Le Petit Paris

Nice escargots and canard a l' orange experience. Their bar is in a separate room which also serves as a waiting room. A nice touch for winter with a nice environment.

Well, expected a warm, intimate evening based on what we had heard about LPP. Shortly after sitting our threesome, the waiter informed us that "there are a ten top and an eight top coming so I need your orders right away".

Nice intro to a bistro.

Food quite good. Constant pressure to remove plates. Forgot second wine order, dropped off cheese plate without telling us what the cheeses were. Asked the owner to tell us and his response, " did you you ask the waiter "? Really... Is not that his job?

Really want to like this place but given that it was not that busy as the ten top and other group showed up as we were almost finished, the service was terrible.

Oh, if you are a local political pol, they take care of you.

The decor and ambience were simple and classic, I thought overall it was charming.  We started with frog legs in Provencal style and they were very good.  I'm guessing it was Alain that greeted us and cracked a joke, he was nice enough and we had no complaints about service.  We had the French onion soup, which had great flavor although we prefer the puffed pastry style.  There was a steak special that evening with Bordelaise sauce which was absolutely fantastic.  Really a phenomenal steak.  The pommes frites were also delicious, great flavor on their own but when ordered on the side they come with a truffle aioli which was of course great.  Wine list isn't great and many wines on the wine list are over priced, mostly they are the high end wines, but we found a Cotes du Rhone in the right price range and it is a very nice wine for $30 something.  Our bill was around $75 with tip and considering that included a bottle of wine that's great.  When I return, I will ask what their corkage fee is and bring my own bottle.