Tabac des Ternes

La brasserie a été entièrement refaite, nouvelle carte de plats faits maison et terrasse magnifique ! On adore ????

It’s a good thing I didn’t look at the reviews before coming here. We were on our way to a restaurant that we saw on trip advisor that had great reviews just from last month but when we got there it was shut down & closed! So we ended up across the street to this café. Server spoke very little English but was very nice and attentive. It’s comfort French food on a budget. We were in Paris so we wanted to eat as much French food as we can. So we had escargot, foie gras, duck filet steak & fried potatoes (like steak fries but round) & veal chop with pasta (taste like a veal stroganoff). We thought food tasted great! It wasn’t fancy at all but we were definitely not hungry when we were done!

Le café est hyper cher (3 euros) et absolument infecte. Les clients né sont pas même respectés: une terrasse est réservée pour les voyageurs avec des sacs, qui sont parqués comme du bétail, les toilettes sont défectueuses, etc.
Rarement vu pire.

I ate here twice on two seperate occasions during my trip. Decent food. Good service. Nice outdoor eating area located perfectly on the street corner.
This isn’t a place I would make reservations for. We ate here when we didn’t have time to find a nice spot. The location was convenient and located right next to the Mega Bus drop off/​pick up location.

If I could leave negative stars I would. This place was TERRIBLE !! From the minute you walk in to waiting almost 45min to pay your bill it was an absolute disaster. Server was RUDE, food wasn’t good, especially for the prices they have listed and did I mention the service was TERRIBLE ! We waited almost an hour to lay out bill that we had in our hands and our waiter kept walking by saying he be right there, right there. Finally I got up paid the bill at the bar and got the hell outta there and will never go back! Worse service I ever encountered, welcome to Paris

First — I rarely give a poor or so-​so review because sometimes it’s just a bad day, and you hate to ruin someone’s business.
I just checked into our hotel across the street, and the Concierge recommended a place that was then closed. Tabac looked like a pleasant café and had people inside. It was 3PM.
It was by far the worst brasserie food I have EVER had — and I’m comparing to authentic French bistros /​brasseries in Los Angeles, Silicon Valley etc.
It took forever to get a Perrier. I ordered a sampler of pâté that was supposed to be in a jar — mousse– like. I got very hard cold slabs of really horrible pâté — you couldn’t spread it at all because it was very hard. Two of the tasted horrible. The third was okay but had a very strong country pâté flavor.
I also ordered a ham and cheese omelette with chips and salad. How hard is it to mess up an omlette? I was very specific fromage and jamon. I got mushrooms, and it was over cooked on the outside and runny inside.
I pointed this out and showed it was overlooked. I then got a ham and cheese omlette. It was also overlooked and tasted awful. So did the crispy french fries. I surmise that the oil was very bad, on or in grill or fryer. Both tasted «off.» And the salad dressing’s olive oil seemed off.
There were many people there very much enjoying the food. Not me.

Fairly quick service. Excellent Croque Monsieur and frites. Breakfast or mid-​afternoon snack of a petite déjeuner of soft and fresh croissants and coffee is just enough. Conveniently located and averagely priced for Paris. On a bill of € 18 I tipped € 2

Easily the worst possible first experience in Paris, but quickly becomes better once you leave this tourist trap hole and go down a side street. Expensive, terrible food, poor service, and espresso that you’d expect from a gas station. Avoid at all costs.