Bistrot - Bar à vin La Boutique des Vins — Restaurant in Paris

Beautiful tourist trap; avoid. Wines are mostly from large industrial producers like an airport duty-free shop. We specifically picked a wine bar so a person in our party with mobility problems wouldn't have to change venues between drinks & dinner. Hours on their own website say service until 22:30. Hours on the door say service until 22:15. Called to reserve: "we'll be 3 people at 20:30 for a glass of wine, then two more will meet us for dinner at 22:15" "very good" Repeated when we arrived. At about 20:45 they announce kitchen is closing in an hour "ok, we'll ask them to try to come earlier" at 9:45 we say "can we have another chair please, our two additional people are arriving in 5 minutes" "sorry, the kitchen is already closed" Waitress & chef left at 10:00 sharp. I suppose covid & restrictive French labor laws are the root cause, but please don't take a reservation if you can't actually serve your clients, & please update your signage, website, & Google...

Edit: The owner is obviously lying. Who would be this stupid to „steal“ a drink and then comment on Google, lmao. We literally took one sip before returning our drinks. Worst „Aperol“ Spritz with even worse service personell.

We ordered Aperol Spritz but what we got was literally 50% water (not even sparkling water) and the cheap version of Aperol from Aldi, which was bitter as hell. After letting the waiter know our drinks tasted flat and bitter, he arrogantly explained to us that this is how „Aperol“ Spritz is supposed to taste - I would say we know how Aperol Spritz is supposed to taste, but this was simply disgusting. Not...

Be careful with Google reservations - you can't book dinner, only tapas. for tapas, they will put you in the basement and will explain for a very, very long time that dinner is ordering real food for at least 20 euros per dish, and tapos (snacks) are an unworthy reason to seat you at a normal table.

the waiters, even for Parisians, are terribly rude and instead of a simple “sorry, we’ll try anyway,” they will explain to you without a break for 20 minutes how it is that you didn’t understand their booking rules

Meh doesn’t worth it never...