Bidoche Oberkampf

This is my favorite place to eat in Paris. No kidding. I am a big meat lover and this is the best quality meat I have ever had. I been to countless places which are known for their meat (Argentina, Japan, etc.) and I live in America where we have access to some of the best meat from across the world. However, I have yet to have a better fillet than at Bidoche. The dry aged fillet is incredibly tender and flavorful and honestly quite reasonably priced. The service at Bidoche is very good. We came here two years ago and the server was the same person. He is very knowledgeable about meat and wine and makes fantastic recommendations. He is affable and funny. Needless to say the meat is cooked to perfection every time with a wonderful sear. I had my fillet blue last night and my father had it saignant and both were awesome but I would go for blue. The meat is so high quality that you should experience it in its pure form. They serve excellent sides and sauces included. The mashed potatoes and salad very are perfect. The fries are cooked in beef tallow, super flavorful. The appetizers are also of note. The mayonnaise (deviled) eggs are fantastic. The tar tar of beef is very flavorful. The bone marrow was a bit too fatty for my preference but delicious nonetheless. This is a good honest restaurant with simple but delicious dishes made from meat of the highest quality I have ever seen. The prices are quite reasonable and the service is very good. The presentation of the dishes is very nice too. Overall, Bidoche is a fantastic restaurant that I will eat at every time I’m in Paris.

Step inside and venture a little further, passing through their butcher shop to discover a hidden gem—their restaurant. The tartare and rump steak here are truly exceptional; they’ll knock your socks off and leave you speechless. This is, without a doubt, one of the best carnivorous experiences I’ve ever had. Thank you Christoph for your great service! I'll come back!

The restaurant is quite small, and it did get a bit too hot and noisy - understandably so, since it was packed. The dining area is hidden behind the actual butcher shop, so you have to walk through it to get to your table, which kinda caught me off guard when I arrived. The meat was cooked perfectly, and all the sides were amazing : the fries, salad, and purée were delicious. The fries, especially, stood out to me. It was a bit pricey compared to the competition, but overall, it was a good experience. Would definitely go back once in a while.

Fantastic. Love the concept of choosing your meat from the butchers. The cook of my food was great and the flavour amazing. The waiter is incredibly friendly and knowledgeable. Will return here again!

The concept is brilliant. A speakeasy for foodies. What can be wrong with that? Not a single thing. Seated in the back of this innocent looking butchers shop we waited our turn to tour the meat and choose our cut and size to feed our table. We all agreed in the same cut other than one who humbly chose an appropriately sized dinner while we took on the caveman role. Managed to fit in a couple great entrees and the potato sides were surprisingly good considering they lived in the shadows. Definitely visit if you’re a meat loving foodie!

Nice restaurant, waiters with a typical Parisian subtle friendliness, they told us when we arrived that they were tired from working too much and stressed and so they weren’t overly polite, but still rather kind, and we understood. Food was good, not excellent. I was here for my 40th birthday dinner and don’t think I will come back because it felt anything but special, lighting more like in a hospital than a restaurant, we couldn‘t even order a glass of champagne for my birthday, only bottle service was provided. Although I can say that its worth a visit, but its not a cozy place that you want to spend longer time in than for dinner, we ate as fast as possible and left. The service was fast and food came fast so we could leave all in all after around 45 minutes. I had expected a lot more. Worst thing here are the chairs that are more uncomfortable than at a kindergarden in the poorest Parisian suburbs.

Made reservations for 7:15pm on a Friday (20€ credit card payment required). I was the first one to enter for dinner service and everything went well. Good service, good food, no rush to finish the meal. I asked what was recommended and ordered the 3 meat plate (beef, pork, veal?) for 32€ which came with unlimited sides. As others have shared, the sides may be better than the meat itself (a lil stringy, fatty), but I still think it was a fair deal overall. I would recommend a visit at least once and maybe if you're part of the first dinner service, the experience might be a bit better.

Best is to get the minimum entrecôte thickness (around 450 grams) as it provides the best balance between the grilled surface and tender meat. The meat is of excellent quality and they know what they are doing. But the price for entrecôte is around 108 EUR/kg. This includes all the complementary sides and sauces. Which is nice. The selection of wines seems very nice. I would recommend the restaurant to buy sharper knives as it was at times hard to cut the steak with the knives we were given. Maybe serrated ones.

Poor service, server paid no attention. Forgot about our main dishes even after asking repeatedly.

This place would make a killing in Shoreditch. First off, the butcher side of things is like an art gallery for meat. I've never seen meat displayed like that, and now I can't help but think this is the style that should be replicated everywhere because it's genius. Now for the restaurant side - the waitress didn't speak much English, but understood some. The chap doing the butchery spoke better English than I did, and subbed in for the waitress to explain the menu and take our order. So yeah, we ended up with a crazy volume of food. We shared the beetroot salad to start, and then went for the butcher's choice of beef for the main with the accompaniments. We each had a piece of spider steak (one of the best steaks I've had period), a bavette steak and I think an onglet. All really good, but man, that spider steak. Amazing. You get three sauces and three sides to share, and if you finish them they'll refill them. You can also go out to the shop and pick out your own meat, paying €12 on top of the normal price for use of the restaurant and the sauces/sides. We will be back as this isn't far from the hotel we like in Paris and now I'm going to be talking about that steak till we get back there in a couple of years time!

I had my birthday dinner at Bidoche. In addition to the fun factor of picking the steak, we had a super intimate dining experience, a delicious bottle of wine, and an amazing pie made with fraises des bois. Part of the problem with most restaurants, and a problem in any great city (including Paris and San Francisco), is that often, the more you spend, the worse you eat. This year in Paris, and last, that held mostly true. This was not fancy, and it was so much better than most places we ate.

Amazing concept and experience! 3 of us american business men still talk about our experience there months after we dined at La Bidoche. I personally enjoyed the veal kidneys, cooked to perfection. My colleagues enjoyed aged prime bone-in beef, so tender that they could have eaten with a spoon..! Young and talented owners, great job guys!

We are from San Francisco, California and made reservations at this lovely restaurant after reading about it online. One of the best meals we had on our trip! Amazing food, great service, and ambiance. We come to Paris once a year and will definitely come back. Thank you, Chef, for the warm greeting and for the high quality food.

Excellent steak,wine and service.I will recommend this place to any meat lover. Very cozy place with a real French feeling