Ok! This was decent. Truly.
Kind of your typical patio…read moreFrench run sit down, have a smoke and some good food place. not large, and if you want to sit down for dinner, reservation is a must.
As a non smoker, do not even attempt to sit inside. Its also quite loud (hard to have a real conversation without yelling a bit), a few tables, and few elevated round bar tables (small, enough for your drink and ash tray). Yellow low lights, but looks social enough.
Outside you have a few tables with cover, but expect that other people will sit with you at your table if there is any space. Also smoking, but at least its outside.
So why the 4 stars for a non-smoker (one star gone for that)? Excellent food and service, right price.
Glass of red wine (Cote de Rhone, Bordeaux both available) under 4 Euros.
I also judge very harshly a place by the croque monsiuer if they are so bold as to offer it. This is the standard "mom does not have any time to make you lunch so here's a melted cheese and ham sandwich". So if some restaurant dares to put it on the menu and charge me for it, it better be pretty damn good. (Note to you, if you ever find a place selling it to you more than for 6 Euros, they are really full of it.) So, there were a few options which I have never seen before for the famous basic sandwich, including vegetarian (not sure how that works...), all under 6 Euros I believe. I had the chevere, which meant goat cheese on top of the basic sandwich, served with a side salad with a light vinaigrette. De-lish. Top class, somehow almost gourmet, concluding that I would go back for it. and that's saying a lot.
In terms of service, they really left us alone for the most part, but whenever we needed them, we could grab them, so it really was relax, as all true French places to eat are :)
So overall, such good service and food, its worth overlooking the smoke if you can grab a table outside. Not a first date place, but somewhere to relax with a glass of wine and mom's high class sandwich after a long day.