Cuisine de Bar - Paris

If this was a review just for pastries like the apple turnover, it would get 5 stars easily. We also had breakfast here on a Saturday morning. It was pretty empty, perhaps because the set breakfast for 11 euros is pretty pricey considering it only comes with a croissant, juice, bread and coffee. It was all good, just a little pricey. And if you're looking for butter for your bread - you're out of luck.

We shared 3 open faced sandwiches and all 3 were excellent . . .on ever so tasty Poilane bread. The accompanying salads were perfect, with a mustardy vinaigrette over fresh greens. A casual atmosphere for a light lunch!

I am a fan of the big, round loaves of Poilane bread. I usually manage to go to this location a couple of times a month, just for the pleasure of lugging one of them back to my apartment nearby. Normally, I am very happy to make my own toast - but today, I was freezing, tired and hungry, so I decided to try the cafe side of things. I should have kept on walking home, instead...This is a streamlined room - very "Danish-modern" - cold and impersonal (except for the interesting bread-y chandeliers) I could have been eating in a bus shelter. The server was not at all helpful to the non-French speaking tourists, but was somewhat nicer to me. It was clear this was not her idea of a dream job, and that she would much rather be wherever her friends were hanging out at this very moment. Too bad - I was there to eat, so I stayed.I chose "artichaux et tapenade", and received 3 thin slices of well-done toast, a total of 3 canned artichoke hearts, and probably a total of one tablespoon of decent black-olive tapenade. There was one thin slice of dried tomato per toast, and a couple of leaves of something green on the side. I had a bottle of water and a coffee, and paid 25 EU to the server who had spent most of her time on the telephone while fishing artichoke hearts out of a vat of water. The food is prepared to order, and the table of 4 next to me had to wait almost half an hour to get their lunch of various kinds of toast. Everything in the kitchen looked very organized, but the server is obviously not interested in making a career out of this job. The table of 4 wanted dessert, and were motioned into the bakery side, where they had to pay separately for their choices. Then they came back and ate them, which seemed odd and unpleasant, to me.This is such good bread, and it's a travesty to see it dishonored in this way. Cut a decent slice, pile on some decent toppings, charge as much as you need to, and keep the personnel off the darned phone. Then, maybe I'll be back...if I am going to spend this much for toast, it should be a better experience.

We've gone to the Cuisine de Bar on the rue Cherche Midi several times and always found the food delicious and the service impeccable. Poilane's newest bakery on the rue Debelleyme is nicely integrated with its luncheon component, Cuisine de Bar. We arrived a bit early so seating wasn't an issue. The food, they're known for tartines, or open-faced sandwiches, was even better than we remember. Oh, generous portions and a great value, too.

I've heard that coming to Paris wont be completed without visiting Cuisine De Bar. However, we went there and didn't feel welcomed at all! We felt like we won an free ticket to go and try their menu. The staff we unhappy, couldn't speak a word in English & the food was not worth it! Well, at least we had the chance to take it off our list