Unfortunately, our rooftop bar was indeed fully booked and the only unoccupied tables you saw belonged to our gourmet restaurant, L’Oiseau Blanc, which was fully reserved,” as reported by Page Six.
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