Café Paulette
French restaurant · Fort Greene
1 S Elliott Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Highlights
French bistro with steak frites, duck confit & organic wines
French bistro with steak frites, duck confit & organic wines
"Almost every Brooklyn neighborhood has a great French bistro, and in Fort Greene, that’s Cafe Paulette. Just under a 10-minute walk from Barclays and right across the street from Fort Greene Park, this is a quintessential dinner-and-a-show date spot. Seatings start at 5pm, so you can grab an early meal of bistro classics like escargot and steak frites and still make it to an event at 7pm. They’ve also got a bunch of natural wines with labels you’ll wish were available in T-shirt form." - willa moore, will hartman, bryan kim, neha talreja, hannah albertine
"Café Paulette is a Certified Relatives Restaurant, aka somewhere where your grandma will be able to hear you, and won’t be uncomfortable with how small the plates are. You’re here for the steak frites, so order as many of these as you’ll need (one order feeds two people, or one very hungry person and a grandma), along with a bottle of natural wine, and a few oysters. Outside, a younger crowd lounges on the sidewalk patio as if they do this every night (which they probably do), and next door you’ll find Café Paulette’s little sister wine bar, Petit Paulette, which is perfect for a pre-dinner glass of wine and funky cheese." - willa moore, bryan kim, molly fitzpatrick
"We find ourselves recommending Cafe Paulette often. The bistro across from Fort Greene Park is a quiet enough place to bring your grandma, a cute enough place for a martini and fries at the bar, and, perhaps most notably, serves great $40 steak frites. It’s heavy on the au poivre, and the frites are piled on top, so some of them take a sauce bath, while others stay perfectly crispy. Come with a friend, get a glass of wine and some radishes with salty butter, and split the steak. The portion is big enough to share." - bryan kim, willa moore, sonal shah
"We find ourselves recommending Cafe Paulette often. The bistro across from Fort Greene Park is a quiet enough place to bring your grandma, a cute enough place for a martini and fries at the bar, and, perhaps most notably, serves great $40 steak frites. It’s heavy on the au poivre, and the frites are piled on top, so some of them take a sauce bath, while others stay perfectly crispy. Come with a friend, get a glass of wine and some radishes with salty butter, and split the steak. The portion is big enough to share. " - bryan kim, willa moore
"Café Paulette is where you should eat steak frites with your grandma. The neighborhood bistro in Fort Greene is a Certified Relatives Restaurant, so she’ll be able to hear you, and won’t be uncomfortable with how small the plates are. Order as many steak frites as you’ll need (one order feeds two people, or one very hungry person and a grandma), along with a bottle of natural wine, and a few oysters. They also own the wine bar next door, Petit Paulette, in case you’re just in the mood for a pre-dinner glass of wine and funky cheese." - bryan kim, willa moore, neha talreja, sonal shah, will hartman
