L'ATMOSPHÈRE

Plus restaurant, cadre rétro trop mignon, mais le service pas terrible, espace bouillant et surtout cuisine pas terrible, viande trop cuite, dure … plat du jour au mur depuis deux jours et pas « mis à jour » !
Dommage, potentiel mais pas passé un bon moment !

I ended up going to l'atmosphere purely for a time killing drink while I waited for a dinner reservation at another restaurant, and geez I should have had dinner HERE! Let me count the ways:

1. We arrive without a reservation and waitress #1 (W1 from now on) says there's no tables inside but she looks and notices a table might be freeing up in 10 mins. So she sits us down outside under the rain shade (it was raining) to wait. 2 mins later W1 motions from inside and our table is ready.

2. W1 takes our order of two happy hour cote de rhone red vin, and the place is packed. The attentiveness of W1 and the newly seen Waitress #2 (W2) is really cool to watch. They do not stop checking. It's like they're prison guards with machine guns patrolling the prison fence except instead of machine guns they shoot you with a refill of wine or beer.

3. We order the bread and cheese with honey appetiser ( €10) and the genuine happy to serve energy from W1 is so lovely.

4. There's a big glass punch jar with mysterious liquid in it on the bar and we ask W1 what it is, and she happily tells us it's a rum, lime and cinnamon cocktail and asks if we want to try it. We smile but say no thanks (mistake #1).

5. W2 checks how we're doing 5 mins later and says so funly 'be careful if you taste the rum because you will need an uber afterwards!'. (this is in english as well, which is so nice for us single language speakers).

6. W1 comes back 10 mins later and drops two free shots of the rum on the table for us. And it's damn nice!!

We only got an appetiser and wine, not a full meal, so I can't vouch for the main food, but the service was actually impeccable. The genuine joy felt in having us in their establishment was so lovely.

Visit L' Atmoaphere!!
Josh

Malpolis et désagréables

Une atmosphère de vieux bistrot top et de bons coktail en happy hour

Despite the cheeky cocktails that were available, this felt like a proper French café. All it needed was the whiff of Gitanes and you could be in another time... It was a cold and rainy day, but very cosy inside. Lovely place right by the Canal St Martin.