La Source

La verdad que fue una grata sorpresa. Esta brasería queda a un lado de Les Invalides y paramos a almorzar por hambre pero más por el frío que hacía, así luego continuábamos a los Champs de Mars.
La atención fue super amable y divertida, el mozo nos hacía muchos chistes pero no estaban nada fuera de lugar, sobretodo a mi hermana y su pinta de cerveza. Había varias opciones rápidas y típicas de una brasería, pedí una hamburguesa y era gigante y super sabrosa.
Los precios eran muy adecuados y el lugar súper bien, como la mayoría de las braserías y cafés de París. Si estás visitando Les Invalides y necesitas comer algo o beber un café este sitio es una muy buena opción.

I was fresh off the plane and too early to check into my hotel so I stopped here before touring Napoleon’s Tomb. It was a disaster. This was my 5^th trip to Paris and I ordered in French while pointing to the omelet I wanted. The waiter brought my tea and the bill. I waited for a while knowing that service is slower in Paris than in the US. After about 30 minutes I looked at the bill and the only thing on it was the tea. I called the waiter over and asked about my breakfast. He scurried off and when my food did arrive it was not the omelet I ordered. I was so hungry I ate it and left. I will not go back to this place. It wasn’t that the staff was rude, it just seemed like they didn’t care.

Un bon rapport qualité prix. Que ce soit pour manger ou boire un verre, on est toujours bien accueillis par les serveurs en tablier.
Le petit plus: les cartes sont aussi très sympas ! je recommande cet endroit

I told everyone that when I went to Paris, I didn’t have a bad meal… except the very first one that I had. We were waiting to check into our apartment for our week in Paris and were instructed to wait at a nearby café until we were able to get keys. That being said, yes we were quite obnoxious Americans with our luggage in a tiny café. I thought I’d make up for that by communicating to the server in French, but he was not appeased. We were thrown into a tight little corner in this café and pretty much ignored for most of the time we were there. I had a Nicoise Salad thinking it was a safe bet to ease myself into the cuisine (I was coming off the high speed train and not feeling very well). I picked around for all the good pieces, but I wasn’t particularly happy with it. Not to mention the hoard of flies that kept buzzing by. Every time we even walked by this place throughout our time in the city, we didn’t get very pleasant looks from the servers. I’m sorry, your café is in the thick of tourist Paris… only a short walk from Invalides. Get used to it.

Ce n’est pas le restaurant des repas gastronomiques, mais que ce soit pour le café du matin ou pour déjeuner on est toujours très bien accueilli.
Pour le quartier le rapport qualité prix est très bien, la formule du midi est renouvelée tous les jours et suffisamment variée ce qui est très appréciable.

Pour ma part nous l’avons testé pour un café/​thé dans l’après midi
Serveurs habillés de tabliers, tables sympas, situation parfaite (invalides). Bref pour cet arrêt boisson sen plein milieu de l’après midi c’était très bien.
Thé, café et coca dans les 5 € chacun

This restaurant had shaky service. When we came in the waiter asked us if we were having lunch and we said yes (in French mind you)! Then he proceeded to give us the dinner menu (which we realized later when every table around us had the lunch one). Everyone in our party got an overpriced salad or chicken. It tasted fine but then our waiter abandoned us and started eating his own lunch at a nearby table. We had to finally summon another waiter to pay and he was joking around too much so as to be unprofessional. I feel like they tried to get us to spend more by giving us the other menu. Don’t bother going here.

We were out walking and stumbled upon this lovely little bistro. Salmon tartar and buffalo mozzarella both with salad for a fair price and fantastic service at 11pm.

Got some foie gras for a quick bite. It was good, though I thought it was particularly pungent (not awful, just more than usual), but that was compensated by a deliciously mysterious dark bread and the fruit preserves it came with. The complimentary table bread was mediocre. The service was bare-​bones. Satisfying on the whole, but probably not a place I’ll go out of my way to come back to.

This was our first and completely arbitrary stop during the week+ June 2013 Paris spectacular. We decided order off the French menu without mostly knowing what we were getting. As an example, «Oeuf Mayo» — wanna know what this is folks? It’s about 8 or so deviled eggs. My girlfriend at the time wasn’t the biggest fan so I ended up eating most of them, and they were delicious. Imagine having all of these dreams and ideas of French food, and the first thing that lands on your table are deviled eggs — it was hilariously awesome. And of course I had to eat it all because I had to pretend this is what I intended to order. We also had a meat and cheese plate, where we learned that the French idea of meat plate varies greatly from the Italian version. The French was very heavy on pâté, most of which was the hard version. Had my first experience with Country Ham here, and last (or so I thought), but I loved that we winged it and whatever it was it was.
This was also my first French carafe of wine experience. In the states, where is the one place you get carafe’s of wine? You got it, the diner. So imagine my surprise when I saw you ordered by various carafe sizes (this would repeat at many of the place we went to). But it was great folks. This wasn’t the same stuff you get in the states, this was served in a carafe but better then a lot of restaurant bottles. I was never a fan of French wine, didn’t like it and also felt there was a snooty attachment to it. Now I can’t understand how I felt that way. The wine here was fantastic, all 125 CL’s of it.
This was my first Paris experience, and you never forget your first Paris experience, so there may be some bias here that is unrelated to the service or food. But at the end of the day, you’re sitting outside on this narrow sidewalk in the culinary capital of the world — at the time it did not get any better.

Bön accueil mais endroit sans charme et qualité de la nourriture déplorable! L’assiette de charcuterie est à fuir: le saucisson est infame, le jambon pas bon… Bref, peut dépanner mais mieux vaut aller voir ailleurs.

Close but no cigar: friendly waitstaff, gorgeous patio does not negate sub-​par– dare I say Bad?- food.
Shame really. Great restaurant near Invalides. We passed by and saw stunning beef-​bourguignon, stopped in our tracks and took a seat with the locals. We ordered the beef-​bourguignon and the duck confit and escargots from the best waiter ever!
Sadly, the snails were the best part of the meal. The duck had been cooked so long, possibly microwaved, that it was HARD! Like, cannot cut. It had rubbery skin (confit should be crisp), a clear sign it had been reheated.
The beef-​bourguignon special was all fat and gristle in an amazing sauce. But yuck. How totally nasty.
We enjoyed our coffee and left, I was dissappointed. Sad face.

We found this restaurant near our apartment in the 7^th district. It was our 2^nd night in Paris. Ordered the onion soup and filet minions. The soup was decent. The filet was so bland and dry I thought they served me chicken.
My wife ordered the sirloin steak medium. It was practically raw and likewise very bland. Our son had the spaghetti bolognaise he liked his dish.
Dessert was the best overall, my wife had the crème caramel which was good, kind of like a flan. I had the chocolate mouse, which was the highlight of my meal. The dessert raised my rating from a one star to two stars.

Yesterday we were looking for a place to sit down & watch one of the World Cup games, noticed a few TVs-​great. Was with my 15 yr old daughter & we have no idea what we did (a little distracted maybe looking for a seat tho we did say bonjour) but our waiter was SO rude to us! Barely any eye contact, took menus roughly out of our hands, short words. Adding insult to injury was seeing how utterly pleasant he was to the other Americans right around us. My daughter noticed he nicely placed their checks under this little tin cup but crushed ours into the cup! And food just barely average. They are lucky to get 1 star-​only for its convience. What an awful experience.

3^rd night in Paris in the Rue Cler district, found this restaurant around 8 PM thriving with customers. Very pleased that the waiter spoke English, and was extremely courteous and helpful. Ordered Duck Confit and found it to be superb, very tasty, well seasoned, moist, etc. etc. etc. Loved the atmosphere. It was a Saturday evening and the restaurant seemed filled with locals. Highly recommend.

I really want to give more than three stars but it’s Paris and I place higher standards on a Croque Monsieur («CM»). Any other place in the world it would have received four stars. I think that is fair.
The owner/​manager was fantastic, the waiter was diligent and good humored, and the seating was fun, albeit not too practical. Nice view of street scene.
I started with the CM, which was pretty good but a bit too cheesy and generally lacking in flavor. I have had unbelievably CM in Paris, enough to almost convince me to permanently move here, but this was little better than restaurant chain quality. I was disappointed and now have to spend time tomorrow night finding a proper Croque Mons.
Followed the disappointing CM with duck and potatoes. Both were very good. The duck, consisting of leg and thigh, was flavored nicely, cooked PERFECTLY, and good sized. The potatoes were quite different than anything I’ve ever had; they appeared to be mashed, formed into egg shaped balls, and pan fried. If that is not how they were made then I just thought of something and will try it out at home. No coating or anything, just the potato. They were perfectly cooked, perfectly seasoned, and the texture was just amazing.
In all, I enjoyed this place. The staff was great, the fellow diners were friendly, and the room was quite comfortable.

Ma chérie et moi on cherchait longtemps ou manger avec l’envie de bien manger et pour pas trop cher… Le restaurant est en plein centre de Paris, pas loin de la tour Eiffel. La cuisine traditionnelle française est diversifiée et magnifique en plus les plats du jour sont bien confectionnés. Nous avons très bien mangé, l’équipe de ” La Source ” accueille d’une façon très sympathique et sont très gentils. En gros, le coin mérite un 5 en Acier!

Very convenient, easy to get seated, fast out with the kid’s food and entrees, but a mysterious delay before the adults’ main courses. The food was OK, nothing particularly interesting about chicken or «butcher’s choice» beef. The mousse was fine, too.
The problem came when she presented a bill that charged 17.50 € when we thought we had ordered the 14.50 € menu, then added a 3 € per person additional charge that we put down to an unadvertised seating charge, since we only got a bottle of San Pelligrino and a pastis. There are too many options in this category to get treated like this.
It’s unremarkable and disappointingly fast and loose with the bill. Keep walking.

My wife and I stayed at a small hotel near here and this became our «local» café for a few days. The food was excellent, loved the atmosphere, and on a corner where there is a ton of peoplewatching. Highly recommended.

Un VRAI bistro — serveurs authentics, la bonne biere, on mange SUPER et les prix sont raisonables… une exception dans ce cartier!
[long due posting, it was stuck as a Tip]

Quelle bon morceau de viande Qualité et bonne cuisson au rendez vous. Andouillette de très bonne qualité !

My wife, 12 yr old granddaughter and I ate here. The price was reasonable, ordering from the fixed prix. The food was OK, but nothing great

I went here in March, when I was in Paris for spring break. I was a bit nervous in Paris, as I don’t speak French, and I didn’t want to be the «obnoxious American,» and the waiter we had here was fantastic. I attempted to order in broken French, and he helped us pronounce menu items, recommended good things (and not just the most expensive things on the menu). For example, we initially said we would order an appetizer, entrees and a cheese plate, and he told us not to order the cheese plate until we were done because we likely wouldn’t be hungry for it. Of course, he was right, and we didn’t pay the extra 12 euros for cheese we wouldn’t eat. I had a seafood salad: smoked salmon and a white fish I don’t remember with baby greens, shrimp and a light french dressing, and it was very very good.
I would highly recommend this to anyone in the area looking for a light lunch. It isn’t extremely touristy, but it also isn’t exclusively French.

We were on the way to the Eiffel Tower and got a late start walking, but wanted to stop in a café for some coffee and a croissant. Surprisingly most places in this area were closed. So we were very happy when La Source was open and looked like a nice place for a coffee.
However, they were out of croissants, but the waiter was nice enough to explain to us Americans to try some tartines with butter and jam. I have never tasted bread with butter and jam so delicious. I’m sure it’s like that all over the city, but since this was my first experience with it, I was pretty delighted. And the waiter was so nice! I’d go back anytime!

Conveniently located (across the street from La Tour Maubourg Metro station) yet not too tourist-​y. You will see locals hanging out there, relaxing with friends, and enjoying good food/​wine.
The blackboard inside indicates they specialize in Aubrac Beef, but I just couldn’t pass plat du jour which is a wonderful looking whole fish, delicately seasoned with sea salt and a touch of oil to enhance without masking the freshness of the fish.
Good value, especially if you order from the set menu.