Anyone know L'entrecote in Paris. I think it is a bistro
 

Coworker suggested this as a must try in Paris. The menu is set, everybody gets the same red meat dish with the house sauce du jour....oh wow did I just say du jour. ...me French is picking up :) !

It's on rue St Benoit and is quite good . we often go there if we are too tired to travel father afield or if it's raining..we stay on rue Jacob. The menu is set..salad with walnut drressing, steak and frites. The sauce is extra good . I also like that you are served a small portion and then a second so that your food remains hot! They do agffer a variety of desserts at additional cost and their wine list is very nice.

Thanks Jody

They have a website but I think the menu is in French. I suspect this is price fixed. Do you know the price :).

Since you go there?

Thanks again!

I think there are 2 of them but I've also just been to the one on rue St. Benoit. I was there 2 years ago so the prices may have changed but if I recall, it was 65 euro for 2 - dinner (fixed price), bottle of wine and 2 desserts. Their wine was private label I think and was very good, I think we had a Cotes du Rhone.

It is very near Cafe Flore (around the corner) and across the street from Brasserie Zinc.

I should add that the name is Relais l'Entrecote. Have a great time in Paris!

There is one right on the #4 metro line one stop after St. Michel...I don't have my metro map in front of me but the station I think is St. Germain de Pres or something like that...up the stairs and one block down..very easy to find.

We used to have a restaurant just like that in NY called le steak which was on the east side...it was delicious and exactly as described, one menu sald and steak with a yummy sauce and indeed they serve you half the steak and put the other half on a heated dish and when you finish the first part, serve the second part.

Went there for lunch dressed in my touring uniform (t shirt, blue jeans and sneakers) and didn't feel underdressed which sometimes happens to me in Paris...restaurant was crowded but wouldn't say full.

Great place...

My wife and I were there in October- had to stand in line out on street but moved rapidly (about 30 minutes) As described- good food but no choice ... Steak & Frits- it is about a block off blvd St Germaine. When you get off metro at St. Germaine proceed right past Deux Magots and make next right.

65 E for two is what I recall also!

Wish I knew how the sauce was made!

Directly across the street is Chez Andre, the worlds best fish, john dory or sole, they also do a great tenderloin with bearnaise also. well worth a visit.

The name of the restaurant is le Relais de l'Entrecote.
In the 8th at 15 rue Marbeuf and in the 6th at 20 rue Saint-Benoit

There is a third; the original one, I believe. Relais de Venise, 271 bd Pereire, near Porte Maillot. Prices about the same.

Just an FYI we ate at the one in the 6th on Xmas day, so it's open, which very few restaurants are on that day. Very good!

On a Sunday night for dinner in March, what time would we need to be there so we would not have to wait in line?

They've just opened a branch in London and it has the worst reviews I have ever seen - no positives at all.

It's rare for me to laugh outloud at a restaurant review but http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/st...645036,00.html
or http://tinyurl.com/7cqtr
was so scathing that it was funny.

Oddly enough the same reviewer praises the Popeseye Steak House in Olympia.
It seems to have the same menu but much better.

The Popeseye cannot be praised highly enough - it's brilliant (

Also good (and a chain) is Chez Gerard - who do other things but specialise in steak frites.

Also - all the reviews (and there have been many) of L'entrecote have been as bad as the one above.

David...

Is that all the reviews on the London branch or the chain as a whole.....

Just the London branch, but it's supposed to be an exact replica of the French original (and it's quite a big chain).

Put it this way - if the British think your food's rubbish, that really is food for thought.

One review said it was more depressing than the Aberdeen Angus chain. That is scacely imaginable.

I've never been to the London branches, but I've never been disappointed at the one in Paris. Let us know what you think when you get back Sarah!

Well David, I most assuredly agree with you regarding Angus Steak House and all their off shoots although they've been in business a long time serving unknowing tourists.....

As far as restaurant reviews, I got flamed one time on another board when I suggested Cafe Rouge was a terrible chain based on what I had read in reviews in various British publications as many swear by it rather than swear at it...I find Cafe Rouge to be inoffensive, not bad but not great and I agree the best and most reasonably priced streak frites in London is probably Chez Gerard....

David It is a chain and you can see locations all over France.

Co-worker that is considerably well traveled and a foreign national herself still says its a must when she goes to Paris on leisure.

maybe it's just teething troubles, although I have never seen such scathing reviews of a restaurant. So who knows?

Caveat emptor and all that, innit?

The various Gaucho Grills are pretty good.

As for the cafe rouge chain - they're about to be given a major new overhaul. They need it.

Only knew about the location in the 6e - glad to see the other ones listed here.

<i>L&rsquo;Entrec&ocirc;te</i> (&ldquo;ribsteak&rdquo;) is a very common name for restaurants in France.

Yes ANTHONY,

I wish you would have posted earlier.

I found many Le entrecote's in Paris. I went to the one on Marbouef just off the Champs Elysees (sp). This was the one a co-worker sent me to. This has a chain feel to it and it was quite disappointing. The Pommes Frits were frozen American french fries similar to Mac Donalds (NO KIDDING). The 21 year old I went with actually thought they were like Orida French fries LOL. The walnuts on the ICEBURG LETTUCE were RANSID.The special sauce that the menu claims that they are famous for is a simple dijonaise with some lemon.

The house red wine was smooth and not like house red wine you would have in the states. We did buy by the glass and just went for the priciest option which I don't think even hit 10euros a glass. So I though this was nice.

Just wanted to mark in the event my thread sends someone on a search for this restaurant. We were told not to miss this restaurant and it really reminded me of fast food in a Sizler or Denny's.

after this scathing review, I need to add that I may very well have eaten in the wrong restaurant.

There was a menu but our server told us we were at 29 Marbeuf and we were meant to be at 15 Marbeuf. We did go outside and tried to find 15 and did not see any other restaurants on this Marbeuf with this number.

We did have other restaurant choices on our menu too so this leads me to believe that we were in the wrong place. Sorry to take up your time with my dismal review of the wrong place! Similar name wrong place!!!

Hi Sarah - thanks for letting us know. I was really concerned that the one restaurant I always go to in Paris had gone so far downhill in 2 years. I looked up the addresses for the two in Paris with that name, and it does look like you were at a different place.

Le Relais de l’Entrecote:
20 bis, Rue St-Benoit, (Odeon)
6th arrondissement, Paris
phone: 014-549-1600

15, Rue Marbeuf, (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
8th arrondissement, Paris
phone: 014-952-0717

Egullet just listed a review of Paris steak houses; only Relais de Venise made it, near the bottom I must admit. forums.egullet.org should take you to John Talbott's entries.

L'Entrecote is a restaurant chain - they are in allmost all the big cities in France. There is just one plate, with a special sauce which has been patented, so I was told in Toulouse. Their &quot;House wine&quot; was fine, nothing special for France, but ok for the food. I'm crazy about one of their desserts, &quot;Mont Blanc&quot; - just try it...

Hi

There is a small chain of them here :
http://www.entrecote.fr/

They started in 1959 at 271 Bvd Pereire, Paris, under the name &quot;Le Relais de Venise - Son Entrec&ocirc;te&quot;

The son of the originator opened more restaurants : Toulouse 1962, Bordeaux 1966, Nantes 1980, Montpellier 1990, Lyon, 1999.

There is a review of the Montpellier branch here : http://www.the-languedoc-page.com/to...estaurants.htm

&quot;L'Entrecote is just off the Comedie and visible from the tram stop. It offers no nonsense steak and chips. No choice of maincourse (except &agrave; point etc) with a choice of desserts. Two wines .... we take the Faugeres, but taste it carefully because the waitress explained it has a high failure rate !&quot;

Peter

So what IS the green peppercorn sauce? We're trying to figure that out.

Green peppercorn sauce? It's a sauce made with green peppercorns. You buy them in a little jar at nearly any supermarket. They are pickled in brine and soft, not hard like black peppercorns.

The yellow pages list 8 restaurants with &quot;Entrec&ocirc;te&quot; in the name in Paris. The name always brings painful memories to me, because the very best Entrec&ocirc;te restaurant (in my opinion) suddenly disappeared one day and reopened as a Pizza Hut.

Does anyone know the whole history of this restaurant? If I remember correctly THE L'Entrecote was the one on St. Benoit. And it became so famous that it was mercilessly copied and many don't go to the right one. What I'm not clear of is www.entrecote.fr. It says since 1959, but I don't see Paris in their list. So Entrecote.fr must be one of the copies.

I know San Francisco has a L'Entrecote and I believe NY used to. If someone knows the whole history, please add it to this thread. Thank you.

The one on St Benoit that is very good is LE RELAIS d&quot; Entrecote..the website you posted is for RESTAURANT l'Entrecote. 2 different places

So Relais de l'Entrecote is the one to go to and is the one raved about by so many Fodorites, right? Is it set up the same way, or is there a menu? What about kids who have a smaller appetite and don't drink wine? Can they share a meal?

Yep, you got it right! I posted the addresses for the 2 in Paris earlier in the post but here they again:
Le Relais de l’Entrecote:
20 bis, Rue St-Benoit, (Odeon)
6th arrondissement, Paris
phone: 014-549-1600

15, Rue Marbeuf, (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
8th arrondissement, Paris
phone: 014-952-0717

I have eaten at the Rue Benoit on my last 4 trips to Paris and have always enjoyed it. There is no menu. You get salad, steak, frites, wine (or I suppose any beverage) and the dessert is ordered separately. They serve 1/2 of the steak and frites and when you are done, they come by with the rest of the order. I like that, then the food is hot throughout the meal. I don't know about a child's menu. Have a fun time, I hope you are not disappointed.

There are zillions of restaurants in France that have <i>entrec&ocirc;te</i> somewhere in the name.

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