Caractère de Cochon — Local services in Paris

Everything we saw on videos, read in the reviews, led us to this Saturday where we were prepared to wait in line for hours. I'm just kidding, not hours, but maybe 30 minutes, LOL. The line wasn't large, but the store owner only allows 1 group at a time, so you don't feel pressured to order something you don't want. The signature sandwich is the Jambon Beurre, a baguette smothered with butter and your choice of ham salted, cured, smoked from Spain, France, or Germany. If you want to add cheese, they offer sheep, cow, and goat. I ordered mine with Spanish ham and sheep's milk cheese. My wife ordered a cheese and butter. When talking with the owner, we purchased an additional 2 sandwiches for our flight home. I asked for the original Jambon Beurre, and my wife wanted the pastrami we paid and left our pick-up time tomorrow would be 11:00. Let's get to the meat of it, my sandwhich was Bomb!!! The baguette crunches, butter creamy, cheese sharp, and the spanish ham magnificent. Now it's Sunday morning, and I'm heading out to pick up the 2 for the road trip home. I showed up and there he was smiling and said, "Give 2 minutes. I want to package the sandwiches so you can eat them when you're ready on the plane or at home." When he came out, he handed me this beautiful package containing our sandwiches. She shook my hand and said until the next time you're in Paris. Let's just say we took them home and shared them with the kiddos, and they gave 2 thumbs up devoured both. Customer Service 5 Stars Store Experience 5 Stars Flavor 5 Stars Location Le Marais Don't take my word for it if in Paris stop by and grab one or two for yourself. You won't regret it!!!

Oh, and if you want to sample the hame or cheese, just ask,...

Had high hopes for this place based on the reviews but was greatly disappointed. Ordered two sandwiches. There was one man working there, asked him to recommend a sandwich and he refused, saying, "I would only recommend the most expensive one so I don't give recommendations." He literally made me pick my own ham (which I know nothing about) and my own cheese. That sandwich ended up being 27 euros by the way. But the worst thing is I ordered a raclette and frankfurter sandwich for my second sandwich (it's on their blackboard outside). Raclette is cheese. The guy told me to wait outside for our sandwiches and he would bring them out when they were done. He asked what type of cheese I wanted on both sandwiches (sheep's milk or cow's milk) so clearly there was no question the raclette sandwich should have cheese. So he brings out our sandwiches and we walk ten minutes away to a park to eat them and we open them up and the raclette with frankfurter sandwich has NO CHEESE. Yes, a raclette sandwich with no cheese. Absolutely horrible customer service and horrible experience and rather than recommending this place I will tell everyone I know...

Guys, I’m sorry but we’ve all been bamboozled by Instagram / TikTok influencers. We come to Paris yearly and had added this to our list of new places to try. First off, the line. They take 1 group at a time - the shop is very very petite inside - we had maybe 8 parties in front of us and it took 35 minutes for our turn. Before we left, the line had easily tripled in size. We ordered two sandwiches with the highest quality cooked ham, Emmental cheese, butter and cornichons (pickles). Total was 40€ ($44). We walked two blocks down the way to the park, and started on them only to find they had forgotten the pickles. C'est la vie, no big deal. In any case, we ate our sandwiches and they were completely mediocre. We would not return nor would we recommend to friends. Lovely owner but there is nothing special about this sandwich let alone the 20€ price tag. It’s a pass.

Also, I wish I had paid attention to how the owner responds to negative reviews. I don’t know if it’s actually the owner responding (who seems so nice in the shop), but It’s about as far from gracious as you can get and...