O'Neil — Restaurant in Paris

Brasserie O’Neil is a nice brewpub which has decent pub fare and tasty house beers. It occupies the ground floor of a 5 story white building. The front facade is black with gold lettering. Outside is a single 2-person sidewalk table. The interior is a long narrow room with their 8-stool bar on the right. Behind the bar are illuminated shelves stocked with liquors. Near the entrance on the left is a tiled area with shiny copper brewing vessels. They are beauties and produce good beer. They have 5 house beers on tap, which are available by glass, sampler flight, or pitcher. These are medium bodied and taste great. In the back of the restaurant are dining tables and booths and on the right is a split level. Upstairs are a few more tables and downstairs is a windowed room of what appear to be open top fermenters. The place has a wooden floor, stone and brick walls and black wood beams up to the red ceiling. The staff is welcoming and friendly but can be slow. Their pub food menu consists of salads, burgers, flammekueche flatbreads, and a few plates. Overall, the best feature of the place...

I've made multiple visits to O'Neil the past 17 years (they've been open for 28), and the little brewpub consistently delivers. Typically there are just a few beer styles available, in a "typical 1990s American brewpub" mode: a blonde, a wheat (wit, in O'Neil's case), amber/brune, stout, and seasonal beer among the offerings. I gravitate to the darker styles, and the stout was a favorite this time, a little roasty, full-bodied, a near-perfect embodiment of stout. Don't expect any hop bombs here.

The menu offers a pile of flammekeuche, cracker-thin-crust pizzalike dishes with all sorts of meats and cheeses and vegetables fired on top, as well as salads and typical pub fare. These hit the spot on a drizzly afternoon of wandering...

Near the Louvre. Good service. Marco is a good host. The beer 🍺 Amber is smooth and light. Very refreshing. Brewed in house 3/5 points.

The flammekeuches are like a really flat pizza from eastern France. We tried the chorizo flammekeuches. Amazing! 5/5 points.

The pork ribs. Terrible recipe. The dish relies on the sweet sauce entirely. The meat itself is tasteless and dry. Feels like it was boiled then laced with the sweet sauce. It’s 0/5 points for the pork ribs.

Total overall this place is fun and has good in house beer and flammekeuches “pizza” that I will come back...