With beautiful ceramic wall panels, Frenchie Pigalle is a restaurant located in Paris, suggesting a motley cuisine.
For his first "infidelity to the Rue du Nil", as he puts it, Gregory Marchand landed at the Hotel Grand Pigalle in SoPi. That lunchtime, in the dining room or at the bar, duos of friends, executives and fashion professionals exchanged ideas over a colorful cuisine to great effect: addictive radish declensions with parmesan; convincing skate in sweet and sour mode with mandarin oranges and roasted beet; more conventional pappardelle with rabbit stew... In the evening, it's all about small plates as surprising as they are promising. A fine selection of wines and spirits.
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Members' reviews on FRENCHIE PIGALLE
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Agree that this is a tourist trap.
The food was generally good but we were disappointed with the large share plates - not all all good value for the price and honestly the pork share plate was mediocre is taste and over cooked.
The music was so loud we couldn’t hear each other and after asking them to turn it down a couple of times we ended up switching tables. For a Monday night dinner I don’t think you need the music so loud people can’t discuss over dinner.
The music, although loud, was very cool old rock mix.
The setting is cosy and the wine choice was decent with good recommendations from the sommelier.
Still over priced and overall not as good as I had expected.
Pour le reste, c'est parfaitement médiocre : service ridicule (un speech de présentation bidon, où l'on nous expliquerait presque à quelle heure nous aurons le droit d'aller aux WC).
Des serveurs qui s'en tapent complet, juste un petit effort au moment de faire payer - et encore il faut se tenir debout 10 minutes devant eux le temps qu'ils daignent réagir.
Rien à voir avec Frenchie, ni même Frenchie To Go...
IL FAUT PRENDRE LES BACON SCONES! Ils sont délicieux et parfait pour commencer le repas.
En plat, nous avons opté pour la queue de lotte. La cuisson n’était pas bien maîtrisée (pas assez cuite) mais les accompagnements étaient bons.
S’agissant du service, les serveurs n’avaient pas l’air très concentrés. Nous avons dû leur rappeler à plusieurs reprises de nous apporter l’eau ou le vin..
First the waiter, a boy, had a very strange attitude and unwelcoming feeling. Then, after seeing the extremely HIGH PRICES, I thought either the place is very generous with portions or very skilled in making food. Turns out it was neither !
The fish was chewy and way OVER cooked. I've had chicken more tender than this fish. Its sauce was nothing special, tasted like salt, pepper, and water basically. The portion (Claiming for 2 or 3 people) was one fish for around 80 euros !! I could eat that on my own.
The tempura vegetables had RAW BATTER INSIDE !!! We communicated this to the waitress, but all we got was 'we will let the chef know'. The baked carrots were mediocre with a watery sauce underneath. Finally, the dessert followed the same attitude, no complexity, no intensity in flavours, just overly priced.
Restaurant acoustics is horrible, sooo noisy that we can't hear each other, and open kitchen with horrible ventilation that the place and our clothes smelled like intense cooking.
If this place is not aware of these things, they should do something about it, and if they are, then this is a disrespect to people's experience, money, and time.