07/25/09

Make your own judgement!!

by MissParadise

I am from Quebec, Canada and we (boyfriend and i) went to bistro 110 for my first trip in chicago. We found this bistro cause my boyfriend comes from France and french foods are their speciality. We comes in and the waiter tells us there is a 30 minutes delay, so we seat at the bar and order drinks. They ask for ID so we show them driver license and health care card (both with pictures on it). They ask us to leave if we do not have our passeport cause it is the law and they do not accept anything else??? We ask them to show the written paper that proves it is a Us law to have passeport... They weren't able to find it written and they asked us to leave or they call the cops!!

Canadian doesn't mean I am from mars! And we changed for the restaurant I saw in jerome2's message, and all I can say is thanks Jerome for this wonderul suggestion!!

• Pros: Worst manners ever seen!!
• Cons: Not able to put any stars on this

06/14/09

Extremely rude service

by jerome2

Went there with my family on a Sunday night and we ordered drinks while waiting for our table. My brother got asked for a picture ID. He's 28 and lives in Canada, so he showed his driver's license (with picture) and another picture ID from Canada. The bartender refused to serve him unless my brother showed his passport, saying that a driver's license was not enough, and that a passport was required by law (???) We asked for the manager. Manager said it wasn't required by law but it was the restaurant's policy to ask for a passport if someone doesn't have an American driver's license. We tried to explain that a passport wasn't even required to cross the border from Canada (a driver's license is good enough), but to no avail. So we ended up going to another French bistro 5 mins away (on N State St.) with a much nicer atmosphere, great food, no attitude, cheaper price, and better wine selection. We'll never be back to Bistro 110.

• Pros: The location
• Cons: The attitude

01/08/08

It stank, it stinks.

by pupchen

Back in my second stint in Chicago, before it became overwhelmed by touristas from Indiana, Michigan and the hinterlands of Illinois, Bistro 110 was a refreshing respite from midwestern blanditude. But that was then. Before half the restaurant was taken over by a candy shop. Now it'

s my third stint, and I know now why I'm leaving, forever. This joint being one reason.

So, tragically, mistakenly, when a friend from those olden days, in from out of town, suggested that locale, I said yes. As soon as I entered the revolving door (revolving door????) I should of said "no". It stank of old fish.

Fast forward: the worst. oldest mussels I've ever, ever had anywhere in the world. Their once impressive baked garlic was nothing short of bitter. They actually told us we had to leave because they had to prepare for a party (we'd been there less than an hour). Good news: we continued our conversation at the Ritz Carlton bar (highly recommended); bad news: those poor fools who inadvertently evicted us had to eat their bad food, tolerate their bad service.

• Pros: unutterably none
• Cons: utterly everything