La Rue Marche Cafe

Excellent taste, diverse menu. Décor needs some space planning so it doesn’t feel so empty. Portions were a little small, even for lunch. I suggest fries instead of the homemade potato chips (good taste) … so you fill up more.

Enjoyed dinner here with my husband yesterday. Incredible attentive service from Gamaliel, and the award-​winning chef even stopped by our table to see how we liked everything. I had the mushroom ravioli (liked the pasta and pesto sauce but didn’t care for the hard bread that came with it), and my husband had the Marche Elite Trio from the happy hour menu; I really liked the calamari & artichoke appetizer too. Reasonable prices, including a good bottle of pinot noir. The restaurant decorations were a little incongruous with the music & menu, at least at dinner time, but very comfortable. We will definitely be back (and intend to try the homemade sangria!). We love having a nice place like this so close to home and will recommend it to friends!

The name sounds a lot fancier than the place. I should have taken Michael U.‘s review more seriously. The food was good but nothing memorable. Keep in mind I’m speaking about breakfast. I had the fresh berry crepes and my friend had a ham, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich on a croissant. I didn’t like that they put yogurt IN the crêpe.
PROS: The name
Service was good
CONS: The crêpe itself was cold along with the berries
Yogurt in the crêpe mixed in with the fresh berries

We live very close to here and decided to give it a try for breakfast and were very happy we did.
My wife had a short stack and a side of sausage. The pancakes were light and fluffy and very juicy sausage. I had the chefs French toast and a side of biscuits and gravy. French toast was good and a very good biscuits and gravy.
The service was very good. I hope this place catches on.

The food was excellent! The wait staff was very nice. The chef came out to the table to see how everything was. It was a really nice experience. :)

Items Ordered:
Cinnamon Bun
Pecan Roll
Almond Croissant
Cream Cheese Danish
Biscuits and Honey
Chicken and Waffle Sliders — Maple Blazin’ Red Gravy, Sweet Pommes Frites
Chef’s French Toast — Thick Sliced Bread Dipped in homemade Batter
Cherries Jubilee Pancakes
Stuffed French Toast — Brioche bread stuffed with Strawberry Cream Cheese
Marche Bread Pudding — Sweet and Savory Breads and Pastries garnished with chocolate and vanilla bean sauce
Not yet celebrating its Grand Opening, but offering full service from 7am until dinner on East Desert Inn, it was with two friends and two children that breakfast was had at La Rue Marche Café, and although the long history of husband and wife team Leslie and Jesus Cirbrian is an impressive one the wide ranging menu rooted in their previous years of catering shows as much room for improvement as does the touched up location, an immense space shuttered since 2009 that previously housed a Chinese restaurant.
Eventually intended to be a market, bakery, coffee roaster, and caterer in addition to the restaurant itself, one’s first impression on entering La Rue Marche Café is that despite a name that sounds ‘fancy’ the space itself is actually as simple as the location’s literal translation and although clean and well presented the overall feel is quite sterile with a lack of decoration, charm, or even music to help give it a lift.
Seated near a window where an elderly woman and two youngsters would provide pleasant service and copious refills with a smile even when the youngest diner cast a full glass of water to the floor it was with a tray of pastries that dining began and with two served warm from the oven while the others were cool to touch the results were unfortunately rather underwhelming, the cinnamon roll and croissant both far too doughy with a lack of exterior contrast while the pecan bun and cream cheese danish were far more enjoyable, though certainly not on par with any of Sin City’s best.
At this point temporarily turning savory, round two featured biscuits that, despite being described as made ‘in-​house,’ seemed far closer to those cut from a roll featuring the Pillsbury Dough Boy, and paired with little packets of honey instead of something a bit better sourced one quickly wondered about the rest of the restaurants ingredients, an answer to be found later after dissecting a plate of soft waffles and fried chicken tenders that were on their own good enough, but a bit obscured under thick gravy that purported maple but instead tasted almost identical to Krystal or Frank’s Red Hot.
Hoping for improvement as the meal moved back to sweets, it did not take long to cast aside «50÷50» Maple Syrup in favor of the good stuff brought from home before indulging in pancakes and French Toast, and with the latter a mistaken delivery since the stuffed version had actually been ordered it was unfortunate that neither version was all that impressive as the bread came off soggy while cream cheese stuffing tasted exceedingly artificial, the fluffy pancakes and warm cherries proving the first memorable dish of the morning with a light crumb and good rise surrounding bursting pockets of stewed fruit.
Waiting for late arriving friends to finish their entrees, but enjoying the quiet conversation as the space was largely empty throughout much of the morning, it was with a small bowl of bread pudding that the meal concluded and perhaps a sign of good things found outside the proper breakfast menu suffice it to say that this was the lone item for which a return trip to La Rue Marche would be considered, the blend of several day-​old breads reinvigorated by custard with a surrounding pool vanilla bean sauce that far outpaced any other sauce, spread, or topping experienced throughout the rest of the meal.
Certainly a place with potential, particularly given the team’s pedigree, the experience currently feels far more ‘catering company’ than restaurant quality and considering the challenges of the restaurant’s size, location, and scope there is a whole lot of room to improve. Obviously still new, but apparently not yet willing to invest in proper ingredients or technique to really make the product shine, one wonders whether it may have been the better part of valor for La Rue Marche to wait until they were 100% ready before opening up their doors.

Happy to have a new place to eat in the neighborhood. Great food and great coffee from accommodating servers. I look forward to trying more of their menu. An amazing addition to the area.