Unisex

Great sidewalk café experience ruined by waiter dropping a glass which shattered and cut my girlfriend’s foot. Waiter didn’t notice or apologize for breaking the glass to begin with. Also, a touch overpriced

We were chilly having walked for 2 hours so we stopped here for a hot tea. 30 minutes later, we still had no drinks despite the waiter and hostess checking in twice. We left having not gotten anything.

Food was average. Atmosphere weird. Service pretty bad. Milkshake was good except it was warm. Which was a surprise for us not used to earn milkshakes. And a bit too pricy for the service, mediocre food, and odd décor. Wouldn’t recommend.

We are staying at the Marriott up the street and the hotel staff recommended this spot for a place to grab lunch. It’s like a disco club playing strange music filled with racial slurs. The tables are shoved so close together that when the waiters passed by they ended up putting their butts in our faces. The food was decently good but I objected to paying 8 euro for a bottle of water (about $ 15). On top of it, my companion is fluent in French and we typically have zero communication problems but the waiters here weren’t particularly friendly and insisted on speaking in English. Also, despite it being empty, the service is slow. Surely there are better cafes nearby… We won’t be back to this one.

Terrible service, even by French standards. Our server ignored us, forgot our order, and generally DGAF about us. The price/​quality ratio was so poor it’s not even worth mentioning. 12 Euros for some avocado on a piece of cold toast.
In short, this was a massive tourist trap and I’d avoid at all costs.

My mom and I had only enough time for 1 meal in Paris, and we spontaneously opted for this cute side-​walk eatery on the Champs-​Élysées. While you can’t beat the location and the setting, everything else was awful. Mediocre service and horrible food. I had a coffee, my mom a Coke and we shared a sandwich. The fries were cold and soggy and the sandwhich tasted like it had been made the day before and had been sitting out since– dry, soggy, and flavorless. And imagine our horror when we saw that the bill for 1 terrible shared meal amounted to $ 42 USD!!! Again, it worth paying something just to have a seat and take in the surroundings, but in hindsight I would have preferred eating a granola bar on the sidewalk instead.

For EUR16, I expect life-​changing epiphany-​delivering cocktails.

Unisex is an interesting bar. Like other reviewers said the atmosphere is odd — reminds me of a 70’s club — lots of red and velvety looking textures.
And while the atmosphere can be appealing for some — the service is very slow, the drinks are watered down and it is so expensive. € 16.50 for a cocktail!!? You must be crazy. Not only that we ordered the Mango Smash and the Berry Smash and it was crushed ice and maybe some syrup! We spent the next half an hour slurping loudly trying to find our drink. Stay away from this place if you can.
Ps. It is July and ‘Santa Clause is Coming to Town’ just came on, WTF.

I have to agree with past patrons, this place offers very little other than a funny named place to tell your friends. Slow, very snooty service. Not much going on here besides waitresses with tight lipped service, horrible music, and overpriced drinks. On the Hollywood Boulevard of Paris it appears.

I absolutely love this café and make a trip there whenever I’m in Paris. Despite its cold and slow service, the ambience is fun — you feel like you’re at a fun dance party café style at any hour of the day! Besides, the coffee is great! A bit pricey, but isn’t that to be expected on the Champs? I recommend it if you have the time.

Bar très bien placé (en bas de champs élysées) avec une grande terrasse, et c’est là ces seuls avantages.
Très cher, assez «m’as-tu vu» et cocktails qui n’ont pas grand intérêt.
Heureusement que cette grande terrasse sauve le tout !

Um… can this place check it’s rating and make adjustments or do they make enough money from ONE-​TIME customers… bad service and over priced. Must admit the drinks were good, though. That is the only reason it earned duex (two) stars.

Lieu beaucoup trop bling bling à mon goût.
Fréquenté par des habitués des champs élysées très «m’as tu vu?»
C’est vrai même dans le comportement du service on sent radicalement cette ambiance glaciale qui manqué cruellement de sourire et de convivialité. Personne n’a é té réellement désagréable mais c’est vraiment un concentré de tout ce que je déteste le plus dans la vie parisienne: des gens pas disponibles, pas aimables, qui montrent sans le vouloir que vous né les intéressez absolument pas, trop pressés pour attendre 2 minutes que vous hésitiez entre deux coktails, cher et incroyablement prétentieux.
Certe la déco est très sympa mais je m’y suis rendue après 19h et la musique lounge etait beaucoup trop forte pour se parler normalement.
En plus, mon coktail (un gin tonic) était imbuvable, un goût de bouteille de parfum!
Je n’y retournerai pas.

Bonne petite après-​midi passé dans ce lieu. Serveur aimable, cocktail très bon et ayant eu une petite faim j’ai commandé un croc monsieur excellent. Ma copine elle a pris des pâtes bolonaise. Pour patienté petit pain et carré de beurre AOP quand même… Un peu cher mais bon ce sont les Champs Élysées on paye surtout l’emplacement.

Les cocktails sont tops, les serveuses sont rarement aimables en revanche. Les propositions sucrées pour un petit creux sont pas mal également. Bonne ambiance certain soir grave au Dj et barmans. Un classique des champs à un prix relativement abordable vu son emplacement :)
Encore une fois, septembre 2014, une serveuse mal aimable qui mets 20mn avant de venir vers vous et non pas pour prendre immédiatement la commande mais pour nous dire de faire vite car il ferme dans 30mn, commence par faire ton boulot en prenant les commandes. Bön on passé entre autre l’harcelement des vendeurs de roses sur la terrasse.

Aweful. Snooty people and high prices.
Stay away. They also have a 2 euro service charge on every drink you order after 9 pm. Fine print HA!

Not a place to go if your hungry. Food is over priced and in small portions. Targets tourists. Had the French onion soup for € 10 and escargots for € 20. But food is not particularly bad either.

semaine dernière fin d’après midi, sortant d’une réunion à l’Élysée, je me décide d’aller me poser un peu dans un lieu sympa et avec la wifi pour un complément de travail, j’avais envie d’un capuccino ou d’un café glacé.
je vois donc cet ets qui dénote sur le bas des champs Élysées que je décide d’aller m’installer.
le cadre le mobilier le design et les couleurs de ce café (anciennement le madrigal) né font pas tout.
c’est un bel endroit mais l’hôtesse serveuse (cheveux bruns ou roux foncés courts) n’a pas décroché un mot durant mon passage. ni bonjour ni au revoir mais n’a pas manqué de me regarder bien droit dans les yeux.
elle m’a toisé de façon déplacée et insistante. on aurait dit un chien qui regardait une saucisse (?)
bref, pour les tarifs pratiqués et malgré de bonnes boissons, la prestation du personnel n’est pas à la hauteur ni du lieu ni de l’adresse.
cette condescendance est toute aussi incompréhensible inacceptable.
un mauvais plan sur toute la ligne
à fuir

It serves me right that Jamie W. and I had such a disappointing experience at a place that has the audacity to call itself Unisex. it sounds like a sex club, doesn’t it? And a cheap one at that since it wasn’t called Multiple Orgasms but plainly, simply Unisex. From my limited purview, it looked like a sex club since I had not seen that much hot pink since the debut of the Malibu Barbie Dream House. I’m embarrassed to admit that this was my first meal in Paris in 26 years. And I blame this indiscriminate selection on my hazy state of mind after getting up at an ungodly hour in London, catching the earliest Eurostar on the schedule, and popping out of the Metro half-​awake on the Champs-​Élysées.
Jamie and I kept looking at the exorbitant prices on the menu of one bistro after another and just couldn’t bring ourselves to patronize them. By the time we reached the end of the commercial corridor, we were famished. I remember throwing caution to the wind and telling Jamie we are eating here no matter what. When I took a look at the handful of Unilocal reviews for this place, I was disheartened to see such low ratings, but I was becoming delusional thinking they could be wrong, that this could be the culinary find of the boulevard. It wasn’t. I have to admit I was impressed they even served breakfast. Jamie was careful and ordered the € 15 Classique, which consisted of a Petite Viennoiserie (a fancier term for a croissant), a glass of fruit juice and another glass of hot chocolate (photo:
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No fuss, no muss there. Very little to screw up except that the orange juice was watery drivel truth be told. I was bolder and ordered the € 14 Les Oeufs Brouillés (Scrambled Eggs) with Bacon. Out came a small bowl of rubbery eggs with remnants of scorched-​to-​burnt bacon with two strands of scallions apparently to freshen up the presentation (photo:
). Hardly a petit déjeuner worthy enough to celebrate my return to Paris. Even Edith Piaf would be hard pressed to sing her anthem, «Non, Je né regrette rien», with conviction since I think she would have regretted that order. Consistent with the other Unilocalers’ comments, service was most definitely on the surly side, but of course, I thought that was because the waiters were, well, French and probably angered by the intolerable condition of working in a sea of electric pink (photo:
).
FOOD — 2 stars… certainly not the best Paris has to offer the palate
AMBIANCE — 2 stars… like a sex club with a pink hangover
SERVICE — 1.5 stars… ah, the French
TOTAL — 2 stars… well, at least it didn’t ruin our appetite for L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon later

Biggest tourist trap in Paris. Beer is warm, service is horrible and surcharge is hidden in the menu. Watch out and avoid at all cost…

LUNCH REVIEW: eh. It’s on the Champs-​Elysées so it’s convenient. There’s ample outdoor seating, so that’s nice too. The positives pretty much stop there. The service was average. Our waitress was nice, however, far too busy to give attentive service to any of her tables. We had a caprese salad and club sandwich. The salad was commendable. The balsalmic vinaigrette was quite nice and the buffalo mozzarella was soft, excellent texture and cut to the perfect thickness. The club sandwich, however, left much to be desired. Cold, thin bread. Mediocre fillings. The French fries on the side were the highlight of that plate. Very overpriced menu, but what can you expect for the Champs-​Elysées? If you happen to be walking by this place and wondering «should I or shouldn’t I» — I suggest you go with the latter and walk on to another place for lunch. I can’t speak to the nightclub aspect of this place but the unisex toilets did surprise me a bit during the lunch hour (although given the name of this place, I’m not sure why).

This place sucks. Overpriced food. tasted like it was warmed up in the microwave. Horrible.

Don’t go here late at night we could not get any attention from the waiter except to rudely move us to a different table.

Jo, amigos, qué sustito de receta nos pasaron con las consumiciones para ser abonada, esto nos pasa por tomarnos algo en el local más pijo de todos los Campos Elíseos. Mi señora se tomó un capuccino que venía en un vaso enorme, como los de horchata que te ponen en los pueblos de Alicante, y que parece ser que estaba delicioso; yo, como soy un tío saludable, me tomé un carísimo smoothie de soja con fresa, plátano y miel que haría que los ángeles se pasaran al lado oscuro, tal es la tentación que puede llegar a producirte algo tan delicioso.
Pero es un sitio bastante caro, ¿eh? Sé que ya lo he dicho, pero quiero que quede claro. Quizá deberíamos habernos dado cuenta al ver al público, sus trajes, sus enormes anillos de oro… Pero oye, no lo llaman «vacaciones» por nada, así que ahora no podremos volver a irnos de vacaciones jamás porque lo que pagamos nos dejó desvalijados para los restos.

RUDEST WAIT STAFF EVER! The waiter rushed us to place our order. A very unpleasant fellow. He literally went out of his way to be rude and insulting. Run while you can!
High prices, too. Oh, and did I mention that their service SUCKED? Sucked squared. Sucked cubed. Sucked… well, you get the idea. These are the kind of people who give the French a bad name.
Seriously, I’m one of those people who don’t judge an entire country by a few people, and I did not go to France looking for people who were rude to foreigners. But I sure found them here!

Bel endroit. J’aime le style assez classe du lieu. Musique un peu forte, le prix minimum 10 € pour un dessert, une boisson ou une entrée mais on est sur les champs donc, c’est pas particulièrement cher vu l’adresse.
J’aime le yoghourt et son coulis aux fruits rouges. ;-)
A découvrir !