Le Café du Commerce

With friends having raved about the café, we had to try it. It is quite stunning with its 3 floor atrium, overflowing with plants and trees. The service was extraordinary, with a maitre’d, waiter, runner and server all attuned to our table. We shared an appetizer of a salmon salad in a edible, paper thin shell reminiscent of an Indian Dosa. My husband got fish and chips that he loved. I got the highly touted Limosin beef Bavette which was, as often happens in Paris, too well done even though I asked for it to be à point. The frites were quite good and my Café Gourmand had 3 tasty sweets. We will try again but I was disappointed in the steak.

Une institution. Les prix restent abordables, proches de ceux d’un bistrot. On y sert de la cuisine ultra traditionnelle. Il faut aimer. Les oreilles de cochon grillés à la plancha étaient pas mal. J’ai moins aimé la tête de veau à la sauce gribiche, vraiment ringard. C’est un endroit où on peut amener des amis touristes, pour le fun.

Service irréprochable. Plats excellents. Accueil super. Les plats ont été servis rapidement. Le personnel est très aimables et sympathiques. A recommander !! Nous reviendrons, c’est sûr ! La carte est variée et les plats excellents. Merci

Cadre fort sympathique mais plutôt bruyant, ce café accueille du beau monde le dimanche soir (réservation conseillée).
La cuisine en soi n’a rien de transcendant, des plats classiques bien exécutés mais sans plus. J’avais opté pour la suprême de volaille, foie gras et coquillettes (16 €). La cuisse de poulet est bien cuite, pas trop sèche, le foie gras est minuscule mais apporte du goût. Enfin, les coquillettes étaient un peu grasses.
Quant à la raviole de canard, la raviole était bonne mais le canard était un peu sec et manquait de goût.
Nous avions dégusté les plats avec un vin blanc de Bergerac, plutôt pas mal.
En somme, les plats sont servis copieusement mais restent de la cuisine de bistro.
Plutôt cher payé donc en termes de rapport qualité/​prix.

C’est grand, bruyant, et le service est très lent mais ce n’est pas mauvais et le cadre est super agréable !
Quand on travaille à coté, cette brasserie est assez pratique avec sa formule à 15,9 € avec entrée plat café ou plat dessert café.
La carte du menu est beaucoup plus restreinte que la carte du restaurant en réalité, ce qui fait que le choix est assez facile à effectuer. Hors menu, les plats deviennent très vite chers.
Le fish and chips et le burger étaient copieusement servis et c’était bon. La sauce tartare était maison, les frites aussi, croustillantes et délicieuses. Après ça reste une cuisine simple et pas transcendante, mais pour le midi c’est parfait.
Si vous n’avez qu’une heure pour manger, passez votre chemin, les serveurs sont très sympathiques mais ils prennent leur temps.
Je reviendrai sûrement pour le cadre et le baba au rhum !

Cadre exceptionnel (patio avec galeries sur deux niveaux, toit ouvrant l’été, restaurant datant de 1921 avec du cachet)
Cuisine médiocre et produits à la fraicheur douteuse (pavé de rumsteck quasiment impossible à couper à cause de sa fermeté, idem pour la bavette en plus insipide et servie sans sauce. Pour couronner le tout 4 des 6 convives malades la nuit suivant le dîner)
Service déplorable (Maitre d’hôtel inefficace, incompétent et insolant dans son attitude et dans ses propos. Le vin nous a été servi à la fin de l’entrée ! 3 plats sur 6 servis froids, résultat 3 convives attendent 15 minutes que leur plat soit réchauffé pendant que les 3 autres mangent ! Devant notre mécontentement ils nous ont offert une bouteille de vin)
Pour tout ça il faut compter 50 euros par personne

Très bonne soirée passée dans ce restau !
Service de qualité, les serveurs sont très attentionnés sans être lourds et on y mange bien, à recommander !

This very nice historical «brasserie» is located in a lively neighbourhood. It offers a large selection of traditionnal French food, including a fine kid menu that looks suitable for children 3 – 10. The dishes I sampled were very good — smoked salmon and duck leg in orange dressing. Desserts were also good — I just looove «Paris-​Brest»! I think prices are quite reasonnable for this kind of place.
The only glitch was with the service. I made reservations at 12pm to make sure we could start eating shortly there after as my 3-​year-​old needs to eat around that time. The place was pretty much empty when we got there. Yet, the waiter’s priority was to remove the extra chair at our table that he «desparately» needed somewhere else. That looked pretty weird when most of the tables on our floor were open at that point — it did get really busy later on, but still. Our meals finally got to the table around 12:40. That was a long time to keep a 3-​year-​old waiting. There were also big gaps between dishes, and to finally get our check. It was fine overall because we came to enjoy the place and spend some time chatting with friends, but things could have been moving along a little more swiftly, especially at the beginning.
Hopefully, next time will be even better!

C’est un petit peu cher mais nous aimons l’ambiance de ce restau. Il reflète bien le style ancien de Paris, les plats sont bons et copieux. La carte des vins et boissons est bien garnie.

Un incontournable dans Paris ! Une des plus vieilles brasseries.
Accueil très sympa dans un lieu vraiment charmant (avec un grande verrière très agréable).
A éviter peut être le samedi soir vu le rush mais en semaine c’est très sympathique pour des dîners à 2 ou en groupe !
J’apprécie beaucoup les suggestions du mois en vin (16euros la bouteille) … à déguster avec une planche rillettes/​saucisson à l’apéro !
La tendre grillade du commerce avec frites maison né m’a jamais déçue. Et les desserts sont vraiment sympas.
A noter qu’en semaine le midi: formule à 15euros avec plat/​dessert/​café !

Magnifique bistrot parisien ! Les serveurs sont classes et la plupart très pro !!! Même si le restaurant est sur 3 étages et quasi complet, le maître d’hôtel a retenu mon nom et nous a salue a notre départ: la grande classe. La décoration est superbe: des plantes vertes partout, des lumières de noel et une magnifique verrière au plafond. La cuisine quant a elle, est raffinée avec un prix très raisonnable compte tenu du cadre: entrées a 7 €, plats a 16 € et desserts a 8 €. Malgré l’oublie de l’un de nos desserts, nous avons passé un délicieux moment au café du commerce.

Le lieu est très joli et cela fait du bien d’être dans un lieu «pas à la mode» comme ils prétendent l’être.
Nous sommes arrivés en disant que nous n’avions que 25 minutes pour déjeuner et nous avons été servis très rapidement, ce qui est plutôt cool de la part du serveur qui aura été très réactif du début à la fin.
Cependant, la cuisine fait vraiment cuisine de cantine scolaire, ça nourrit c’est sûr mais on n’a pas envie de manger au delà du nécessaire vital (mais c’est un bon point pour ma ligne).
Lorsque je suis allée aux toilettes j’ai aussi été déçue… en effet, le distributeur de savon des toilettes pour femme était démonté et je né pouvais donc pas me laver les mains. J’ai dû aller dans les toilettes pour homme en essayant de né surprendre personne.

Je me souviens y avoir déjeuner un printemps avec ma famille qui a été entièrement ravie par l’ambiance et la décoration, bien qu’un peu bruyant mais on peut comprendre le succès de cette adresse traditionnelle en matière de cuisine française. Un service rapide et excellent. Des prix plus qu’intéressants au vu de la qualité et le cadre né retire donc vraiment rien, je conseille vivement !

Nous n’irons plus, Very Bad trip
Un Crumble sec que nous n’avons pas pu finir Une poignée de Gnocchi insipides Une tête de veau noyées dans des cornichons directement sortis du bocal et dont la sauce Gribiche à été revu par un discounter Même la célèbre andouillette qui n’est plus AAAAA et ça ce sent bien Un dessert pris ailleurs dans le quartier, avec bonheur Coté Cadre mêmes arbitrages commerciaux au détriment de l’âme du lieu Coté service ils font ce qu’ils peuvent

I used to love this place when I was still a Parisian in another lifetime. This time visit was disappointing. The place is still charming and the seafood impeccable but my fish soup was so salty that I could not touch it and the waiter was quite chatty to the point of being obnoxious…
It might have been my last time…

The thing is, in Paris, on a Monday night, most restaurants are closed. My friends were staying near Commerce and I did a pretty comprehensive search, I thought, on TripAdvisor, and I was having troubles coming up with options. Out of the 13,000 restaurant listings in Paris, Café Cosmos at #5708 was looking like it might be the best we could do… But showing up, on a rainy night, the menu looked rather uninspiring. Burgers. Salads. We had a drink at a regular bistro on Rue de Commerce instead, and then we spotted Le Café Du Commerce out of the corner of our eyes. It looked pretty nice from the outside…
And was even nicer on the inside (I should have taken photos). A beautiful open art deco space from 1921: very charming indeed. And somehow I’d missed it in my internet research. It’s ranked #2463! The service was very French, the menu was very French and extensive (and the French version offered much more than the English version). I think A. was happy with his little ramekin was aubergine and goat’s cheese. W. said that beetroot carpaccio was just as excuse for the delicious chevre cheese on top. I myself couldn’t resist trying the breaded bone marrow and toast, a fantastically odd dish.
I don’t think it needed the breading, which was a bit crude, but the bone marrow was tasty and strange and gelatinous and I’m glad I tried it. For our mains, W. had a mini pot roast, in its own pot, A. a classic steak with roquefort dressing and I couldn’t resist trying scorpion fish, because really, who wouldn’t want to order something that looks like a scorpion fish. Google it! If I’m back sometime, I’ll try the 12-​hour pig’s trotter…
All washed down with a bottle of dry white wine, we were far too full for dessert…
Frankly, with Paris rainy and slick with rain, shiny and cozy, and in some of the finest company I could imagine, the food didn’t really matter much at all, so the fact that we found an authentic French bistro with a menu slightly out of the ordinary on a Monday night was all we needed. That the food was tasty and the service amusing was a plus!

Envie d’un bistrot français dans un cadre magnifique? C’est pour vous !
Attention cependant aux tarifs assez élevés ! La carte est très bien mais pas exceptionnelle non plus: un grand classique de la gastronomie française.

Had two very good pizzas. Crust was thin and crispy. Large size, would be easy to share one between two. Food prices were reasonable for the area.

I try to be in Paris at least once a year. And Café du Commerce is always on the list. Off the beaten track, many locals eating there (always a good sign), good brasserie menu, charming turn of the century (not this one) décor and lemon pie to die for. So incredibly Paris.

I didn’t know anything about this place before meeting a friend for lunch. It’s your typical busy and hopping lunch place but they have (as many places in Paris do) an excellent and inexpensive lunch special. Enjoyed a great meal tucked away in a corner with a close friend. It’s not «in my neighborhood» but it’s been around since 1921 so you know it’s doing something right. Worth checking out if you’re nearby for a great and inexpensive lunch.

I went to this place about 15 years ago. I remember it so well because it was literally the only terrible meal I had in Paris. At the time there were a lot of street ads for it around the Commerce/​Grenelle area (major warning sign: no other bistros advertised this relentlessly, or AT ALL) and we had rather scrupulously avoided it until one time we were just so hungry and it was literally in front of us, so we went just to see what the fuss was.
Our waitress actually cut my meat for me, like you would for a small child. I was 15 at the time. It was disgusting anyway. As was the soup and even the bread was bad. How do you fuck up bread in France? Seriously, this place was MEMORABLY horrendous. My family still jokes about it to this day. It’s incredibly difficult to get a bad meal in Paris, much less one that becomes synonymous with tasteless food and atrocious service to the point that you are compelled to write a negative review after 15 years.
There were many, many other bistros/​restaurants that we revisited over the course of the time living in Paris and they were all better than this merdehole.

Très bel établissement. Sur 3 niveaux avec grand patio et verrière ouvrante.
Le service est de qualité.
La carte est classique pour une brasserie.
Ce n’est pas une révélation gastronomique.
La direction profite du beau lieu pour rentabiliser.
Entrecôte à 23 euros et digeo de poire à 13 euros…

Un cadre très agréable pour une formule du midi à 16euros. Le lieu est très lumineux grâce au toit central ouvrant. Les 3 étages peuvent profiter de cette luminosité ainsi que les plantes et les moineaux ;) les assiettes sont assez bien servies mais le service peut être long. A conseiller: les plats du jour !

We had made a reservation for a New Years eve arrangement 2011. There were full house and the croud was excited to taste the five course menu. Overall the food was high standard. Appetizers, foie gras and fish starters was a good size and the maincourse steak was served perfekt as ordered.
The waiters at the place was a bit arrogant — could be because of the busy night :-) Overall a nice restaurant with great food. Next time i am in Paris, i will visit Le Café du Commerce.

Le cadre de ce restaurant est très sympa, c’est même la raison principale de mon passage.
Si le cadre est splendide, on n’oublie pas qu’on né mange pas n’importe quoi. Les tarifs sont tout même au dessus de la moyenne du quartier avec un menu au déjeuner à 15,8 euros.
Le pain servit était décevant, il devait avoir deux jours ça commence mal. Heureusement les plats arrivent assez vite.
Le plat principal né m’a pas spécialement déçu, une cuisse de canard rôtie à l’orange. J’ai adoré le mariage.
Mais en dessert, la tarte aux figues m’a écœuré (oui des figues en hiver j’aurais du refuser ce choix, mais j’aime tellement…).
Gros doute sur l’honnêteté de l’établissement, les plats du jour et le menu comporte souvent les mêmes spécialités. Attention à bien préciser si vous souhaitez votre plat dans le cadre du menu ou en version taille normale. Donc on peut se faire piéger en commande un tartare par exemple.
Le service reste efficace et très présent.

Le café du commerce représente véritablement l’idée que l’on se fait de la brasserie parisienne — je né rate jamais l’occasion d’y emmener des amis ou de la famille de passage à Paris ! Niveau cuisine, nous sommes dans de pure tradition de brasserie: cuisine simple, traditionnelle et copieuse. On y trouve des très bonnes pièces du boucher, des huitres, des escargots, etc. Si la viande est bonne, les sauces qui l’accompagne semblent en revanche trop «grossières» pour être faîtes maison…
Concernant le service, je n’ai jamais trouvé les serveurs désagréables — il y a du monde et une cadence à tenir, les serveurs courent partout et n’ont pas forcément le temps de s’attarder aux tables.
Une bonne adresse !

Déçue. Testé entre copine mercredi soir.
Le cadre est effectivement très sympathique et les serveurs au niveau du cadre. Mais le rapport qualité/​prix pas top.
Petite portion (à 16 € le plat) qui né laisse d autre choix que de prendre un dessert.
J ai testé les ribs de cochon gras. Et je précise car oui il était gras, mais j ai eu du mal à trouver le cochon! Servi avec 5 pommes grenailles c est chiche.
Bouteille de rouge à 16 € par contre très sympa.
L avantage c est que vous né serez pas trop ballonné.

Une brasserie fort sympathique dans le 15ème, facilement visible. Elle a gardé ce p’tit coté vieille brasserie Parisienne qui attire, l’intérieur est original avec ses 2 étages, sa verrière et ses plantes qui donne un coté serre, le personnel est très souriant et serviable !
Ils ont un bon Kir, le kir du commerce, en apéro avec plusieurs choix de planches (planche bien fournie pour 2 personnes) à partager, dont leurs rillettes maison !
Nous avions pris de la viande en plat, et elles sont vraiment très bonne et fondent en bouche.
En bref, de bons produits !
Leur carte des vins est également intéressante !
En gros une brasserie à tester, je vous la recommande :)
Et p’tite astuce, si vous êtes en voiture, le parking du commerce à 2 pas du resto est gratuit (pour 2h de parking) si justement vous allez à cette brasserie ! Bön à savoir.

Café du Commerce is the quintessential neighborhood bistro, packed with locals for the lunch specila of Plat, Dessert & Café for 15,50 € ($ 18). If you only want the plat, it’s less than 13 € ($ 15) for lunch! Most people eating next to me ordered the steak and fries for their main course and the dessert & coffee special, but after hearing the table of businessmen next to me complain that their steak and fries were cold even after sending back their order, I opted for one of the daily specials, the lamb stuffed with chèvre (goat cheese), roquette (arugula), served with lentils and garlic cream for 19,50 € ($ 23).
It came in a beautiful little cocotte, and was delightfully rich and hearty. The garlic cream wasn’t even necessary, but it was great to sop up with the bread. For less than 4 €, I had a nice glass of Bordeaux. It was good enough that I decided to come back a bit later than the lunch rush so that the kitchen and staff would be less harried and try the steak and fries.

Le Café du Commerce est idéalement situé comme son nom l’indique pas loin du métro Commerce !
C’est un chouette restaurant, idéal pour les repas en famille… ou le week-​end.
On apprécie y aller car le décor y est agréable (beaucoup de plantes et une verrière en guise de plafond pour un maximum de lumière, c’est très appréciable et ça change pas mal de la lumière artificielle.
Du côté de l’assiette, c’est bon, frais, de qualité, typé cuisine française.
Le plus du restaurant: il est immense (car sur 3 niveaux), et ouvert le dimanche !

Traditional brasserie café in Paris, not far from La Tour Eiffel but quite removed from the fake touristy feel of that area. We went for a simple lunch of steak frites and raspberry/​blueberry sorbet (menu a 15 Euros) with a little Bordeaux red in a carafe. The meal was completely satisfying and well presented. When you enter the café, it’s like going into a theatre, through a lobby and vestibule and then into three stories of serving space. The space used to be a fabric store, and then in 1921 became a hangout for local auto-​workers. It has remained busy and popular among locals and, yes, tourists. It’s a great value for the quality although it is busy and hardly intimate.

I was here with a big gang so I think we had the entire top balcony. Getting to the loo was a bit of an assault course, but the food, wine and service were really good. The steak was great, and there was some sort of amazing chocolatey dessert. noms

Excellent. Went with family and friends. Very affordable given the quality of the food. Staff were friendly and helpful. Clean, high quality establishment, and management were walking around checking everything was OK. A bump between two waiters spilled some wine on my friend, but we just let it go and were given free champagne at the end of the meal by the management. We had the duck, chicken and sole between us — all outstanding.

Lovely restaurant with excellent food. Highly recommended!

This is the first time I’ve ever been in Paris, so I’m not the best judge of restaurants on this continent, but I am from San Francisco, which helps… a little bit. I came here looking to try their tartar of raw beef, or Tartare, as I felt like trying something daring. My friend thought I was crazy, but it was actually really good. It had what you would imagine of the texture of raw beef, but you could only taste all the spices and herbs that «cook» the dish. I really enjoyed the blend of the flavors and it made my first authentic french dish very memorable.
The service is what you would expect from europe, and the waiter spoke enough english to ask if i wanted the tartare cooked or raw, the way it’s supposed to be. I thought it was very nice of him to double check if I knew that it was raw before serving such a dish to an american.
The atmosphere was casual and I really liked how there were three floors, and both top floors could overlook the balcony to the main floor. The restaurant was also easily accessible with just a block down from one of the underground tram stops… and they close pretty late.
Next time, it’s escargot for me.

I came to Café du Commerce twice — once almost half a year ago, and another time very, very recently (less than two weeks ago).
The first time I came, I was here with a class; the décor was suitably impressive as one of our class excursions and the food was pretty good. However, we waited almost TWO hours for our set menus, which we had ordered ahead of time. Our teacher kind of blew up at the waiter, who was pretty rude about the whole thing. I remember really liking the prune/​fig on my terrine de lapereau, but I barely remember what food I got. So I guess it wasn’t that impressionable.
The second time I came, I brought some friends here because it happened to be right between UNESCO and the Eiffel Tower. This time, we had really good service; food got served promptly, and the server was pretty nice to my English-​speaking friends. Depending on what you get, this could be 4 stars, but it could also be 2 stars: x A friend across from me got a pig body part (not sure what it was) that smelled rather foul (and tasted pretty strong and inedible to me), but she liked it a lot. She’s from the South, so she said she’s eaten pig in all forms. That would’ve definitely ruined my experience.
I got the magret de canette with a berry sauce, but I felt that the sauce tasted too strongly of red wine. Although I asked for my meat rosé, it was poorly cooked. Although it was VERY cooked on the outside, I was disgusted to find that it was still completely raw on the inside. Although I understand the French love for raw beef, I don’t think poultry should ever be raw at all. I finally asked the waiter if it could be cooked a bit more, and he graciously took it back. They even added more fries. +1 for the service :) It was much better this time around, but eventually, I reached another point where the meat was again, still very raw. I guess the duck was not cooked evenly, and I didn’t want to ask for it to be cooked again.
One of my friends got the pastilla du canard au miel, and it was actually really, really delicious. If you get this, you’ll have a 5 star experience (: Excellent food, good service, lovely art-​deco surroundings (3 floors!) — what more could you want? It’s less than 15 €, too. Unfortunately, my magret de canette (which I thought would be worth paying for) was significantly more expensive, and nowhere as good.
We got the mi-​cuit au chocolat with the fleur d’oranger ice cream. The chocolate cake wasn’t very spectacular, but the ice cream was wonderful. :D
Overall, I’d recommend Café du commerce if you’re careful about what you get. No reservations needed because it’s really THAT big.

Very nice typic French restaurant.
The menu of the day is attractive.
The servers are kind and mindful.
The assortment of wine is very well.
Fresh dishes and lots of French gastronomic specialities.
A parking is in the near of the restaurant.

Le Café du Commerce is a beautiful, classy, laid back French restaurant in the XVè district of Paris. The restaurant itself has three floors and it has been serving customers since 1921! I order La pièce de boeuf, frites maison, sauce du jour. The meal includes your choice of dessert of apple pie or ice cream and coffee or tea. The steak was good but not extraodinary, and it was a bit on the chewy side. The steak was served with a sauce of the day. French fries were good, as they were nice and crisp.
After the main course meal, I ate the dessert of apple pie. Outer layer was very crisp, sweet and there are a thin layer of chopped up apples. The apple pie itself is very thin and it’s different from what you eat in North America.
Nearing the end, I was served coffee. It was a very small cup which came with a cookie. Coffee was strong, slightly bitter, but rich. I enjoyed it even though I’m not a big fan of coffee. Much better than Starbucks.
The meal also comes with French bread. The bread wasn’t exactly the best French bread I’ve had, but it was free. It was on the hard and on the chewy side.
Service was great. Waiter was very friendly and he spoke English and French.
All in all, I really enjoyed this French restaurant. My sister introduced me to this restaurant because mostly locals, and not tourist eat at this restaurant.

Typisch französisches Café mit umfassender Menükarte. Ein Traum ist immer die Crème Brulée
Die Kellner sind sehr charmant (zumindest, wenn man auf französisch mit ihnen spricht. :-)).
Ein Traum ist das Atrium, in dem man sitzt. Im Sommer wird einfach das uralte Glasdach aufgeschoben und man sitzt quasi draußen. Im Kombination mit den tollen Grünpflanzen ist das echt ein Highlight in Paris! :-)

Lovely lovely restaurant in Paris. I came here with my whole family and we had a big table on the top floor. We were treated extremely well — several of our party spoke French so I think that helped a lot.
The food was of good standard and reasonably priced for what you get. I liked that they gave you bread and the tastiest rillette as an appetizer.
It is off the beaten track in the middle of a shopping street. I think it was Place du Concorde we went to (but could be wrong).

Visited this restaurant in April this year and were very disappointed. The waiter who took our order only seemed to be interested in the regular French customers although his English was good. It is a gorgeous looking restaurant and we sat upstairs surrounded by plants. It has a lovely air about it. Our food was not good — I had lamb with lentils and it had a most peculiar taste. I didn’t complain but could only eat a few mouthfuls. We could see the kitchen door from where we sat and it was staggering to see how hard the waiters had to work carrying huge trays above their heads up the stairs.

The best restaurant in Paris bar none.
Truly wonderful atmosphere with a typically French feel. Off the beaten track which ensures you do not get ripped off and the food and service are brilliant.
The food is typically French ranging from Grande Salades to Steak Tar Tar.
The Art Deco building covers three floors and the waiting staff have no problem keep up with the number of patrons.
Until recently there was no English menu but that has changed (which probably means more tourists know about it now — damn!).
On a sunny day the whole roof lifts back so that yyou get a full view of the sky above and a terrific breeze.
It’s a truly romantic and magical restaurant. We have never been disappointed with the service or the food and we have been back several times (that can not be said for many restaurants any where).