Café du Soleil

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Upper West Side

Cafe Du Soleil

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Time Out says

Wed Feb 24 2010

Bad things happen when you pack too many tiny tables within inches of one another. At Café du Soleil, where the average two-top feels like it’s the width of half a person, silverware falls to the floor, waiters kick the back of your chair, menus catch fire from tabletop candles (ours did at least), and conversations (not to mention elbows) from adjacent tables constantly get in the way of your own. The decor inside the Upper West Side’s noisy provençal restaurant comes straight out of the Brasserie 101 manual: It’s an open room with oversize mirrors, hanging ball lamps and vintage French signs. The food tends to be either too salty, as evidenced in the calamari and the steak frites, or too bland, as in the pot-au-feu of shellfish in a weak saffron broth. The busboys and waiters do their darnedest to impress, refilling water and refolding napkins, but when the place is packed, the sense of chaos is unavoidable.

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Address:
Café du Soleil Upper West Side
New York

Cross Street:
between 104th and 105th Sts
Phone:
212-316-5000
Website:
cafedusoleilnyc.com
Opening hours:
Daily 6–11pm
Transport:
Subway: 1 to 103rd St
Price:
Average main course: $18. AmEx
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1. Café du Soleil
  - Upper West Side
    New York
  - 212-316-5000
  - cafedusoleilnyc.com
  - 40.800133,-73.968228

Categories:
Food & Drink
Facilities:
Restaurant & bar facilities. Catering. Full bar. Take out. Reservations required. Brunch. Vegetarian-friendly. Delivery. Accessible facilities. Wheelchair access. Outdoor facilities. Outdoor dining
Good for:
Going solo. Lively scene. Eating out

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You must have been there on an off night. Your criticisms sound like you were out of your mind or in a really nasty mood. This place has great food, great service and feel so like real brasseries in Paris. (I lived there for 10 years.) The steak frites is tender, tasty and reasonably priced. This is not haute cuisine. It's good, sturdy, brasserie food in a convivial atmosphere. I eat here all the time, especially when i'm homesick for Paris. Nora, UWS, NYC

nora Thu Mar 7
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