My boyfriend and I were looking for a nice place to go for a late night dinner and we stumbled upon Mominette. The friendly bartender greeted us the second we walked in (and somehow remembered me when I came in 2 weeks later!) and told us we were welcome to sit in the garden for dinner and he would let the server know we were back there. Garden? Whaaaat? We waited about 10 minutes for the server to realize we were back there (and my boyfriend ended up tracking him down and asking for menus).
Food:
Delicious! Absolutely wonderful. I have been back twice now, just for the food. The mashed potatoes are INSANE, asparagus covered in garlic and butter and a perfectly cooked steak. But, the mushroom truffle risotto was what made me come back. I craved it and when I came back for the risotto, they had taken it off the menu. I almost cried. Why, Mominette, Why? My steak was still delicious but that risotto needs to return.
Also, I have asked about the cheese plate each time I come in and each time I was told that they "don't know what's on the cheese plate but I'll go ask" and then when they come back, "we're not doing the cheese plate tonight."
Service:
I am a server so I understand that people are rude and usually demanding assholes, which takes its toll on any server. But some advice for the future: I wasn't sure who our server was. We had 3 different (not so friendly) servers coming up to us at random times and helping us. But their communication must have been terrible because we ended up having to order the same drink 3 times to our 3 different servers.
Overall, I will definitely be coming back here. The food is incredible and I'm such a bitch for a garden.
Terrible experience. We had a reservation and arrived on time. We were told to wait at the bar while they prepped our table. We waited 30 minutes. After seated, Â we didn't see our waiter for another 10min when he opened with "the kitchen closes in 5 minutes so if you're eating you better order now." my friends "medium" steak was still bleeding and my $16 burger was just a piece of beef between a tasteless bun.
To add insult to injury, they cranked the music while still eating to let us know it was near closing and then added 20% gratuity onto the bill. If we had been seated at the time of our reservation we would not have encroached on their closing time.
I've never written a bad review to any place before and I felt others need to be warned. I will certainly never eat here again.
Yum. Really wonderful brunch. I had Eggs Norwegian (like Benedict but with smoked salmon) and tried the Duck Confit. We also got Mac n' Cheese. All was delicious! But even better was the drink deals: first brunch cocktail $7, second one $1. I had two Bellinis and they hit the spot.
Gorgeous back area. With that said, I can't help but feel that this place is not so French. It does offer Croque Monsieur/Madame and delicious looking sweet crepes, but besides that it's just standard delicious Brooklyn brunch. Definitely a welcome addition to the neighborhood.
My favorite place for brunch in this neighborhood. The fried chicken, mac n cheese & kale (with garlic, bourbon, and butter) may be the best brunch meal ever. I mean really, I can never finish this, I always bring half home, and the food is delicious. Also, mimosa specials are great for a lazy weekend. I'll be back again&again.
Review Source:Food is great and filling, garden is awesome (I'm not a huge fan of the inside restaurant but I've always stayed outside), feels like home and service is super laid-back and friendly.
The dishes are simple and taste fresh, and we were pleased to see one of the cooks go out to the garden and cut some fresh herbs before going back to the kitchen.
I've only been there for a late lunch during a week day so it's always been really quiet.
Oh and the salad dressing reminded me of my grandmother's ;)
I don't know what the best thing about this place is, the adorable garden in the back or the food. My boyfriend and I came in for brunch seeing as this is right around the corner from his place. While it was hot, and there wasn't much shade in the garden, it was too pretty to pass up and opt to eat inside. I got the Duck Hash which was amazing. It had big hunks of duck and the potatoes were perfect. My boyfriend got the Eggs Norwegian with the most perfectly poached eggs. Well done poached eggs in my book defines a good brunch. The staff wasn't super attentive and other people who were sat after us got their food first, which was a tad annoying when you are hot and hungry, but I would still love to come back and try their dinner.
Review Source:You want a place with high quality bistro fare, in real bushwick, but not at odds with the community? This is your place. Gorgeous garden, friendly and down-to-earth staff, and unpretentious solidity. Cep D'or rose? Check. Cheap tall boy and shot special? Check. You can have any experience you want here, and that's why this is a place ANY type of person who lives over here can enjoy. So so glad my boyfriend found this place!!
Review Source:for the area, the food is pretty damn good... they have a solid eggs benedict.
unless you're planning on eating at the bar, expect sub-par service.
look, i don't ask for much when i dine in at a restaurant. just bring me my food in a relatively timely fashion (even with this, i'm not that difficult) and refill my water when you walk by and notice it's empty....
that second rule was apparently too difficult for them to adhere to. that being said, i would consider going back... hell, i've been twice! just don't expect too much of anything.
Bushwick restaurant week prix fixe? check.
I had a delicious 3 course meal of salad (w/mint, grapefruit, toasted coconut), beef medallions, and a fruity take on a trifled tirimisu for $24 as part of the week of Bushwick love.
My dining companions had risottos, soups, vegetables - everyone seemed to like their food.
I LOVED the handmade cocktails - Old fashioneds, whiskey sours, and house specials, all with freshly squeezed citrus and hand twisted zests.
I got one of the house specials, a  "take me home" - makers + passionfruit + chile de arbol - It was nice and bitter, which I like, but we joked that it was almost like the 7 stages of grief - you taste it and go through "I love this, I hate this, no, wait, I think I like this, no... actually, there's a kick to it that's kind of awesome... I need another sip!" - not for the faint of heart, for sure!
Second round was an old fashioned - which I believe they make with simple syrup instead of sugar (not 100% sure) - it wasn't my favorite - and I noticed that both drinks I ordered were lower in the multi-purpose wine/liquor glasses than some of my dining companions' drinks.
The house red was nicely priced and very drinkable as well.
Well, now that 2/3 of my review is about the booze (at a place that has darn good food), I think I'd better get off the computer and do something useful... like drinking a cocktail... or something.
Would never go back.
Terrible food and experience. This is really bad French food, if it is at all! The food is seriously bad. Their chef has no idea what French food is, period. I went with friends a couple weeks ago. The steak I ordered was well done, I asked for medium rare it had no flavor and tasted watery?! The girls ordered wine, it was undrinkable, the scallops were disgusting and covered up in a bad béchamel sauce, good scallops are not hard to cook, alton brown has a simple recipe that is million times better. The fries and mussels were decent, but then again how hard is it to cook those. On the plus side the ambiance is good. The service was terrible, the waitress was gone half the time and had to go and get her on a few occasions. I was there on a previous occasion and my girlfriend ordered French Onion soup, guys this is not French onion soup its water onion and cheese, just calling it that doesn't make it so. I figure that this is a place that someone decided they wanted to make a French bistro in Bushwick without ever having tasted good French food and probably hired a bad chef that told them they could cook French food. I suggest the owners/management try Le Barricou, this has a similar price point for food/clientele, etc. Though I can get a steak cooked decent there for 2 more dollars. The food there is solid and they could learn a lot from just trying good French food. They could also try Le Singe Vert as well. Good luck.
What started as a very promising neighborhood bistro has digressed into a confused french dance club. The first few times we came here we were sooooo excited and willing to overlook growing pains. Now that they have been at it for a while we are disappointed and confused by the addition of a DJ at night, the bartender who thinks its Bungalow 8, and the overall disorganization.
Our last visit my man ordered a beer, which they were out of. He then ordered a rum Daiquiri. We were the only diners in the place with a few folks at the bar. After 15 or so minutes we had no drinks and the bartender was busy chatting with his buddies at the bar, clearly not interested in making our drinks- we watched as our server handed him the drink ticket, which he glanced at and ignored. We asked what the ETA is on the drinks and our server told us that they don't have Daiquiris. So they don't "have" rum, lime, ice, a shaker and a sweetener? Rather than teach the bartender what a Daiquiri is we decided to order something they did have instead, a Margarita. We eventually got drinks after our food landed. The music was loud and a club crowd started to fill the bar area, not exactly cozy or romantic. The server seemed genuinely apologetic as he could tell we were having an annoying experience.
For Bushwick if you are craving french, the food isn't terrible, and the decor is cute. Definitely not worth going out of your way for. Be warned, the service is questionable and there seems to be no management. Also, stick with wine or beer (if they have it).
Hopefully Mominette can get it together, we want to love it.
Understaffed. My table waited for an eternity before a waiter took our order. And when he finally begrudgingly came to our table he was sassy. I had to ask what the specials were, since he didn't feel like telling them to us I guess. He said something like " Oh, I guess you didn't see them on the chalkboard inside." No shit sherlock, thats why I asked you. He then stated them from memory, cause it was no big deal.
We got the Muscles and Hamburger. Both came with frites/fries. And in both cases the portions were so small they seemed like side dishes for the fries. In other words you get a lot of fries and a shallow bowl of muscles, and super tiny burger. Small portions.
This would be fine if they charged half the price. Â But come on a $16 burger should be a great experience.
They also don't take credit cards which is a huge inconvenience to their patrons, and fucking annoying. A quilter in bumble-fuck Idaho can sell quilts at a crafts fair with a credit card device that hooks up to a phone and this lousy restaurant is going to make me leave to go find an ATM to pay? I guess its easier for restaurants like these to cheat on their taxes if there is no paper trail....
Went on Memorial Day. Â From the moment I walked in I knew I would like it. Â The bartender greeted us. Â They asked us to sit where we pleased. Â We opted for the patio since it was a beautiful day.
Service was great. Â The burger was SO good. Â Super juicy. Â We had brunch and stayed for about another 4 hours afterwards at the bar.
Felt like home.
I will definitely be back.
We've been here 3 times for dinner and I think the most recent time was the best! They re-vamped the menu to have plenty of veg small plates and sides which pleased my vegetarian bf and was tempting to me regardless.
Started with the cheese plate , which had great selections, but I wish they wrote the cheeses on the chalkboard so I could write them down myself b/c I really liked some of them. I have never interacted with anyone French here, which doesn't take away from the fact that I'm giving it 4 stars, but the douche in me wishes the pronunciation was a bit better. As always with cheeseplates, I think the portions could be a TAD more generous. Four dollars per 1/3 of an inch sliver? Also, I think they may benefit from reserving baguette bread for the cheese plates as boule style bread has a large soft inside to hard crust ratio, so it doesn't provide a good base for a cheese tasting.
We got the asparagus and fried shallots and goat cheese fondue, which was fun. My bf loves the French onion soup which the server had said was veg the first time we went two months ago and please don't tell him if that has changed. It is very cheesy.
My duck with polenta and green beans and red lingenberries or something silly was great! Almost worth $18 bucks but I really wish they would source their foods on the menu since the prices are equivalent to Northeast Kingdom and Cafe Ghia, who do source their foods. That is my main beef. It is expensive and prob merited it the last time, but I don't  know for sure.
Service was quite attentive and down to earth.
Maybe other Yelpers caught this place on a better night, but there were problems here. Escargot were delicious, but duck confit was fine if definitely overdone, and risotto was basically rice and sauce, if good rice and sauce....neither the consistency nor the promised truffles were there.
Also, service's slowness, even at an off time (6:45 p.m. on a Wednesday) nearly caused us to miss an 8 p.m. show at the Bushwick Starr. I'm sure they do better than they did for us, but we aren't going back, all the same.
I've been watching a lot of "Kitchen Nightmares" lately, and after working in food service for ten-plus years, it's long been a dream to go into restaurant consulting. I also just want to pop off. Just in general.
So what better place to start than at Mominette? It's a quaint French bistro located on a street in Bushwick largely populated by discount shoe stores, low-rent tattoo shops, and Chinese-food spots. So I was certainly excited -- "bloody f&%@ing excited," in Ramsay speak -- to find an eatery serving what I hoped was an approach to authentic French fare. And "authentic" it was -- in that prices were meh considering the general mediocre quality of the food.
My boyfriend got the eggs Benedict, a dish I generally avoid because I usually wind up disappointed. When it arrived, I was stunned at the lovely golden-orange color of the Hollandaise. Upon trying it, I noticed that in addition to its lovely spice, it tasted largely of mayonnaise. Yes, I know: Mayonnaise and Hollandaise are egg-based products, but this was NOT a velvety, buttery, slightly lemony Hollandaise and instead had a tang similar to its egg-yolk-based brother. I later realized -- the burger, another menu item I'd considered ordering but did not, had a harissa remoulade, and I wouldn't be surprised if this remoulade, slightly thinned, was pulling double-duty as a Hollandaise. Certainly the dish was still edible, and I actually enjoyed the spice, but Hollandaise is so important. If I were Gordon, I would have been angrily flailing my arms and asking the chef why s/he gave up on his passion. "Do you not care, mate?"
As for me, I ordered a croque madame, and it was fine. Nothing makes me happier than a cheesy, meaty, egg-yolk-y sandwich, though the cheese was a little overbrowned. However, both of our potatoes were bland, cold, and mealy, like they'd been large-batched and sat for a half-hour before being tossed on our plates. "Are you MAD? Why are these not made to order?"
Decor is also of the cheesy French bistro variety -- vinyl tablecloths and cheap-looking rag-rolled walls. But the back-bar shelf area is lovely, and I loved the charming swinging front double-doors.
Mominette has the distinct advantage of holding down the French-bistro market in Bushwick, and I just want so much for this locale to be better -- and perhaps their dinner service is the shining star. But brunch was a bummer, and there are a number of kinks that'd have to be ironed out before I'd return. Until then, I'll just make awkward, spasmodic arm gestures and point and discuss my concerns with my cat, yes?
Onion soup - very tasty, except for the fact that the crouton in the soup was burnt to a crisp. So it had an after taste of burnt toast.
White beam salad - excellent dish, mostly lettuce with marinated white bean
Watercress salad
Scallops and celery root gratain - very good, except that the bechemel sauce tasted liek flour.
Duck Confit with plolenta - very tasty, but they only gave me 3 strands of asparagus so it was not a very big portion. I even considered eating the massive sprig of rosemary they plated for garnish
All in all this is a good spot. we were told this was the chefs first night cooking there, so hopefully he can work out the kinks and slightly improve the food...
Nice staff, really attentive waiters, and great food. What's not to love?
Their coffee's not great, but otherwise, no real complaints.
I got their Salmon Gravlax, which was a few pieces of lox (smoked raw salmon) laid over some capers, topped off with scrambled eggs and some herbed cream cheese.
The lox was delicious, and the eggs were buttered well. Â
A very affordable ($12) nice early meal. The constant refills of coffee also did a great job making my hangover easier to deal with.
Oh and I just think this is hilarious, but their menu is on tumblr. Oh Brooklyn, keep staying hipster.
Oh, my, gosh....there's a French bistro in bushwick...
Save your money !
I went to Mominette the first week it opened and had a good experience it was cozy the staff was friendly and the food was ok, it wasn't great but it was alright and close to my apt so I was not opposed to going back.
Since i was last there they have gotten a Dj because nothing gives you indigestion quite like electronica blaring while you eat. But believe me you're better off not digesting your food.
I had some chicken dish with "mashed potatoes"
The chicken was dry and the potatoes were of that magical texture one can only achieve by 'just adding water' to a mix.
To be quite honest, I can't say I've had better food on an airplane because it was pretty much identical to a meal I've had on a transatlantic flight.
Last night after a fulfilling my tummy with great southern food, I was craving something sweet. SOO we found this cute quaint little French bistro. My first thought, oh my how cute and cozy. (what i thought was pretty cool was the dj in this place) NOTE: if you are going to a cute little French bistro PLEASE DO NOT BRING your annoying undisciplined child. I swear this child would not stop crying!!
Any who, I ordered the creme brûlée and an old fashion. The creme brûlée was DELISH!!! The fruits on tap gave it a nice touch. My old fashion was made to perfection (no complaints there). Also the flourless chocolate cake is great, seems like they add a touch of cinnamon.
In conclusion, the food and drinks where great but the annoying crying child made it a not-so-pleasant experience. Â
NOTE: its CASH only (pretty annoying actually)
How do you know that Bushwick is undergoing gentrification? There is a killer French restaurant in the middle of what used to be a very dangerous (don't walk around by yourself at night) kind of area. This romantic candlelit dinner place is a symbol of a new chapter in this area's history, and the food is quite good. Just a short walk from Knickerbocker and definitely worth the trip.
The service is attentive, but casual. It's easy to decide on your meal because the menu is short. I like that. No room for distraction.
They have specials written in chalk on a board, but the waiter read them to us since it was dark and difficult to read. We went for the vegetarian lasagna ($10) and the macaroni and cheese ($9), with a side of fries. Dinner of champions.
The lasagna was layers of vegetables in a red sauce, without noodles. Interesting twist on a classic, but it had great flavors and was still quite filling. The macaroni and cheese was a nice blend of cheeses that had me taking very small bites to fully savor it. The crust on top was crunchy and warm. In short, everything that you'd want from is kind of dish. Maybe a bit salty? I felt myself reaching for my water glass more than usual with this one. The fries were thinly cut and authentically French-y.
They have a brunch menu that looks promising, so we'll be back to check that out. Cash only, my friends. I guess they couldn't do it if people weren't willing to put up with it, but seriously. It's 2013. Get a credit card machine.
This place has hands down killer food! the Escargot is cooked perfectly i have has snails a couple times before and left feeling like i had just eaten a bunch of chewy snails... here it is tender and flavorful. Â Same goes for the Moule Frites, Duck Confit Salad and Mac n Cheese!
My s/o and i love to come here and order every app on the menu just because we can never decide.
This place opened up recently across the street from me, and we couldn't be more pleased. The only French/ American New restaurant around this neighborhood, and absolutely delicious. The menu is limited but varied, the wait-staff is very friendly, and the atmosphere is lovely; soft lighting, wood finishings, a long mirror across the back that opens up the space. There's a full bar and drinks are not very expensive. The pasta specials are somehow always perfect.
Downsides: Sometimes they seem to be understaffed and unable to handle how many people are coming in, slowing down service. Once a roommate reported cold food, but I have yet to experience this.
All in all, a big thumbs up.
I've been living in Bushwick for almost 2 years now (off the Jefferson stop to be exact), and all the happenings seem to be just isolated in Morganville. Don't get me wrong, I love Morganville and I'm a regular at most of the establishments there...BUT..
Lo and behold, there was a gem called Mominette. Off the Jefferson stop.. sure there are plenty of other places I frequent but Mominette is a completely different and unique place. French in Bushwick? Sure, and Mominette nails it. One of my many gripes about some of the establishments in the neighborhood is pretentious service and inconsistent food. Staff here are down to earth locals-who actually don't loathe their job. You can tell by the camaraderie and morale.
I've tried just about everything here, and although most people don't typically start off a review with dessert..I have an obsession with their flourless chocolate  cake with mixed berries and fresh whipped cream. I usually eat my feelings away, and have coping issues with food so you can often times find me here with a piece of cake and 3 glasses of wine.
What I typically like ordering when coming here with a new friend is:
Salade Mominette, duck confit, with mixed greens.
Tomato, Mozz, Sopressata.
Soup du jour, they have rotating soupe du jour all delicious and fresh.
Beef Bourguignon, hearty, packed with flavor with a side of irresistible creamy mashed potatoes.
Escargot, made with a tomato sauce served with fresh country bread.
Pastas, rotate and are HUGE portions. I've tried a handful and they are all delicious.
Mominette has an incredible wine list, I typically go for the Pinot/gamy. They also have reserve bottles that are perfect for  special occasions.
Also, try the Take me home (try to resist not singing the song while ordering) and Old fashioned!
And, here is my 300th REVIEW for Mominette.
There are some very good things about Mominette, but it certainly has its downsides as well. Â A classic French bistro atmosphere, dimly lit, jazz on the speakers and the smell of hot butter coming from the kitchen, this place has a lot of charm. Â
The food is good, but at these prices I want to know more about how they are sourced. Â There are restaurants nearby who serve similarly priced meat and they can tell you that it is grass-fed and/or local, sometimes even telling you where it is coming from. Â Whether or not you care about this kind of thing, the food should be priced accordingly. Â
The wine is decent and decently priced... until you see the glass in which it is served.  This is always the trick with restaurants.  Technically you should be getting 5 glasses out of a bottle of wine, so with that when you buy a bottle you are  saving a few bucks if the wine is priced appropriately.  With the Mominette glasses, I suspect you can get a good 6-8 glasses out of a bottle: not a good deal if you are drinking by the glass.
Finally, the staff is great. Â They are all really sweet, super young guys. Â Sometimes a little too eager to sell you another glass of wine or push you to order dessert after you have just eaten boeuf bourguignon. Â (relax guys, your customers will order what they want and will likely do fine without your cheerleading)
Mominette is absolutely adorable.
First of all, the ambiance is perfect. Not an ounce of the pretentiousness that often plagues French restaurants in New York (you know who you are). Instead, it feels authentic and welcoming. It reminded me of delicious little bistros in the south of France, but with a distinct Brooklyn feel. Music was good, light was streaming through the windows, our table was a bit wobbly. Our lovely waiter fixed it right away.
I went for brunch. My eggs benedict was excellent, mostly thanks to the amazing hollandaise. It was a rich, deep yellow, with tiny flecks of something (peppers?) that gave it a subtle heat. Not overpowering, but just enough to make it distinctive. French toast was good as well. The drinks (bellini and kir royal - standard brunch stuff) were OK, but just OK. Their other cocktails sound fabulous, so I would've loved to see a bit of flair in their brunch concoctions.
Oh and a quick note to the waitstaff, in case they're reading - I left you guys an abysmal tip by accident. I was so embarrassed when I realized. I'll do better next time - and I'll definitely be back for dinner.
PS. Cash only (waaaaah).
Most excellent. It's really nice to see something open up in the area that's authentic and delicious. Our server was friendly, prices reasonable. LASAGNA WAS KILLER.
The only down part was deciding whether or not we get the tart, chocolate cake, or creme brûlée. got the chocolate. LOVED IT.
I am not sure if I will come back.
Went for brunch again and ordered the Onion soup and a salad. I do not know what has happened but the soup was awful this time. The onions in the soup were white and raw, as in not cooked. The broth was just water, no stock, no sherry, brandy, madiera, red wine or cognac. Just water and raw onions with a crustiness and cheese on top. Â
It is quite possibly the worst onion soup I have ever ordered in my life. I can't imagine how or why a French restaurant would hire someone who can not cook french staples.
The salad. While it was a typical salad one gets form a bistro, the dressing was a little too acidic for my tastes. I suppose that is a matter of taste rather than culinary skill though.
I am not sure if the chef or the owners are regularly tasting the food but they need to start.
Mominette gets a second star because the waiter removed the items from my bill and offered me a complementary dessert. So thank you to the servers.
OMG you guyz, there's a French restaurant in Bushwick!
I was told this by my friends who keep trying to get everyone to move to Bushwick and I was like, "pshht, whatevs, I live in Park Slope. Our French restaurants have French restaurants."
But then I found myself there the next night anyway.
The ambiance is nice. The waitstaff is friendly, although service was a tad slow. At one point the busboy misjudged the fullness of a water glass, resulting in a wet tabletop, and there was some sort of hilarious mixup with the cocktail cherries but it ultimately got straightened out. These are the types of things you expect to happen at a new restaurant, and they were very sweet about it. They even comped my friends' cocktails due to the cherry mixup (the cocktails, incidentally, were yummy and inventive).
One thing that I really hope they'll change is the salt content in the food. Everything was too salty. Not "omigod, I can't eat this" salty, but "maybe-the-chef-should-stop-smoking-so-he-can-Âtaste-the-food-properly" salty. (NOTE: I have no idea if the chef smokes or not. This is just a theory.) We had the duck breast salad, fish special, steak, and mussels, and they were all really, really good, but just too salty. (So were the fries, but they get a pass on account of being fries.)
Once they lay off the sodium, I think these folks will have a damn fine restaurant.
My friends and I take Brunch very seriously. Â We don't do one on one quick brunches. Â We roll ten deep and take our time ordering, eating, chatting, and laughing loudly and embarrassingly while having highly inappropriate conversations. Â On the plus side, a lot of us currently work in or have worked in the service industry so we tip well and are very polite. Â On the negative side we're a bunch of freaks who shouldn't be allowed in public.
Things of note:
-I've waitressed brunch. Â Ten-tops are always a pain in the ass but the staff was so absolutely sweet to us. Â
-We were started off with pain au chocolate and croissants which was lovely.
-The Duck Confit Hash was hands down the best brunch I've had in Bushwick in the last four years. Â The potatoes were perfect, they didn't skimp on the duck, the onions were golden....it was spectacular.
-Though I didn't have any myself, I heard the coffee is good.
-Again, though I didn't have any myself, the hollandaise got rave reviews.
But the most beautiful thing was as we were sitting there after I'd finally finished my food (I am the world's slowest eater) and finishing off our drinks a waiter came around and started placing new napkins and spoons in front of everyone in our party.  Then another waiter came over with crème brûlée and flourless chocolate cake.  Just because.  And, oh man, those desserts were sublime.
We will most certainly be back next week. Â
And I will definitely be checking out dinner soon.
TL;DR - Brooklyn Brunch is serious business and Mominette brunch was out of control.
Another great addition to the neighborhood. Had a great meal, though I had the fish and it wasn't served as a fillet, but the whole fish. I think a waiter should disclose when you order fish and your going be served the entire thing- skin, fins and bones. Other than that everything we had was great. The steak was delicious, the macaroni and cheese was rich tasty and even the bread was good.
The only other thing is that this place only accepts cash and in a world where there are services like Square, I think its ridiculous that a place doesn't take credit cards.
I cant wait to go back and try and their brunch.
Really wished for a more enjoyable experience but service was surprisingly awkward and uncomfortable.
My friend and I arrived hungry and eager to try out this new place around 8pm on Friday after stopping by a gallery nearby. Had some cocktails which were delicious but once seated, trying to get the attention of our servers was impossible. It was difficult to request water and bread (which never came) and to enjoy the food when it came (onion soup arrived without spoon utensil). We were given an extra dessert and pointed this out, but a different server said it was for us so we assumed perhaps it was on the house. Turns out the table next to us had ordered the creme brulee. On top of that, we paid the check and asked for change. When change was returned, another server took it assuming it had been the tip.
We just couldn't wait to get out of there. Though the overall atmosphere is pleasant, the food was a bit disappointing, good but not done well enough to make up for the uncomfortable experience.
A sublime evening..... I can't wait to return.
I'm a cranky pants; especially when it comes to restaurants. Â Typically, I focus on the unassuming where I find the exceptional. Â I'm much more satisfied when I find the perfect Pho for $5.95 than when I'm served a mediocre $14.95 hamburger by a waiter who's idea of service came from time spent at the DMV.
My evening at Mominette was delightful. Â The staff were so warm and welcoming, it made it seem like they owned the joint. Â That's how much pride they have about the restaurant. Â
My girlfriend and I don't have enormous appetites, so we ordered a "little plate" of macaroni and cheese and an entree referred to as "Chicken Niçoise."  The mac 'n cheese was served in a mini casserole piping hot.  It was a mixture of several strong flavored hard cheeses.  It simultaneously satisfied the inner-child memory of Mac 'n Cheese as well as my adult palette.
The chicken Niçoise is essentially coq Au vin with olives.  It was delicious.  The chicken was supple and failing off the bone.  The sauce was perfect: rich in flavor, smooth as silk, and had the right shimmer.  I'd be shocked if it didn't start out as demi glacé.
Over coffee we had creme brûlée and a tart that assuredly were handmade, not from a vendor.
Mominette is a neighborhood gem that really should be cherished.
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