Café du Métro

Open late. We were here around 12am. The highlight for me was the hot chocolate. It’s must try. That’s all I’ll say about it. I liked the French onion soup even though it was more brothy then I’m used to. I had steak and fries. Nothing special. The steak was lacking in flavor, however a little salt, and the grilled onions they serve with the steak did give it some zest! We tried several deserts and they were all Good. I avoided sandwiches based on other people’s recommendations.

My friends and I were looking for a nice café for dinner, and we came across this one. The service and the food were really good. I ordered les pâtes with the primodoro olives sauce with a glass of chardonnay, and it was amazing. The street view was really nice, and it’s not a far walk from Notre Dame. There was also free wifi, which is always a plus when traveling. I definitely recommend this place.

Don’t come here. The food is awful, the service is uncomfortable and the people watching is OK. They served me a flavorless «sandwich» with 2lbs of cheap cheese with aluminum foil in the middle. I feel sick after taking a few bites.
The glass of red wine I got tastes like it has been open for a few days. Do not come here.

A fuir ! Service déplorable, long et mal aimable. Les cocktails n’en sont pas et on cherche l’alcool dedans. Les plats sont immangeables et servis en décalés, on né parvient même pas à dîner ensemble.

Sigh, it’s a tourist trap, and I knew this before I ever stepped foot inside. But it’s a tourist trap with a restroom, and well… sometimes you just gotta go.
Order the cheapest thing you can here if you must, then GTFO and enjoy the rest of Paris. Food is mediocre at best (I mean come on, the whole menu is in bad English) and the staff is meh.

So, where to start. Nice, convenient setting. Wait staff are a little rude (maybe over worked), Food is just ok, as is the coffee.

The people watching here is good (but how many street cafes does Paris have with _​bad_​people watching?), the prices are moderate (we paid € 18 for spaghetti bolognese and bruschetta), and the location is wonderful (right across the street from the Maubert Metro and a short walk to Notre Dame).
The waitstaff was on the inattentive side (my waiter forgot my order and a different waiter had to come up and ask if I’d been helped) but it wasn’t exceptionally bad.
It’s a good place to sit and have tea or a glass of wine in between other things, but I wouldn’t make a special stop here.

Dans ce haut lieu, il faut consommer avant d’aller faire son pipi !
Ca en dit long sur la politique de l’établissement: un sou est surement un sou ?
& Encore merci pour l’accueil !

BEWARE!
Had I written this review before today, I would have given this restaurant 5 stars. Recently we spent a lovely rainy Sunday here with friends visiting Paris. We had a great waiter from Central America. We paid twice because once he went away to lunch and wanted to settle the bill. But we stayed longer and ordered more after he returned.
A few days ago I realized one of my credit cards was missing. I called the bank and cancelled it. They verified that the last charge was at Café du Metro. I was relieved. We had been there. Great no bad charges. Today I got my replacement card and checked online. There were a total of 14 different charges totalling a little over 2000 Euros plus 7 other fraudulent chrges in Paris totalling about 250 Euros. I could see how someone may have found the card and used it at other places, but this was surely an inside job. Yes, I am at fault for leaving the card there. But an honest business with honest staff would have notified the bank or at least destroyed the card.

I’m the kind of girl who can’t start drinking early in the evening (in fear of falling asleep before the real night begins) so while friends are starting off early with glasses of wine and beer, I’m ordering a hot chocolate so I can stay awake when the real drinking begins. Thus, I’ve had many hot chocolates around Paris.
With that said, this place has the most magnificent hot chocolate ever. They serve it all day/​night on a tray with a vial of hot milk on one side, and warm creamy chocolate on the other, and a mug to mix it into however you please. They don’t serve it as powder in water like so many other places do. I’ve never experienced hot chocolate like this anywhere else in Europe or America in all my travels (except homemade) and would recommend it to everyone.
Their breakfast bread with butter is also yummy. But that and a hot chocolate together every morning won’t help you lose weight lol. The place itself is nice and on a busy corner where you can watch traffic and people go by. Great also because it’s literally right next to the Maubert metro stop.

Bistrot tranquille, très beau et très long bar. Une belle et grande terrasse.

RIen de spécial dans ce bar-​brasserie typiquement parisien de la Place Maubert, sans doute. Oui, sauf qu’il a le bon goût d’être un vrai bar-​brasserie typiquement parisien traditionnel, justement, ce qui, mine de rien, se fait de plus en plus rare. Ici, pas d’ambiance lounge galvaudée, pas de plats lorgnant vers la cuisine fusion faussement moderne. Non, rien que de l’authentique: plats de brasserie, serveurs en uniforme noir et blanc, bar en zinc, banquettes en skaïo et terrasse vitrée. En plus, ils ont le wifi (ça non plus, ce n’est mine de rien pas si courant que ça quand on cherche un peu).