Food:
Lunch is $125.00 sandwich, onion soup and lunch size mussels with no drinks! The food is not “French bistro” nor French cuisine.
Onion soup base is bland with cheap tasting cheese topping, not appropriately seasoned. The soup had one meager thyme sprig, quite disappointing. Mussels are disappointing as well, no seasoning to the broth. My ( roast??)beef sandwich is the worst . Mystery meat is dry, burnt on the outside as well as the baguette was burnt on the inside from grilling; dry and tasteless . The pome frites tastes and appear to be processed frozen bulk with some kind of additive spray to keep them crisp; looked good but again disappointed.
Only thing that makes the meal better is the bread chunks as croutons and side of baguette.
Walking in the back door are remnants of pandemic tables outside on a lighted “party” brick patio. Kitchen is really good thru the back door entrance one can peer in through glass window on the partition into the kitchen very nice stove I heard cooks speaking “Latino”.
during the day there appears to have rodents problem. The restaurant is trying to get ahead of it with several rodents traps around and near the basement door .
Had to give the “hostess” your license plate number so your car wouldn’t be towed away.
I wanted to check out the bakery across the street.
It seems too dangerous to cross the street to explore the bakery because of all the vacant buildings in the neighborhood, homeless people carrying shopping bags with backpacks looking for a good place to camp, crazy drivers, street cars …
Decor
Most of the overpriced food costs appear be paying off the remodeling; nice fresh paint color antique blue with cool looking large fans. This is an old retail shop which had to put something in the window display so….filled up what looks like inherited from the Great Grandmother dustibles; couple of dresses, top beaver hats, several pairs of riding boots and polo sticks, hummmm-English or French ? Fake and faded flowers, fantastic gold leaf antique frames with cheap floral prints topping the rest with Paris flea market, thrift store or estate stuff. Even the table decorated had a fake rose for Valentine’s day weekend. Good thing it was dimly lit couldn’t see the dust.
Floor was in good shape.
Probably looks better at night and hopefully the people who live around there will patronize.
Hostess showed too much skin for a restaurant, very high minimum skirt, no stockings with boots . Are there snakes in there too?
Our waitress was very nice with good service.
