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Papillon

Papillon

37296;37300;37320 Mission Boulevard, Fremont, 94536, United States Of America

French • European • Papillon • Steakhouse


"We went with my husband on May 7, 2022 to celebrate his birthday since he likes French cuisine. The place has nice parking and beautiful flowers outside the restaurant, we really liked it. The interior seems like a French house interior from the last century. Nice details and decorations, a bit not in my taste since I prefer more modern designs, but definitely underlining French personality of the place. We were seated at a very nice spot with red chairs, by the door to the outside part of the restaurant. Our table also had a fresh orchid flower and a candle, which is super nice and creates romantic atmosphere. Now onto the food. I decided to order 4 appetizers, while my husband had 1 appetizer and a main dish with French Onion soup on the side. We both ordered baked brie with jam it was really amazing, tender, flavorful, served at just the right temperature. I highly recommend it. French Onion soup had extremely rich and dense flavour, was nicely served and I am ready to order it again and again. I ordered salmon carpaccio, and I was a bit disappointed since it was just a plate with smoked salmon, an egg, capers, and onions. I was expecting to have raw salmon meat which carpaccio typically is. However, I may have not paid attention to the dish description maybe it said that salmon is smoked, so that is on me. After appetizers were served we unfortunately had to wait for about an hour to get the main dish and the remaining two appetizers. That's why I gave 4 stars. It seemed like there were some issues with making the main dish which was short ribs and timing everything to come together. We made that conclusion because when the dishes finally came, short rib was juicy and hot, while my appetizers were pretty cold and no longer as enjoyable. So the short rib was on the Special's menu and was tender, juicy, a bit crispy on the outside and had nice flavor to it. We shared the short rib since my appetizers mushroom ravioli and mussels were cold and pretty much inedible. We ordered desserts, and again it was a bit of a mixed experience my husband got Affogado, and I got the Papillon Cheesecake with strawberry sauce. Affogado was amazing caramel, chocolate, ice cream, and espresso flavors are combined into a wonderful mix. Our server said that people order it often. My cheesecake was a bit weird since the eggy flavor of the cheesecake did not seem to work well with the sourish strawberry jam. I acknowledge it may be only my perception of flavors though. I would go with Affogado next time. I also want to mention that because of the waiting times we spent about 2.5 hours, and because of our seating location by the door we both got extremely cold. We had a really nice server who brought us hot water and different tea options so that we wouldn't be just sitting and freezing. It was really nice of him. He also apologized when we explained that my appetizers were cold overall it left a nice impression of the service. Well, we went in the beginning of May. I bet if you come in June, you won't have any issue being cold."

Allegria Italian

Allegria Italian

8 E Welsh Pool Rd, 19341, EXTON, United States

Pizza • Pasta • Italian


"We went to Allegria in Exton based on their recent advertisement in a local magazine in which they advertised their entree price range between $16-$20. In reality their price range well exceeded $20. We had called in advance to find out if there were dishes for children ours ages 7 and 12), and were told that simple pasta dishes were available. The menu included spahetti with marinara sauce at $9.95) and pasta with oil and garlic also $9.95), and Rigatoni with shrimp and vodka sauce $19.95). We asked for spaghetti with butter for our son and asked if we could get rigatoni with vodka sauce for our daughter no shrimp). We were told yes to the vodka sauce rigatoni, but at 6 p.m. on Saturday we were told they were out of spaghetti. So we ordered rigatoni with butter for our son. When we got the bill after dinner we questioned the full charge of $19.95 for the rigatoni and shrimp with vodka sauce since our order did not include shrimp and the $15.95 charge for rigatoni with butter, and we were told that it didn 't matter that we ordered the rigatoni without the shrimp that the price was the same and that $15.95 was the price for rigatoni with butter. Needless to say, we were grossly over-charged for simple pasta dishes and the veal dishes that my wife and I ordered were $25.95 and were only O.K. For a BYOB where we had two children 's meals with milk, two adult meals, shared one appetizer and shared one dessert we ended up spending $140 before a tip. Our tip to you is to go somewhere else. We felt cheated by this restaurant and will never return. We can eat far better at a lower price at many other restaurants in our area who are more concerned with customer satisfaction that this over priced BYOB."