La Rotonde

Got out at Vavin metro station, and just got caught by this La Rotonde right at the corner. 1920/​30s style with red velvet decoration and mirrored ceiling. Nice waitor service, perfect steak and lamb steak.

Oh how I wish we were back at la rotonde again. We started off our trip here to celebrate our engagement (on a river cruise) and ended up coming back every night of our stay. We ended up coming back 5 nights in a row and loved it more each night. We sat outside and enjoyed a carafe of wine every night and people watched and ate great food. The crème brûlée was some of the best I have ever had. Service was great and the wine was reasonably priced. Wish I could be there right now!

This was the first place we had dinner in Paris.
The waiters were great! The food was excellent!
They helped us to create a great memory in Paris! I would definitely go back!

This is the place to go if you are looking for the quintessential Paris café experience. I went at lunch and its full of locals on their 2 hour lunch. The interior is beautiful and looks like a café in Paris that you dream about. The food and service are great with an extensive menus of French classics. Goat cheese salad is superb as was the duck breast salad with walnuts and grapes. Wine by the glass list was nice.

I love it here !! First your greeted by everyone and I mean everyone it is the most elegant feeling I can say By far it’s like your own white glove service the theme of the restaurant seemed very 1920s flappers. Red velvet everywhere mirrored ceiling rustic beautiful paintings it was just amazing I loved every minute of it the energy in the place. My husband and I arrived here about 11 PM at night to be served and it was amazing one of the few places in the area that was still open although we didn’t intentionally mean to go and we were following another Unilocal place that said it was open we got there it was closed (strange) anyway this is right across the street it made me happy that it was dress attire is casual but we were dressed up for a highend place and we sure did feel like we fit in better (I was in a very nice long dress) but I noticed people very casual in sweats being served so it seems open .
Anyway on to food !! First of all if I love wine which I can’t remember for the life of me Mostly because my husband is French so he handled that speaking part lol, I got salmon tar tar !!! Omg so amazing !! Snails and oysters !! We got which ever was in season and more recommend so good then I ordered a lamb ans mashed potatoes and he ordered a large steak that was circle and thick with scalloped potatoes. I never had my lamb before it was chewy as expected and I would of liked better with out the gravy but it was still good and great experience he loved his steak .
Moving on to desserts !!
He got some baked peach which was amazing with icecream and I got some platter with everyyythinggg they had and coffee :) like a sampler I guess it was amazing experience I loved it our bill was insane but worth it it is deff a expansive place but we did anticipate it prior as stated
If your in France and here just go !! They also have a English menu too !!

Local folks enjoying exceptional food …
Am American and they put you into section where the waiter speaks
English… O K but who wants to be around Americans… I can see them at home
If you try to speak French not only appreciated but better area for seating
And great service…
Beautiful…so very Chic

Was dieses Restaurant angeht bin ich hin und her gerissen.
Pro: super Essen, nette Bedienung und schöné Atmosphäre
Contra: Hektisch
Einen langen Abend hatten wir leider nicht. Nach dem Dessert wollten wir den Wein noch austrinken und noch keinen Kaffee, prompt kam die Rechnung. Eher unglücklich. Fühlte sich irgendwie nach Abfertigung an. Das Essen ist jedoch sehr gut und der Preis absolut angenehm. Wer nachher noch was vor hat oder danach in die nächste Bar will, ist dort gut aufgehoben.

The best thing on this restaurant is the service; the food is very good too, but in the sea of rudeness we found in Paris, this place was a oasis of kindness.
A little expensive, but totally worth it.

First day in Paris and first Parisienne restaurant. I tried asking for a table for one in French and the server responded in English. I was slightly relieved, practicing my French makes me nervous.
Anyway, I sat outside for front row seats to people watching. The place is filled with locals having their cigarettes/​drinks and it seemed at 7pm, I was the only one dining. The server quickly dropped off bread, olives and butter to start. I had the cote du rhone and the steak tartare which could feed two with a smaller appetite. It came with mixed greens and fries. You know how they know you’re not a local? You’re getting ketchup on the table.
Once I got up to leave around 8:45, the place was swarming on a Sunday. Friendly service + good menu. g

A quintessential Paris Café experience. Our server Samira was spot on and the food was cooked and presented perfectly. So many good things on the menu that I must definitely go back on my next trip.

If you have tried a very good restaurant. This one will be not so good. If you haven’t it is ok

My husband and I were recommended to this place by a French friend. It was so charming. I felt like I was back in the 1920’s! The booths are red velvet and amazing paintings on the walls. The food was excellent at a reasonable price. It was a magical evening and worth every penny!

My mother and I visited on a recent trip to Paris. The staff at the nearby Hotel des Academies et des Artes recommended La Rotonde for a casual late lunch.
We were seated immediately upon arrival at an outdoor table, which was perfect for this particular beautiful spring afternoon. The staff, although not the warmest (but I suppose it is Paris after all…), worked efficiently to bring us olives and crusty bread to enjoy while making our selections. We decided to share a half dozen oysters, followed my steak frites for me and cod for my mother. The oysters tasted fresh and well chilled, and our mains were solid although not especially memorable. We finished off the meal with a rhum baba which I think was more rhum than baba.
A fine place which I would definitely visit again — but in a city where you’re spoiled for choice when it comes to food, I can’t give La Rotonde any higher than three stars.

Very nice meal, plentiful outside seating, also an English menu. A little pricier than most in the area, but I think this is due to the prime location. All our food was wonderful, and service was also great. I would recommend.

We would dine here every day, if we lived in Montparnasse and had more money. This is what is expected of a good 5 star restaurant. Good service, good ambiance, and most importantly good food. Upon entrance, you are warmly greeted and seated. They speak English and will accommodate Americans and their idiosyncrasies, even though too many Americans have no clue of French customs as to dining or properly addressing the French waiters. I saw one American couple go in and speak English as if in an American restaurant and order as if at a Dennys. In France, it is custom to be more formal in greeting and addressing people. For dinner, you say «Bonsoir Monsieur» to greet your waiter and wait to be seated. You are expected to be hungry and eat at least a full entrée. Formal dinner begins at 7:30 to 8 PM in a French restaurant, not a café or brasserie.
Anyway, we ate here twice and had different selections all of which were excellent, including first plates of raw oysters, entrees of leg of lamb, sea bass, and beef. For dessert we had the crème brûlée which was the best ever and most of all divine.

Un cadre mythique, un rapport qualité prix très correct et, en plus, un personnel très sympathique !
Réserver.

We went here on a Wednesday night so didn’t make a booking however it was very busy! Luckily we got a wee table by the door which was actually perfect.
We were given some bread and the waiter was very nice. My boyfriend ordered from the set menu which was 3 courses. We shared the bacon salad which was huge and filled with meat! He got the steak and chips, which unfortunately came out too rare. However they quickly gave us a new one with fresh chips. I ordered the steak tartare which was huge too! It also came with chips and both things were lovely. We then shared the proiteroles which were very rich but tasted good for the price!
We sat outside under the heaters for some drinks which was lovely.
Overall good area, good price, tasty classic food

Service was fantastic and kind. Penne rigota and French onion soup were great. Atmosphere was nice with traffic on a busy corner. Heated outdoor seating. Had Irish coffee for the first time that was tasty!

Great place! Classic and authentic. The service was outstanding, the waiters very polite and food was delicious especially oysters, steaks, and sea bass.

Second time in France for me, first time was before Unilocal.I’m probably not qualified to critique French food but here goes. La Rotonde gets 5 stars.
I wanted to give it six.
In Paris for only one day of business, so we asked the concierge for the best restaurant nearby. La Rotonde was it. We went with one streak tartare as an appetizer for five, and then had either the sole filet or the prime rib.
Everything was surreal. Before the steak tartare came, they laid out an olive tapenade, olives, and bread and butter. The olive tapenade was a bit salty… oops… it was caviar. (Did I say second time in Paris?) We had difficulty agreeing on a wine, we spoke English, broken French, and Hebrew. We went with a sancerre «ruege» (yes please). But they put a bottle of Heintz ketchup on the table. I figured we were «made» as Westerners. No other table had ketchup.
The steak tartare was unearthly. The meat was clean and cool. Inside we tasted capers and mustard. Sauteed onions popped in our mouths. We licked our plates. The best steak tartare we’ve all ever had — even those among us who weren’t «steak tartare people».
Others tried the prime rib: it was cleaned ad nauseum and looked small without it’s usual bone and glistening fat: but it tasted exactly like filet minion. Wow. I had the sole… the waiter steered us away from the sea bass because the sole was a special. Two tux wearing waiters came out with two soles for the table and asked us sole eaters if we wanted them «boned». I said «Bone my sole!» So did my travel partner. They came back in a jiffy with two de-​boned soles on two fat white plates.
Each sole was about a foot long and glistening with butter. Each bite — ¼ inch thick — was like eating an aged two-​inch thick pink lamb chop at Keens Steakhouse. We-​could-​not-​fi-​gure-​it-​out. The skin was a flavor-​bomb. 24 bites later, I was done. I counted. My soul was devastated by the last bite, and I dreaded it’s flavor and texture because I knew there’d be no more. It’s like when I saw Star Wars in 1977 and left the theatre kicking and cursing and punching the walls because I knew I would never see it again with virgin eyes.
Desert was amazing. The baba-​au-​rum cake was delish and rum-​soaked to the limit. We had a 17 year AA member at the table — AND HE TRIED IT AND LOVED IT! (I hope I don’t find him on the curb in the morning). The crème brûlée was surreal. The caramelized sugar on top was thinner than any I’ve ever had and the baked cream beneath was creamier. The fried bananas came with a show. A tux clad waiter set the plate on the end of the table, drizzled Rhum Clement on top, and lit it afire. He let the blue flame burn as he spooned the drippings back on top. Voilá!
This place was amazing from start to finish. The Paris atmosphere drenched us there. Every table in the place had people talking, rubbing elbows… it was like Times Square. I felt like I was in a movie.
The bananas for desert were fried in a butter concoction and blackened against the pan… I prefer frying them in equal parts butter, brown sugar, and marmalade, with a little Grand Marnier boiled off before the fiery rum. Easy… I’m just sayin’.

Heureusement on m’a invitée à dîner. J’ai trouvé que c’était très bon et copieux — presque trop copieux — mais mettre autant d’argent pour de la cuisine certes bien exécutée mais aussi classique j’avoue que ça né me traverserait pas l’esprit. Après il y a le cadre de carte postale, les serveurs sympathiques efficaces avec leur gouaille de titis parisiens en sérieuse voie d’extinction — donc il est certain que cet établissement marque des points; mais il faut quand même être adepte de classicisme culinaire.

Excellente cuisine!
Pour mon anniversaire je voulais tester ce restaurant, et je n’étais pas déçu, l’endroit est super propre, les serveurs sont sympas et souriants et la cuisine est un régale je dis bravo au chef… Je recommande.

Yeah I like this place.
Old Montparnasse classic, old haunt of early 20^th century artists, and located on a great corner for sitting outside with a little petit dejeuner and planning a day of doing nothing.
You really can’t mess up petit dejeuner. Buy some reasonable baguette and croissants to serve, and squeeze a few oranges for juice. The hardest part must be having at least a mediocre cup of coffee. Rotonde gets good breads, squeezes oranges and makes a really nice coffee, all on a corner that is great to sit on. You really can’t go wrong here.
We also came for lunch and I highly recommend the steak tartare, it was fantastic.

It’s always a pleasure returning to La Rotonde, the historic Parisian restaurant in the lively Montparnasse district. Although when we recently arranged a dinner party for an old friend from London, I was slightly hesitant to choose La Rotonde as in recent years, we found the restaurant was a bit off in its game.
We were pleasantly surprised that the La Rotonde we loved was back in stride with brisk and professional service, white tablecloth settings, and a wide dinner menu even in Summer. We recognized most of the staff, so I suppose this means there’s a good continuity too.
La Rotonde, the legendary haunt of writers, artists, and composers (Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Gershwin), today hosts a mix of evenly matched French and foreign clientele. Diners can choose to sit inside on plush red banquets, chairs, or be outside to watch the panorama of a Parisian evening.
We all had an amazing Gazpacho soup while our friend started with a Salade Frisee with egg. My wife and I both ordered a superlative Magret de Canard, clearly the best I had in France, and a reminder of what was missing from the menu in the past few years. The duck’s plentiful slices were perfectly seared and presented with a rich lingenberry sauce.
As our friend stayed with a salmon dish we compromised on a Rose wine.
La Rotonde is pricy but not shockingly so. Even the extensive wine list offers many affordable options.
I’m happy to say that La Rotonde is back with a flourish.

C’est pas mauvais, cher surtout pour ce que c’est.
A 45 € pour le menu du soir, on s’attend à avoir du travail dans l’assiette et surtout du service.
Le travail dans l’assiette laisse à désirer, mais alors le service, quel SERVICE POURRI !!! Demander 5 fois une carafe d’eau et se retrouver face à la même question 3 fois: «de l’eau plate ou pétillante?». Par pitié, un peu de respect pour vos cliens.
Adresse à éviter à tout prix… oui oui même pour 45 € !!

Un sourire et tout serait parfait
La carte est tres complète et alléchante. La déco sobre et agréable. Le serveur efficace. On né sait si ce sont les patrons (on suppose que oui) ou des commandants, mais ils tirent une tête, sauf avec vtre carte bleue. Pas souriants, pas polis, pas accueillants… faut vraiment faire partie des habitués pour qu’ils vous tendent la main avec le granddddd souriiiiire…

C’est un superbe restaurant très chic et très cosy.
Une ambiance et feutré, une très bonne restauration.
Ils servent tard, en weekend jusqu’à 2 heures du matin.
Bonne adresse, mais un peu chère.

Un endroit culte
En venant sur Paris, notre guide nous invitait à venir découvrir cet endroit. Franchement, le cadre est propre, class. Le serveur a l’ancienne avec tablier noir et blanc nickel. La carte simple mais très chère !! Les tables super propres avec nappes blanches et verres transparents. La viande est un délice, les desserts aussi. Bön j’ai lu des critiques sur le ou les patrons avant de venir. Oui je confirme, on les reconnais facilement, ils font la gueule… à peine polis même en encaissant votre carte bleue. En bref, beau, bien, bon mais cher.

Menu à 42 € le soir… et le midi ! Donc pas donné du tout (quand je pense au menu déjeuner avec 4 plats du resto Abri à 22 €, ou à celui de Septime à 26 €, ça me fait mal).
Cuisine classique, mais les produits sont bons. En entrée, les oeufs cocottes à la crème de cèpes ont bonne réputation et sont généreux. Excellent cabillaud à la vapeur, très charnu, nacré, accompagné de son aïoli et des légumes. En dessert, beau mille feuilles dressé minute. Feuilletage très fin et craquant.
La salle, enfin, est un peu dans l’esprit «lourde moquette rouge, lumière tamisée et dorure». Un peu vieillot donc (le restaurant devait être refait cette année mais que voulez-​vous, c’est la crise…), mais ça a son charme aussi. C’est l’ambiance Montparnasse comme on l’imagine.

bon ok, la cuisine est trés bonne, mais le service nul, archi nul, on vous vire, l’addition arrive en meme temps que les olives (presque) le serveur faisait son possible, mais les patrons ressemblent plus a des videurs ou des vigiles qui né cessent de vous observer. Je né recommande pas. a eviter

Une vraie brasseirie parisienne
C’est toujours un plaisir de venir diner dans cette véritable brasserie parisienne. Le service est rapide est efficace, les plats excellents, le seul petit reproche, le prix du menu a pas mal augmenté en quelques années. Mais cela reste une trés bonne adresse si l’on veut passer une bonne soirée.

On né peut pas le louper tellement c’est écrit en police 2048 et en jaune !
Bön en dehors de cela, on se retrouve dans une brasserie avec beaucoup de touristes, la preuve… il n’y a que des avis en anglais pour ce commerce ! Des plats assez variés un poil cher diront certains (tu m’étonnes, faut les alimenter en courant ces grosses lettres !) mais c’est une brasserie high level avec de jolis plats tout de même comme en témoignent certaines photos…
Un lieu trop visible pour être apprécié…

L’orchestre pour une symphonie ?
Excellente cuisine, un regiment de serveurs, une symphonie gastronomique de brasserie, une ambiance 1920, mais une orchestration, à percussions, vibrante, un peu trop volumetrique le soir !! J’ai dit.

C’est une très grande adresse à Paris, un beau décor et une carte parisienne,

Ein sehr gut Brasserie sehr typish Parisian.
Die Kellnern sind nett und die Qualität ist immer da.
Diese Ort machst du ein richtige Parisien werden wollen.

Terrasse blindée ce vendredi 23 septembre. un serveur peu gracieux nous envoit vers le maitre d’hotel qui annonce 5 minutes à peine d’attente pour une table de deux en terrasse. Un autre serveur nous annonce 10 minutes Sauf que l’on voit un couple attablé à coté d’une table de deux vide dont les sièges accueillent l’un un casque de moto, le second un sac de dame. On interpelle le serveur qui lance eux ce sont des clients VIP, c’est normal, vous n’avez qu’à attendre. Moi je lance à mon ami viens on se casse. nous pas Vip mais un brin pressés Comme quoi prestige et réputation d’un établissement né font pas tout.

Le Meilleur de Paris
Un lieu historique, une clientèle cosmopolite, un service parfait, une cuisine savoureuse, une carte renouvelée au gré des saisons. Côté cuisine, de grands classiques incontournables, comme le bar au citron confit, les asperges sauce mousseline (en saison), le croustillant de gambas, le foie gras, ou le mille-​feuilles à la vanille. Côté service, beaucoup de gentillesse et, s’il le faut, de discrétion. C’est sans doute aussi pour cette dernière qualité que vous pourrez y croiser régulièrement quelques célébrités du «tout-​Montparnasse» littéraire, artistique ou politique, dont c’est une des cantines. Pour le dîner, le déjeuner, ou seulement un café en terrasse, La Rotonde, c’est tellement Paris !

Idéal pour les pauses café !
Cet endroit est également parfait pour prendre un café dans l’après-midi. Je vous conseille particulièrement le chocolat chaud à l’ancienne qui est le meilleur que je connais.

La classe! parfait pour les amoureux!
J’y ai mangé un plat de poisson proche de la perfection!
allez y!

Un grand classique… On n’est jamais déçu… Dans le plus pur style des brasseries de Montparnasse. Un endroit parfait pour le brunch du week-​end.
Je vous conseille les œufs en meurette.
Que de bonheur!

Restaurant ou Brasserie? Je né suis pas sûre, en tout cas c’était bon!
Menu avec entre, plat et désert pour 38EUR
Reservation indispensable, samedi soir 45′ d’attente sans reservation.

Je né peux m’empêcher de m’arrêter quand je passé près de la Rotonde pour son sublime chocolat chaud.
La journée ensuite parait bien meilleure.
Attention toutefois à l’amabilité taciturne des serveuses.

Dort hatten wir sehr leckeren Lunch. Sehr preiswert, äusserst überraschende feine Küche. Sehr gute Bedienung! Sehr empfehlenswert!

Pariser Restaurant an der Ecke Boulevard du Montparnasse /​Boulevard Raspail mit der klassischen pariser Brasserieküche. Fisch und Meeresfrüchte sind sehr gut, wenn auch die Preise den Pariser Verhältnissen entsprechen. Man sollte wissen: wenn man Crevettes grises bestellt, muss man diese (anders als zum Beispiel an der flämischen Küste) selber puhlen. Also: Muße mitbringen oder etwas anderes bestellen.