Cafe Rouge

superb food and staff

Seriously how can Cafe Rouge survive in such a competitive market? the food is below average and the staff iOS miserable.

I took a friend to café rouge in Reading oracle for dinner. We waited a short while to get some service, when my soup arrived it was cold, then the main course of lamb shank with mash potato arrived, that was cold too, The reason we didn't ask to take it back was because we were very hungry and chose finish our meal. I have been to café rouge many times and I was very disappointed at the service and the food. I feel now as though I will not be going back to café rouge in the future.

visited café rouge at Cheshire Oaks, had a lovely meal, the waitress, was very good, cheerful, interacted, and told us of new items available. Also had a glass of Preseco because it was my birthday.

Would recommend to family and friend, and would go again when visiting the area.

Went to the Reading branch on Wednesday. Paid 5p short of £9 for a supposedly 3 egg cheese omelette with a pathetic number of French fries. When the omelette arrived it was barely the size of half a small tea plate and flat as a pancake. So much for the filling lunch I was hoping for. If it was 3 eggs, they must have been quails eggs or, more likely a couple of squirts of the liquid egg these places tend to use & they cut the amount used to the bare minimum. As for the cheese, I had to eat half the omelette before I found any at all & there was so little that "plain omelette" would have been a more apt description. The cost of the raw materials for this was pence. I used to visit the Windsor branch often but had noticed this one also was progressively getting worse. Perhaps new management with a policy of ripping off customers who then go elsewhere, like me from now on. Avoid if you want your meal to be the same as the menu description

Attempted to have tea for 2 at Café Rouge just outside the O2 arena yesterday afternoon, after seeing the Dalai Lama, as my companion had back pain and needed to rest a while. I usually find Café Rouge venues offer consistently good service, food etc - not this one!! When we arrived the manager(?)/waiter told us he'd be over to take our orders, 20 minutes later he still hadn't. My friend attracted his attention, he replied 'yes sir' then walked away again and didn't return. The restaurant was fairly empty when we arrived, the manager spent all his time seating people (as it was getting busy from people leaving the event) but in all that time not one order was taken by either the manager or the 2 other staff on duty. My friend and I left after 35 minutes, having still not been asked for our order. Thanks Café Rouge O2 for the chance to sit-down, and free use of your toilets: tea and cake would have been nice but we weren't prepared to put up with your appalling service any longer!

We visited Cafe Rouge Leicester three times during the Christmas season and then for my birthday at the beginning of January. We tried several different meals, i.e. turkey, duck and steak during these visits. All were delicious.

We can definitely recommend this restaurant, not only for the wonderful food, but also for the staff and surroundings. We met several different members of staff, all very caring. The manager  was lovely, so helpful and knowledgable about the different meals and the wine. Everyone made us feel special.

Thank you, we will be back for more.

Time spent sadly too long in Cafe Rouge Exeter, before we gave in and left still awaiting dessert! on not a busy evening. Our evening went dramatically downhill after the starters which were good & hot. Followed by over a 50 minute wait for our main course....we had all 4 of us ordered the ENTRECÔTE steak (med rare & med cooked) with french fries & etc side salads. I'm surprised the lovely waitress wasn't embarrassed serving the food to us, the fries looked & were stone cold hard as if they'd been standing around for sometime? Sorry looking piece of grey steak, again luke warn overcooked and truly chewy - we all have our own teeth. I guess one tomato constitutes as side salad with a slice of chopped onion? green salad was green - about 15 leaves... Fries were refreshed, which were fine and we ate those after we had eaten our steaks. Dessert yes please 3 creme brulee's & chocolate Fondant. 20 minutes later - sorry no creme brulee's at this point I'm thinking we should have left at the main course...benefit of hindsight! reordered different desserts, restaurant is pretty much empty at this point, 15 minutes later still no puds and its 10pm.............we gave in & asked for the bill. A sad end to an evening which we had all been looking forward to with my parents in the lead up to Christmas!

mistake selecting the fix price menu , very disappointing

food was edible ,

watery sauce on the pasta, not buttery.

avacado and bacon salad- bacon anaemic-

chicken in bread crumbs with roasted new potatoes and herby salad turned out to be , chips, watery salad, iceberg lettuce a few tomatoes and sliced radish ?

Service was fine and food served quickly ,

Food quality on fixed price menu disappointing ,

I absolutely adore this restaurant. The staff are so pleasant and not at all annoying (asking hows your food while you have a mouth full). They notice you as soon as you give them eye contact, very quick service. The food is always done well. This is the only restaurant in Lakeside that is worth going to, just because of the amazing service.