Bijou Restaurant est un établissement convivial. L'ambiance de ce restaurant est décontractée. Elle vous propose, entre autres, un stationnement. Bijou Restaurant est ouvert tard tous les jours de la semaine. L'accès est aisé par transport en commun. Les moyens de paiement acceptés sont MasterCard et Visa.plus...Plus de texte
I would just like to post a review of Bijou to correct any misapprehensions that people might have about this wonderful restaurant, especially given the - one - bad review posted above.
Bijou has wonderful food and usually has terrific service. My wife and I have eaten there almost one dozen times in the past three years. Never once have I regretted it.
Let's put it this way; I have enjoyed foods at Bijou that I never normally eat, like tuna (yuck, right?), beets (blagh!) and others. Well, at Bijou these items are delicious because of the chef's incredible sauces and flavouring.
Yes, the menu is on a chalk board and maybe it is difficult to see sometimes, depending upon your seating position. Persons with moderate intelligence or better will get up and walk towards the chalk board, or will ask their server to read off the menu. Yes, the restaurant may be noisy, but a restaurant that is full of patrons is a good sign, isn't it?
My wife and I have eaten in some of the finer restaurants in Toronto, Montreal, and in Paris, and Bijou is one of our favourites.
If it's open for our anniversary next month, we are going there again.
The decor and service are impoverished, but grab...
The decor and service are impoverished, but grab a smart cocktail and settle into some conversation and the food will overwhelm with its unpretentious presentation and flavourful notes, temperatures and textures. Prix fix with considerable latitude for choice. It was easy to overlook a scant wine list when the food required no further accent.
Pretentious! The restaurant maybe the best kept...
Pretentious! The restaurant maybe the best kept secret in Stratford and the food OK if you can put up with all the oddities that do nothing to enhance your dinning experience. The entrance is tucked between two buildings and the end of a parking lot. The buildings look defunct and there is not a sign of the restaurant unless you are standing right in front of it. When you enter, the open kitchen and poor ventilation will meet you with greasy smells that will permeate your dress and you will smell like working a shift there (so much for the theater after a dinner experience). The chalkboard is a joke. You cannot see if well from all the tables and you end up standing in front of it trying to decide. I saw this concept in pubs but the boards were few on had few, simple dishes. The restaurant is small and when busy the noise level will approach a sport bar level. So goes your conversation. And the food? The food was pretty good but all the distractions and annoyances spoiled our dinning experience thoroughly. Never again.
