Noir Restaurant & Bar — Restaurant in Philadelphia

Overall - A-OK.

We went for East Passyunk Restaurant Week. The place is pretty easy to get to - appears pretty early in the East Passyunk neighborhood. I actually parked in the middle of Broad Street and walked down the two blocks on Mifflin Street.

The signage is pretty clear, and since we went for dinner at nighttime, there was decent street lighting in order to locate the restaurant.

Inside it's nice, traditional looking, with the bar to the left and small, hightop tables on the right. Once the bar ends, there's a larger dining space with small tables in the back towards the kitchen. The space is actually bigger than I expected and was able to handle a decent crowd during our night dining in.

When we first sat down, we were served bread to start with some olive oil and chili flakes to garnish. The deal was for a three course menu - starter salads/soups, a main entree (mainly pasta dishes), and then the chef's choice of dessert.

I ordered their roasted beet salad to start - I enjoyed this a lot! Along with the beets, there was a good mix of greens (arugula and spinach), candied walnuts, some cranberries, and a few fresh fruits to really build the salad. I also liked the vinaigrette they used - a strawberry infused dressing that didn't feel too heavy and complimented the salad well.

For the main entree, I went with the ricotta stuffed gnocchi. It was the only veggie friendly option on there which was a bit annoying. It was cooked in a fresh red sauce, but I felt the flavors were a bit bland. I added chili flakes and tried to make it more to my liking but it wasn't helping.

The options for dessert were all cakes - chocolate, cheese, and tiramisu. Everything had egg in it, so I passed on trying anything. Since it's included in the price of the Restaurant Week deal, I packed the dessert to go so I could share with someone else.

The service was great. Our waiter was sweet and talkative. She refilled our waters plenty, and also let us know about the wine deals they had going on that night.

I'm glad I tried this place but given the limited options for vegetarians, I'm not keen on...

Party of four there on a Monday night. I guess the chef is different on Monday nights than the rest of the week because I don’t understand how this place has even one good review. This is not Italian food. This is gross, low quality and rancid. Either the anchovies that they use in their Caesar dressing were expired or They scraped the slime from the dumpster behind chickie and Pete’s to make the dressing. Gross disgusting I spit it into my napkin. My entrée was cavatelli sausage and broccoli Rob. Left on the heat lamp until the edges of the pasta were dried out. Tasteless sauce if you wanna call it a sauce which was really just whatever moisture had made its way to the bottom of the bowl.Rancid low quality or expired sausage that that smelled so badly. I took one bite and left the dish. The waitress looked down at it and asked if I wanted a box I said no and she didn’t ask if everything was OK. How could you not looking down at an entire plate of food. The pasta Bolognese look like hamburger helper, and a blush sauce. To which one bite was taken out and left. Again, we weren’t asked how the dish was. Chicken Parm served as a stack and wasn’t good. The pasta on the side was white and dried out and obviously not finished in the sauce. The sauce that was there it was about a tablespoon full laid on top. This is Passyunk Ave you better come real deal Italian. what we got was an absolute disgusting abomination that tasted like it was cooked by the dishwasher in dishwater. Again I don’t know how this place has any good...

I needed a little time to process what happened here because it was genuinely shocking and disappointing.

I came in for my birthday brunch with my boyfriend two weeks ago. We asked if they had the mac and cheese we saw in one of the reviews (it looked amazing). The server said they no longer made it, but kindly offered to put it together for us since it wasn’t too busy.

When the dish came out, it looked great. I had a few bites—maybe four—before my boyfriend stopped me and asked, “Is there meat in this?” We hadn’t been told there was. When we asked the server, she initially said there was no meat. But when we showed her a piece of what clearly looked like white meat, she responded, “Oh, that looks like our crab meat. Enjoy!”

I’m highly allergic to shellfish. I had to leave the restaurant immediately to find Benadryl and try to manage the reaction.

The server did apologize, but that was the extent of the response. There was no follow-up, no offer to comp the meal, and no visit from a manager. I’m still not sure if the server was the manager, but either way, the situation was handled with very little care.

When you add ingredients—especially something as serious as shellfish—it is absolutely essential to inform your guests. This could have resulted in a medical emergency.

We took our food to go out of respect, but after that experience, everything went straight into the trash. It was a waste of money and left a really bad taste in what should’ve been a...