Restaurant Numidia — Restaurant in Paris

We saw many ads on social medias mentioning this restaurant, so we decided to give it a try, and…. We were quite disappointed.

First: the music. Raï is not the kind of music families are listening together while eating, especially with kids. I think it does not really fit what the place. Even if we like raï, it is just not giving the right atmosphere.

Second, and most important thing: the food quality. The soup, there was only Chorba, with meat inside. The smell of meat was too strong for us. The tuna brick, there was a very strong smell and taste, not sure what it was. We chose tuna as we couldn’t eat the meat from this place, yet the taste was really strong and not good. We couldn’t take more than 1 bite. Maybe there was an ingredient too old, not sure though. The vegetarian couscous, this is simply not vegetarian. So please change the name on the menu or do a real vegetarian.by the smell, I understood that there is meat in the sauce, but I also found some meat pieces in my plate, so it confirmed. This is the disrespectful for me, if I buy vegetarian, that means there is a reason why i don’t want to eat meat. Lying to people is the worst thing. Same as when people lie about halal meat, doing it with vegetarian stuff is as bad. Please change it because now it is a duty for us to say it, and protect people from being fooled. I think you didn’t do it on purpose but you don’t take it seriously while it is. It is our right to refuse eating meat and we should never be forced. Also one thing to mention is the vegetarian couscous for 2 was small. the tea, it was free so thanks, but just so you know, to please more people, it would be nice to put the sugar or honey in the side so that we choose how much we want in. This is just suggestions to please the majority. In conclusion, we didn’t like the food. But it could easily change if the menu was reflecting the reality. As at least we would have what we expected

Third: the service. It was good, at least our waiter was. He was kind, professional, and doing his best. He even offered us to remove the brick that we didn’t like, but we said no cause we aren’t trying to get discount. Still it was kind. But at the till, the atmosphere is quite different, the man at the till and all others are not nice, look at people in a pretty bad way. Honestly I don’t understand. We come to your restaurant to enjoy a moment and also because we prefer to give our money to support restaurant like yours, yet you don’t do efforts and don’t really care.

Very disappointed but we hope you will...

I love meat and I was craving for meat during our city break in Paris. we asked the gentlemen at the hotel's reception where we can eat good meat at a reasonable price and he suggested Numidia (which is 1 minute far from our hotel).

you literally choose the meat they cook for you (you just grab it from the fridge). the food was SOO good that we went there the next day as well :D the 2 gentlemen who served us were very friendly and translated in English their menu and showed us the meat, gave us the price for each of type of meat and brought it cooked in no more than 20 minutes.

on the 2nd day I also tried Algerian dessert which was very sweet and tasty.

I highly recommend this...

Catastrophique! Je ne recommande pas du tout. Tout commence par un coup de téléphone. Je les appelle afin de savoir s’il y a de la place pour couper mon jeune, et ces derniers m’affirment que des tables sont vides et que je peux arriver (j’étais à 10min du restaurant). Dix minutes plus tard, j’arrive et découvre un restaurant bondé de monde avec une queue pour rentrer. Pas du tout honnête pour des gens qui jeûnent et qui doivent au final attendre un temps indéterminé. Nous finissons par être installés à une table sale et même pas débarrassée. Nous attendons 20min avant qu’un serveur ne vienne car ils pensaient que cette table avec plats finis étaient les autres. Or, on n’installe pas des clients si la table n’est pas débarrassée et nettoyée. BREF, lors de la commande des entrées ils oublient la moitié des entrées et lorsqu’on leur dit, ils nous répondent « bah si Madame on vous les a ramenés » d’accord donc où sont les assiettes? Le minimum est de s’excuser auprès du client d’abord puis ramener le plat. Pas de boisson servie, ils attendent le moment du plat pour nous l’apporter… bref rien qui va. En une heure nous n’avions pris que l’entrée. Au plat, la viande n’était pas cuite. Bref, avec tout ça on nous offre le thé. Je me dis que c’est un geste gentil jusqu’à ce que je vois le fameux thé. Deux ridicules millilitres qui se combattent en duel dans un vert. Au moment de payer, on nous demande si ça s’est bien passée. Encore une fois, j’explique que ce n’était pas top et que j’étais un peu déçue, le serveur n’en a rien à faire et nous demande de payer. J’attendais seulement un peu de culpabilité de ce mauvais service mais non, c’est trop demandé. Si vous ne savez pas gérer autant de clients, gérez le flux. Je ne reviendrai pas et je ne...