Beef
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."

Orchard And Table

Orchard And Table

3266 NE Catawba Rd, Port Clinton, United States Of America, 43452

Full • Cafés • Seafood • American


"My wife and I recently had a childless weekend and we had never been to Catawba before. My wife had spotted Orchard through social media and we were excited to stop in for dinner. We live in the Columbus area and one of our favorite things to do is go out and try new restaurants. My wife had a cocktail, I had a couple glasses of wine. I had the wedge salad and a steak while my wife had sea bass. In short, the food was fine. My steak was cooked well, but was under seasoned. Our waitress was MIA for long periods of time, so I wasn't able to ask for salt. On the other hand, my wife's sea bass was so salty that it was barely edible. At the end of the night, we dropped $250 on an OK meal. To top it all off, the parking lot was packed when we got there and they were running a free valet service. When we pulled out of the parking lot after the meal, I heard a strange noise coming from one of the tires. The lot was gravel, so I assumed that a rock was stuck in the tread. It was dark when we got back to the hotel, so I figured on getting the rock out the next morning. That would have been great had it been a rock. It was a screw and the following morning, my tire was completely flat. Instead of being able to have time to drive over to some nearby nature preserves to enjoy a beautiful morning, I got to change a tire in a hotel parking lot and wait nearly two hours at a nearby shop to get it patched. Needless to say, this put a damper on what I expected to be a lovely weekend. I reached out to Orchard, not asking for anything, but to inform them of the tire situation and hopefully prevent other customers from punctures. They did not respond. In short, the restaurant is incredibly overpriced for what they offer, especially compared to high end restaurants in Columbus with similar price points. I'm disappointed that they never responded to my message. The whole Orchard area is overhyped and underwhelming."