Rue Cler Restaurant

Snobby, unwelcoming, rude.. I would give this zero stars if I could. We attempted to go to the coffee shop part of the establishment 15 minutes after another friend had bought a bag of pastries there. The man at the door (with bad teeth, yet deliberately looking down his nose at us) rudely refused us entrance *to the coffee shop* on the basis that we did not have a reservation.

Reservations. To get coffee to go? 15 minutes after they sold someone else a bag of donuts to go, no problem? I see.

If you don't look like you're rolling in money, they will block you at the door and not let you in. We were wearing normal, nice clothes and were well groomed... but I guess we didn't reek of money. We also noticed that everyone there was white, without exception. Apparently they also deny entrance to minorities upon whatever pretext they can come up with.

I will never darken their doorway offering them my money again, I can tell you that.…

Time up. On a recent Saturday night we met friends for dinner at Rue Cler. Our Reservation was for 6:30 and we arrived on time. Started with cocktails, and talked while we looked at the menue. Our waitress explained how their menue worlked and we eventually placed our orders. The French Onion Soup was wonderful and our salads were good. We ordered the steak and a good bottle of wine to go with it. Everything was cooked as we asked and the wine was very nice. After our dinner we ordered desert and that also was good. We paid our bill and sat back with coffee and were having a nice conversation when the manager or head waiter came over and told us they needed our table. They offered to buy us another drink at the bar...which was extremely noisy and crowded, but we already had enough alcohol so we left. We had been there a total of two hours and fifteen mintues. Not sure how I felt about that , it certainly was the first time I was ever asked to vacate a table in a resturant.first time for all of us for hat matter. If the resturant has timed seatings they should have told us upfront,when making reservations or suffered through. I don't think two house and fifteen minutes from cocktails to coffee is over staying our welcome. Liked the food but left with a bad teast in my mouth.…

Could use some work. Our group of 15 were the only ones in this restaurant that unfortunately, appears to have been placed in a gutted fast food location and has no atmosphere, coziness, warmth or character. Very bare bones essentials.

The waiter, a tattooed, double large earing "man", ran through the menu as if he was practicing to do the auto sales disclaimer for a radio ad. That is, when they eventualy took our order which was by no means speedy.

The menu, true to form, was in French but ironically enough, even though I frequent Indian and Chinese restaurants, both realize that many do not speak Hindi or Mandarin and kindly may print in both the native tongue as well as English. Perhaps the owner of Rue Cler though that using English letters would be sufficient.…

most disappointing. Dinner was very pedestrian, menu a bit confusing, service very very slow, and the food was just not up to french bistro standards. My beef brisket was like a TV dinner and my companion's mussels were over flavored with strong lemon sauce. I do not intend to return…