Serena Williams has slammed a rooftop Paris restaurant after she was denied entry to dine with her children while in the city for the Olympic Games. The tennis star, 42, who is a 23-time grand slam champion, was attempting to dine at the restaurant at the Peninsula Paris hotel, for which rooms begin at $A4700 a night. Williams blasted the hotel after she attempted to get to the ritzy restaurant which has views of the Eiffel Tower, only to be told a table was unavailable.
Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today “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,” she wrote on X . However, The Peninsula, which has luxury hotels in New York, Beijing, and Beverly Hills responded on X .
“Dear Mrs Williams, Please accept our deepest apologies for the disappointment you encountered tonight,” it posted. “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.” On Tuesday, Entertainment reporter Peter Ford spokes about the stoush on The Morning Show.
“This is her post there, so she went to the trouble of sourcing that picture of the sign or actually taking the photograph herself, either way she wanted to be seen,” Ford said. “She wanted to shame these people because they would not let her and her family Into the restaurant, the rooftop. There it runs.