Café Rouge – Leeds the Light

My partner and I used to really like this Café Rouge. It was sensible price and half decent food. The beers were always interesting too.
We visited last night and waited to be seated. The place was half full so we asked if we could sit at a certain table to which the rude waiter replied no, that area was closed. He instead squashed us between two other couples. We were so close, the people had to move their things so we could sit down. When he brought the menus, he informed us numerous dishes which were sold out. We accepted this and I asked once more if we could move to a more comfortable table. He wouldn’t allow it so we walked out.
We used to visit about once a month but I wont be going back.

Visited here about 2 years ago, with my husband, and enjoyed it so decided to visit again late last year, much to our mistake.
Despte being clearly heavily pregnant, were ignored for 5 mins standing in the doorway so walked over to a table, then a rude man came over as we were about to sit and asked
’what do you want?‘
Food obviously I replied so we sat down and he said he’d bring us menus, got them 10 mins later, despite the place being dead, and only 3 or 4 other groups in, he was more bothered about gossiping at the bar.
When the menus did come he dumped them and walked off, I came back 5 mins later I was unsure being pregnant and fussy, he then stated trying to recomend things but in a really blunt aggressive way, leaned over to give my husband a specials menu, to which I got a face full of armpit, which smelt so bad I had to run to the loos, to throw up, on returning I told my husband I felt awful and couldnt eat there, the principal of the attitude, and someone that clearly unsanitary handling my food, so we got up to leave, to which he walked past tutted and grumbled something about wasting HIS time.
RUDE AND OVERPRICED

Enjoy a visit to Café Rouge from time to time, the set menu is worth having, I always go for that when I go there but otherwise the menu is little overpriced for what you get, although the choice is pretty good and the specials menu is always a look at.

I went to the restaurant on a Thursday evening. We had a two for 1 voucher on main meals. The missus and I were quite looking forward to sampling a bit of french food and somethign new.
Unfortunately we were very disappointed and will not be heading back there. We arrived and the waitress mentioned the wait would be 40 minutes for the food which didnt bother us as we wanted a nice place to sit and hacve a drink first. However it took the waitress then 20 minutes to ask what we would like to drink and then a further 15 minutes to take our order. The place was busy but not to the point that it would take that long to take someones order. Anyway by this point we werent to bothered as we had been told there would be a wait.
Our food arrived and it was disappointing. I had a fish dish that i could of quite easily bought from the work canteen for £2 or so. The restaurant had cleared out pretty much by the time we had finished eating but it still then took the waitress a further 20 minutes to clear our plate.
We paid and made our way home. Im just thankful that we had a voucher to use as paying full price for the food and experience would have left a bitter taste in our mouths.
Shame as we expected so much more.

I went with friends to the Café Rouge for the first time, using Tesco Clubcard vouchers and we were all a little disappointed.
Firstly, there wasn’t much atmosphere because for a Saturday evening it seemed quite empty and a bit cold.
The waiter was Polish and friendly enough but let us order our food and came back ages after to say three things we had ordered weren’t available that night which was a bit odd for a Saturday evening.
The food also seemed very expensive for the size of portion we got and it wasn’t that brilliant.
I don’t think I would go again to a Café Rouge.

I went here some time ago with my fiancé and due to the terrible quality of the food we have never been back and would never want to. The food of course is quintessentially French and that is not the problem. I had a broccoli and cheese quiche with french fries and fiancé had a croque monseuir, which was a little greasy but otherwise OK (but not really worth the money — £7 for a croissant with a bit of cheap ham and cheese?) but my food was so salty it actually made me feel quite sick. The quiche had loads of salt in it and the whole meal had been doused in the stuff. The French must sure love their salt. My fiancé has high blood pressure so I never use salt in cooking, so this visible mountain of salt was unbearable and I couldn’t finish my meal.
The coffees we had were delicious, and reasonably priced. I wouldn’t go back there for dinner or a snack but I would visit there again for a nice sit down coffee.

I went here for a Christmas party with work and wasn’t too impressed. The food was average and there was no atmosphere what so ever and considering the time of year you’d have thought it would have been quite easy to create a bit of Christmas cheer. Its overpriced and overrated.