Les Acolytes — Restaurant in Paris

My sense and experience of this place is opposite the reviews. Hosts felt hostile, hostesses super friendly. 100% of tables around me ordered "French" Hamburgers. If you go - maybe try that!

I had the soup (felt like baby food), fish (nicely-grilled but drowned in off-putting sauce - milk, peppers and pineapples?), champagne (a tad flat), coffee (bitter and astringent), and lemon merengue (aged, tough and stale). Overlarge portions, well-presented visually but bland and incongruous taste-wise.

Go in a pinch but otherwise avoid. There are SO MANY better and more historic food experiences out there....

Enjoyed this bistrot very much. It's remarkable how much more pleasant the experience becomes when you get a menu with just about 6-7 main course options for you to choose from. All of them are beautifully prepared and are absolutely delicious. Oh, and for dessert, you'd have to ask the waiter, because it changes and is not on the menu. The atmosphere is relaxed, subdued and very cozy, with soft bench seats and a bar, where a few old-timers just have fun sharing a drink and sing along to the tunes of the music. Overall, a nice place to spend your dinner time together with a couple of...

We had a very nice lunch at a very nice restaurant. Paris is really cleaning up nice squares and Les Acolytes are lucky with an upgrade. The dark dirty road is being changed into a light stone. The traffic will become less and hopefully the lovely terrace will become a bit bigger. The trees will get a much better setting and we hope the complete view from the terrace and the restaurant will improve.

With a very good filled Caesar salade we enjoyed looking at the workers and took the noice for granted. The people are really nice and we will certainly return to look how...