Les Cailloux — Restaurant in Paris

Much too expensive for what you get. The service was slow (food came quick after order, but waitress was hardly around when you needed her). The Spritz's (we had two different) had way too much water in them. Wines are very expensive and the one we had was not tasty. The starters we had and the pasta were okay, but far from special. In no way what you would expect for 15-20 EUR. Worst thing was the so-called "Tiramisu" (9 EUR): it was only a block of whipped cream with some cocoa powder on it - no finger bisquits, not a single coffee drip, no amaretto or the like NOR Marscarpone. How can you call a restaurant Italian, if it only sells fake Tiramisu out of the cheapest ingredients? Especially disappointed as there were so many other restaurants around which looked...

Nice Italian place located in the heart of Butte-aux-Cailles, the area which assembles a young, trendy and festive Parisian population in its many small bars and restaurants.

Menu is simple and compact, it offers some Italian classics.

The antipasto we ordered surprisingly had German red pickled cabbage in it.

I really liked Linguine cacio e pepe. Pasta cooked al dente, great sauce.

Tagliolini alla crema di limone e rosmarino has distinct lemon zest flavour to it, which I found slightly unbalanced.

Pappardelle all’amatriciana looked really good.

Wine list is well organised and split into stylistic categories for easy navigation.

Overall impression is good, but nothing I would specially return for or recommend as...

We’ve been going to this restaurant since 2020 as we live in the neighborhood. Regrettably, we always noticed a sloppy service and scarce coherence between the menu descriptions and the food we get. When we asked the waiter if we accidentally ordered a wrong dish, he confirmed that the dish was indeed the one we ordered but changes were made based on the ingredients availability. For instance, once we ordered a pasta with cime di rapa and yet we got friarielli. Another time, we ordered pasta with bottarga and lemon and we got anything but lemon. These changes in the recipes are not bad in themselves, however the problem is that no one told us about them when we ordered and had to find out that...