Populo — Restaurant in Paris

It used to be a cute place but now it's really horrible. I live around this café and I always admire the decoration. I recommended this café to a lot of friends. How sadly something horrible happened to me in this beautiful place. I was born with some abnormal vocal cords which vibrate 65 times per second. This means that even I speak with my lowest volume people might feel that I am singing the note C2. And when I have to speak louder it feels like I am screaming. This is considered as some sort of disability. I used to be very insecure and I got depression because of my voice. Thanks to the help of my psychiatrist I manage to speak in public place, while paying attention to the volume of my voice. A few days ago I brought a friend to this café,and our table was next to the bar. I admit that I should be more careful because this table might be next to the loudspeaker, as the music was really too loud for us. When I asked for the bill,with the music which was too loud to me, even I payed attention to my volume my voice was still louder than I imagined so the waiter thought I was screaming. He turned to me and said something but I couldn't hear him as I was too closed to the loudspeaker so I said I couldn't hear him. Again he thought I was screaming. Then he came to me asking me not to scream. Then I realized that perhaps I spoke more loudly than I imagined so I said I was sorry I didn't screaming I was born with this voice. This wasn't the first time I had this kind of problem and I always apologized and then explained my disability. People normally understood and accepted my apologies and there's even one restaurant where the boss stopped me from apologizing and said I shouldn't feel sorry for my disability. Unfortunately the waiter I met in this restaurant didn't let me talk. He screamed back:" Stop manipulate me!!!" And repeated a few times.I was horrified and I couldn't stop repeating that I didn't scream I was just born with this abnormal voice. I know I should let it go but I was also a victime of manipulation so I couldn't accept that someone accused me of that. And the waiter just kept going: " You're impossible." "Get out of this place and you won't be served again." Later I had to see a psychiatrist asking for help because that waiter reminded me my worst nightmare and I couldn't even sleep. I accused him of being racist in the restaurant for him not accept an Asian speaking. Perhaps I was wrong. He might be just too macho that he could accept women speaking. And he might be also too arrogant that he couldn't accept disabled people speaking. Or he might be racist at the same time... And as a disabled Asian woman, I shouldn't even exist in this world, how dare I go to public place and speak!!! When I said I was going to write down what had happened to me he said he didn't f*ing care. I feel so sorry for this lovely café. It deserves a much much better waiter. I will still recommend this place to my friends who wants to enjoy some time in a real Parisian café and take some beautiful pictures but I will also cross my fingers wishing that they won't meet the...

TERRIBLY UNFRIENDLY TO FOREIGNERS, BETTER AVOID IT.

I lived around this corner and this café has the worst service in the neighbourhood.

They have 3 prices even for a cup of café allongé: The barman told me 2.5e for take away and 2e drinking here, then I found the menu written 1.7e for “drinking at the counter” ( how ridiculous is it????)

Having asked if I can drink at the counter and pay 1.7e instead, he refused me and say, no you have to pay 2e because I already use the paper cup for take away to put your cafe inside.

Then I asked in the end if I can pay by card, he refused me again and say only cash, credit card minimum 7€ here.

I’ve visited almost every café around here and this is the only one that forced me to go out find an ATM. Oh btw they even asked to detain my identity card as a guarantee. For God’s sake of course I won’t do it, so they kept my...

THIS PLACE IS AMAZING! Friendly service in both English and French, and we had people in our group with special diets so it's hard for us to find a place to eat, but we could all eat here together. We wanted to practice our French and this was a great place for it. They also make everything to order, so that helped the folks with special diet needs. The best part was probably the main guy who greeted us when we came in and took care of us during our whole stay - his personality was a lot of fun and he has a great sense of humor. I 100% recommend checking this place out!! We had the veggie quinoa, the chèvre ravioli, and the duck, and everyone really liked their meals....