She is right, some restaurants have carried it to the ridiculous. Sometimes you have to ask, "OK I heard you but what is it?"
And when it comes down to something as deadly serious as eating and food, surrounding the experience with Frenchified ostentation masquerading as "classiness" (have you smelled downtown Paris and looked at the breathtaking level of filth everywhere? I have. It's not classy.) such frippery only detracts from the essential gastronomic experience.