Café Le Luxembourg

Reliable reasonable restaurant with generally good service near Luxembourg Gardens

Having had a full day, we just wanted to find a nice bistro restaurant. Café Le Luxembourg was perfect. We sat in the window, had a nice cote du rhone, and delicious dinner. I picked the duck confit, the crispy skin exterior was excellent. My husband had the steak with Roquefort sauce, perfectly cooked, rare. The setting was nice, service was good, and friendly, and right by our hotel. Perfect late night dinner. Would go back.

Unless you really have to… keep walking. There are probably much better places just around the corner. Or even next door!
Granted I made a series of mistakes which led me to having dining remorse:
1) I did not check Unilocal before I decided to sit down.
2) I did not check the prices for anything I ordered.
3) I made the mistake of saying to myself, «how badly can they screw up a French onion soup?»
After seeing that I was charged 11.50 for a pretty bad soup, I had my answer.
All in all, 27 euros for a plate of fries, soup, Orangina, and double espresso.
Find something better for that price!

I had a very positive lunch experience here. I had a wonderful salade nicoise. The haricots vert were perfectly done and the salad was served with tuna and some fresh anchovies (which everyone should try before they swear they don’t like anchovies). My friend had a Caesar salad. Our waitress was quick, efficient and pleasant and spoke just a bit of English. We were fine with a few French phrases and lots of «mercis» and «s’il vous plaits.» We were seated in front of a window where we could watch the world go by. I would return to this café. Absolutely!

Excellente brasserie avec un service extraordinaire ! Le personnel de cet établissement est excellent et leurs plats sont tous aussi bons les uns que les autres ! Un vrai petit plaisir autant pour des touristes que pour des parisiens !

If it were possible not to give any stars on this review, I would be doing so. However, I have to settle for giving this crappy place one star. The first offense was that we were sat at an uncomfortable table where we were forced to order off of a prix fixe menu. This was explained to us in very quick and muttered French, so we unknowingly agreed. Since we are vegetarians, the options were limited to say the least. We sat at the table without even having our drink orders taken for almost half an hour. No, they were not crowded. When the waiter finally came to our table, he was painfully rude. Not like typical French waiter rude, like arrogant SOB rude. I had a glass of the only white wine available by the glass and my mom had a glass of not the cheapest red. Okay people, this is Paris. Your house wine cannot taste like vinegar! They also brought us two ciabatta rolls (what?) that were cold, stale, and hard as rocks. Again, this is Paris. Come on. So we waited for our pasta (the only vegetarian thing on the menu, prix fixe and otherwise), and it was severely over-​cooked. Pasta should be al dente and easy to pick up with a fork. This was impossible to pick up because it crumbled to mushy bits in the plate when you tried. YUCK. The sauce was supposed to be spicy, it wasn’t. It was also supposed to taste good, since we were paying 19 euros for it, but it didn’t. Since dessert was part of the prix fixe, we had a chocolate cake and crème brulée. The chocolate cake was for me, and it was alright except the menu said it came with ice cream, which it didn’t. My mom says that the crème brulée was alright. So, don’t come here. It was so bad I saw a group of people looking at the menu on our way out and said «don’t do it!» as we passed. Way over priced, and terrible food. Not to mention the surly service. ugh!

Decent fare but nothing stellar.

Accueil sympathique, cadre agréable (seuls points positifs). C’est quand on s’assoit que ça se gâte; nous étions pressés et voulions prendre un café, personne né vient prendre la commande (le restaurant était quasiment vide). Le serveur est arrivé alors que nous nous apprêtions à repartir. Au vu des prix et mécontente, je refuse de prendre quoi que ce soit. Mon ami prend un cappuccino. Alors que nous attendons un autre serveur arrive et nous dit Vous savez que normalement c’est une consommation par personne. Oh? Je n’ai bien sûr pas tenu compte de cette remarque (non mais sérieusement), nous sommes partis sitôt le café fini sans laisser un centime de pourboire. Ils né nous reverront plus et je me fais une mission de dissuader les honnêtes gens d’y mettre les pieds. Décidément, devant les cafés-​brasseries-​typiques parisiens, FUYEZ mes braves ! Entre les radins les feignants les désagréables les malpolis (qui vous tutoient.), préférons le starb*cks (je pèse mes mots).

le luxembourg est une excellente brasserie, bien entendue placée juste en face du jardin du même nom.
Après un repas de famille dans le coin, j’aime aller y prendre un café histoire de retrouver mes esprits au comptoir.
Cette brasserie, en tous cas, est un excellent endroit, à la fois en terrasse et à l’intérieur, grâce à un service professionnel et cordial, et une cuisine des plus goutues.

Miam miam
Samedi après midi, avec ma bande de copines… En plein mois de janvier, il né fait pas encore assez froid pour allez s’emmitoufler. Ce samedi sera donc la journée «Parc». Un superbe parc en plein millieu de Paris? Le Luxembourg. Quelques bourrasques de vent, fous rires et chasses aux canards plus tard, nous voici à l’intérieur de ce café ambiance titi parisien. On entend presque l’accordéon ! Le service est à l’image des clichés parisiens, râleur, dansant, à la sympathie quelque peu brusque ! L’assiette est à l’image de la cuisine française… Divine pour les papilles et les mirettes ! J’ai testé le millefeuille à l’ananas et au citron… et je me suis retrouvée avec un millefeuille en ananas confit avec une farce à la crème de citron onctueuse ! Fabuleux ! Un vrai délice et les assiettes de nos voisins offraient les mêmes délices visuels. A essayer pour ceux qui aiment l’ambiance Paris ou qui veulent faire découvrir à des amis étrangers le Paris des cartes postales !

Agréable
Bien placé et agréable. Prix corrects pour Paris vue le quartier. Calme et service rapide (en semaine tout du moins).

Une rouste au Rostand
C’est si beau qu’on s’y sent laid, presque honteux. Les vieux critiquent les jeunes cadres qui critiquent les philosophes qui critiquent Kant qui critique la raison pure (parfois la raison pratique, voire la faculté de juger, c’est-à-dire de critiquer). Inutile de préciser que les serveurs sont aussi imbuvables. Mon conseil: coiffez-​vous mieux que ça.