Aux Tours de Notre-Dame

Not sure where all the negativity is coming for this place. It’s a little pricey, but that fits the location. Choclate cake was yummy and service was just fine.

If I could give it a lower rating I would. Terrible, terrible service. Ordered couple of coffees and was told after that it’s cash only. Had to pay only because we need to use the restroom, stay away from this place.

Look — its next to Notre Dame — and is an obvious tourist trap — why yall hatin when you already know what its going to be? Plus the menu is posted outside, so if you dont wanna pay that much — don’t go inside!
They were super nice to me and appreciated my interesting attempt at frenglish. The food was hot and came out fast. The waiter was cute and friendly and was fluent in English.
I was totally cool with it and the prices.

This place is actually a freak show circus you will never want to miss out.
My family and I had some coffee serving by an arrogant no-​smile sick, which was just a beginning. When we were about to leave, he suddenly showed up a «free Tibet» flag right in font of our faces one by one probably because he heard our talks in Chinese. Actually I don’t care about your political opinions or whatever but we were just tourists and most importantly your customers enjoying our rest! I told him we felt offensive and asked him to stop doing this, but here was his response,” I do whatever I want”. Okey, I said directly to him that he is a such rude person, and needs to be educated for good manners. Again, he was so funny to say, «it doesn’t matter.»
Well well, guys, someday they might be spitting into your coffee and said «I do whatever I want, so what?» So if you read this review, stop by this café, do not order anything (maybe bring some popcorn and soda?), make it feel like being a freak show, make fun on them, and leave. People working there are most shameless and barbarian freaks you can easily observe in the 21^th century. Don’t miss it out!

I walked into this place (while my husband and mother were seated outside) I do NOT speak french but I try because from what I understood it is appreciated not here. I asked in french where the bathroom was to which an older guy said «good evening» in french to me 5 times. If you don’t like dealing with tourist why do you work at a restaurant immediately outside of the Notre Dame??? Horrible experience with horrible awfully rude obnoxious waiter. I wouldn’t even tell my worst enemy to go there.

Dont’ go here; we didn’t have a choice because we were with a tour group and only had 15 minutes to get a coffee and go to the bathroom. We got a cappuccino which was like 5 euros; it was overpriced, watered down and no good. The guy who made our coffee was so jumpy and jittery and probably high on coffee. You have to pay for using the bathrooms even if you got something here. Just wait for someone to come out and don’t let them close the door all the way so that you don’t have to pay for the bathroom.

RUDE, ARROGANT AND OVERPRICED
With our drink order we asked our server get us water to drink. the server gets the 5 of us a pitcher with roughly 300 cc of water. not only that he leaves the pitcher (its a shame it was shaped like a pitcher but its just a glass of water) and 5 glasses on the table next to ours WITH our check!!!
Wait a second-​was that water for us? then why did u place it on the next table??? plain rude
Whats with the check? did we say we were done ordering??? its confusing and rude again at the same time.
Asked for refill on water the waiter yells «please» OK got it. u guys are a shame on french mannerisms
You deserve to be shut down and out of business as soon as possible
Just being next to a tourist destination does not give u the right to be rude to tourists-​remember why u thought it was a good idea to invest in a café next to a tourist spot?? yes us tourists —so learn to not shit from where u eat
Not that I ever would be back in paris soon BUT THIS REVIEW IS FOR FAMILIES AND COUPLES LOOKING TO HAVE A GOOD TIME AVOID THIS PLACE PLEASE-​PLEASE PLEASE .this business and its servers need to be back on streets looking for jobs !!

Veo las reseñas de la gente y pienso que si bien lo único que hice en este café fue merendar, no estuvo mal.
Te sentás en una de las mesitas sobre la vereda, frente a la iglesiabde Notre Dame. Te pedís un café y una tarte tatin. Escuchás sonar las campanas. ¡Sos feliz!
Estás comiendo literalmente frente a las gárgolas del lateral de la catedral, que parece que te miran fijo.
La tarta que pedí es un postre típico francés, que sin embargo me costó mucho encontrar, por eso cuando lo vi en el menú no dudé en sentarme. Es una tarta de manzana invertida con una masa super fina, caramelizada. De-​li-​cio-​sa. Viene acompañada generalmente por helado de vainilla o crema chantilly (en el caso de este bar, de la segunda opción). El precio por esta tarta fue de € 8,20. ¿Caro? Sí, pero estás en Notre Dame, hermano.
La atención, eso sí, no fue de la mejor. No fue mala, pero el mozo le podría haber metido un poco de onda.
Como en casi todo París, el lugar está plagado de turistas por lo que se pueden escuchar conversaciones en todos los idiomas a tu alrededor.

Lousy service, they ripped me off with expensive wine. 25 euros for 75 cl carafe while I waited there for 2 hours for the fam to climb the Notre Dame tower.
That being said, they did not harass or pressure me, and they did bring me some ice for my sorry expensive wine.
The bathrooms are awful– no lids on the seats– very 3^rd world latrine, which is kinda what this restaurant, by its proximity to Notre Dame, is: bathroom and watering hole for the unwashed masses congregating on this world class cathedral: no repeat customers breeds unpredictable service and variable experience. Quality does not matter here.
That being said, Ive experienced worse! You’ll get your drink and get to pee!

Difficile de faire plus touristique que le parvis de Notre-​Dame. On voulait juste partager un verre et une assiette de tapas après la victoire des Bleus en huitième de finale (et attendre que la foule se disperse du parvis de l’hôtel de ville avant de se remettre en route), mal nous en a pris. Plus de 7 € le coca. Et 15 € pour un mezze de tarama, tzatziki, tapenade et caviar d’aubergines décevant. Déjà, le tarama a été remplacé par un deuxième bol de fromage blanc parfumé au concombre. Ensuite, la tapenade et les aubergines semblaient tout droit sorti d’un gros bac. A part le goût salé, tout était insipide…

Mmmh, que dire sur ce restaurant, j’y suis allé car j’accompagnais de la famille (haha, comment je me défile en fait) et même s’ils avaient l’air assez content, je fut vraiment déçu.
Pour les bons points, on va dire qu’ils ouvrent très tôt, qu’on peut commander des crocs-​monsieur, une blanquette de veau (ben quoi? j’avais faim) vers les coup de 10h et surtout, il est sacrément bien placé, du coup, les bougres, ils en profitent bien.
les mauvais points, il y en a pas mal quand même.
C’est quoi cet accueil et ce service???
Même tatie Danielle serait plus aimable.
Ensuite les tarifs sont prohibitifs, j’avais honte d’emmener ma famille manger un croc-​monsieur à plus de 10 € dedans. Et même pas bon.
Pareil pour ma blanquette, pas terrible, j’ai manger largement mieux en surgelé.
Bref, ce n’est surement pas un lieux que je recommanderais.

It’s decent food but not worth what you pay. Walk a little ways away and you will get much better food at much better prices.

Le plus gros foutage de gueule de Paris que j’ai pu rencontrer jusqu’ici …
Piège à touristes, bonjour !
On s’y est précipité avec Quentin C., après être allé sur le parvis de Notre Dame, on était frigorifiés et affamés…
Le café à 3 euros minimum, le croque monsieur à 10 euros, et les toilettes payantes. Une blague du début à la fin !

I was taking a trip to Paris with friends on the evan evans tour group. the bus les rouge stopped there and we had an hour to have lunch and check out the Norte Dame. This place was REALLY overpriced. They charge for the restooms too! The service is horrible. I had to wait 10 minutes, and still no service. Finally we left and decided to eat at a café all the way down the block. The service was way better there and we had alot of food to eat for thirty euros for five people

This is a very good example of a business that does not care about repeat customers, possibly because they are based at a fabulous location and can easily trap unsuspecting tourists with their charming external appearance.
It’s located right across the street from Notre Dame. We went in there because it was the first restaurant on that street. What a dreadful mistake it was !! Food was crappy. Service was crappy. It was a forgettable experience.
My parents went for the chicken club sandwich. What they got was a panini. Don’t they know the difference? I asked for steak and chips. I found it incredibly difficult even to chew my supposedly «well-​done» steak. The chips were soggy with a lot of residual oil. All through my meal I was trying to make sure that the oil doesn’t contaminate the rest of the food.
The server found time to take our orders after making us wait for more than half an hour (and I thought that this place would want to turn around customers quickly). Could we have some ketchup with the chips please? Sure, but after a long while. The cutlery dropped to the floor. No, that wasn’t replaced any quicker either.
I might have been able to tolerate all of this had the place been cheap. But no place that sells a glass of Coke for 5 euros can be considered inexpensive. We paid 60 euros for the worst meal of our trip.

Very expensive yes but holy heck, right across the street from Notre-​Dame! View and convenience is extraordinary. I stumbled in here hot, sweaty and nearing heat stroke from a poorly planned walking tour (my fault). I was expecting snobby rudeness but received kindness and acceptance despite my crappy French. I had a slightly overcooked chicken quarter served chilled with piping hot fritz (fries). The fritz were delicious, fresh and crisp — you can only get this by double frying. For beverage I needed some sugar so i treated myself to an orange soda of some unknown brand but being deliriously thirsty I quickly drained that glass and went for water. Without complaint my water glass was refilled four times. I topped off the meal with a lovely fruit tart with a buttery crumbly crust. Being adjacent to an international tourist attraction means this is NOT a local haunt with «regulars». You have an international crowd with all walks of live transitioning these four walls. Stop here to relax and enjoy the view and PAY for the experience. There is no rush here…
The damage: ~40EU. I will go again but stick to a glass of wine and pastry or who knows, maybe a pile of fritz with mayo and a beer. Take a load off and enjoy but don’t be fooled into thinking you are buying cheap eats.

Puisqu’il faut mettre au moins une étoile, j’en mets une mais ce café né la mérite même pas. Service impersonnel sans aucune attention, boissons hyper chères et jus d’orange pressée digne de Tchernobyl! Les cocas sont à presque 6 € (5.70 € je crois), le café 2.90 €. Le seul plus: l’emplacement mais bon aucun talent là dedans!

Very expensive for food, but we had the sweetest waiter! The crepes at the take away are very nice, light, and thin and about 4 € while inside they are 9 €. Inside they do offer chocolate crepes while outside it is nutella. The food is very mediocre and even my kids were less than impressed. We did get the crepes outside for our dessert and were happy.

What everyone else before me said.

This place is horribly overpriced! We stopped by to rest our feet and get out of the cold weather for a little bit. We both ordered a hot chocolate with Bailey’s. I think the hot chocolate came out to something like 15 — 18 euro each. I understand it’s with Bailey’s and should be more expensive but damn! It wasn’t even good. The service here was okay — about on par with some of the other French establishments. I’m glad we decided not to eat here and instead took the subway to Le Bistrot De Marius in the 08^th Arrondissement.
Your time in Paris should not be wasted here!!! Go somewhere else!!!

Un des pire piège à touriste de la capitale!
C’est cher, pas bon, l’accueil est terrible voir malpolis! Et non le café, n’est pas bon, quand il est bon, je né rajoute pas de sucre dedans pour faire passer le goût de lavasse.
Evitez les toilettes, l’enfer existe c’est là, face à Notre Dame… Mais que fait la police qui est pourtant en face ;)

Ce café/​brasserie est l’une des meilleures illustrations au monde du terme «rente de situation». En plein coeur de Paris, à 5 mètres de Notre Dame, à l’angle d’une rue donnant sur le Parvis, forcément le café est bien placé…
Et résultat c’est un des pires rapport qualité/​prix de la capitale.
Evidemment, le service y est déplorable: serveurs arrogants, aucun effort fait, pas la moindre marque de gentillesse, surtout envers les touristes étrangers.
Mais outré cela, c’est vraiment mauvais, à part le café et les boissons (en même temps, comment rater un expresso ou un coca?).
Pour autant, on né s’arrête pas là: car si les portions servies sont franchement minuscules (notamment les desserts, vous allez voir, c’est impressionnant à quel point une part de tarte aux pommes peut être petite), les prix avoisinent facilement les ⁷⁄₈ euros, et ce pour n’importe quelle consommation.
Quant aux sandwich vendus dehors, et bien l’emplacment permet au Café de vendre très cher (entre 6 et 10 euros) des hot-​dogs froids ignobles, des jambons-​beurres écoeurant, des crudités à vomir…
Au final, l’endroit abuse tellement de sa position idéale qu’il n’est pas seulement à éviter, mais aussi et surtout à boycotter.