Cafe Pistou

5 Reviews on “Cafe Pistou”

• Kiran Kishore

  Lovely place, incredible bottomless brunch deal (8 for the drinks). I also had the French toast with bacon and vanilla mascarpone, it was wonderful! Great and friendly service, too 🙂 theswindian.com

  January 10, 2017, 7:26 pm

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• Sugandha Srivastav

  Pretty over priced for what it is. Couldn’t help thinking that for these prices I could be eating much better food elsewhere. The decor is nice but it still doesn’t compensate for the lacklustre dishes.

  February 16, 2016, 6:55 am

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• Ainura Asanova

  Yesterday’s evening desserts after spending the whole day in the library. Cafe Pistou is a very cozy place with french simplicity in the nooks of Finsbury. The waiters are very friendly and fast as usual in London. For the main I ordered baked sea bass in white wine butter sauce & tomato compote. It was nice, but nothing special. What I cannot say the same about the desserts. They are very delicious and very-very special So we ordered:The Pistou – charcoal roast plums with blackcurrant, vanilla mascarpone & blackcurrant sorbet. Served with a caramel & pine nut crisp & basil sugar.Fig, honey & almond tart with honey ice-cream & creme fraiche.They are just cosmic!

  November 4, 2015, 8:52 pm

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• Gdg

  French-ish tapas dishes. Great service, great food, great place, great prices, great atmosphere. The place is perfect for a quick lunch with a friend or a relaxed lunch with a client.

  October 14, 2015, 12:19 am

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• Jeanne-Marie B

  Exmouth Market has welcomed a new restaurant: Caf Pistou. I am always very happy when a French restaurant opens in London, as I am sometimes homesick especially for food.Caf Pistou is all about South of France, especially West with classic provencal dishes.When my friend and I arrived at the restaurant, the team was very welcoming. I really liked the classic decoration with different chairs and the brick wall painted in a light green-turquoise colour.We were seated on a small table by the window.We started our meal with a plate of sliced Bayonne ham with Comt cheese to share with a glass of red wine. ‘So French’ you must think…YES but it is so good!The bread was very nice and served slightly warm, probably homemade. If not, it is a nice touch to warm it first (tastes better). My thoughts when I ate it was,that I would like to be able to find a baguette like this every morning at the corner of my street.We shared one of the light bites: Barbajuans, dishes from Monaco which literally means uncle Jean.I am very easy to please when a dish involves goat’s cheese. I love goat’s cheese so much I often have some slices for breakfast too!The dish was very nice, the wontons were crispy and tasted light considering they were deep fried. The sauce was very sweet with a little kick with pepper. It really goes well with the melted goat’s cheese curd.The Provenal Sheperd’s pie dish was nicely presented, the ratatouille was topped with a spiced feuille de brick and served with chickpea pure. It was a good ratatouille. The feuille de brick added a crispy and spiced dimension to the dish. It was a good dish but I would have preferred it with more ratouille and less chickpea pure. I didn’t think the chickpea bring something special to the dish.The spatchcocked poussin was my far our favourite dish of the night. The chicken was moist and tender with crispy skin. Razz-el-hanout spice was well balanced with the yogurt sauce and the sweet and sour apricot.The lamb was well cooked, slightly pink. It was served with pistou sauce. The dish was nice but nothing special compare to the poussin.Both desserts were very good and well executed. The pistou dessert was very refreshing and fruit was tart but sweet.The creme brule was very nice and had the perfect sugar caramelised on top.Overall my dinner at Caf Pistou was really pleasant. Food was good. All the spice and ratatouille reminded me my holidays in Provence in the middle of the garrigue with cicadas sounds. Only disappointment was the way they organised the service. Food comes as soon as it is ready. I don’t really like this concept as you always end up with too much food on the table and most of it cools down. The lamb cooled down while I was eating the poussin… The experience would have been better if the service was a bit more slow.They recently opened so they are probably still trying to adjust to the rhythm of service and cooking, depending on the number of covers.Hopefully the service will be more organised for my next visit.7/10. jeannemarieb.com

  April 14, 2015, 5:19 pm

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