Pierre Sang

Wonderful experience both for food and for the service. We chosen 5 course meals and the chef did not disappoint in any way. Every course was a delightful surprise. It was fun to taste the ingredients and the staff would come half way to ask us if we can guess what we tasting. We polished off every single dish I would highly recommend 😋

Our experience at Pierre Sang Oberkampf started off well, with friendly smiles and welcoming faces as we arrived. The cozy environment and delicious bread and butter made for a promising beginning. However, the rest of the evening quickly went downhill. The concept of guessing the ingredients with the waiter revealing them afterward was a fun touch, but it couldn’t make up for the overall experience. As an Asian couple, we found the food to be uninspired and lazy. While some dishes had elements of Thai and Korean (just slap some gochujang and call it a day), the starters were okay but ultimately forgettable. The fish dish was good, but a coconut-soup-like dish tasted more like a curry and wasn’t to our liking. The main course was chicken breast — probably the most tender chicken breast we had yet, however as mentioned before, the sauce and gochujang for this dish felt underwhelming and uninspiring. After mains, we were given a large chunk of cheese that we could not finish. Dessert was the star of the show: tasty pastry matched with a lemon-like sorbet. I’ll be honest: the food may excite some people, but it didn’t work for us, and that’s okay. Unfortunately, the service really let the evening down. We were given the wrong bill twice — first with 4 drinks instead of 2 — and waited 15 minutes while the waiter served everyone else (felt like we were forgotten). We were the last couple still seated for the 7pm session, and when we reminded him about the bill, it was wrong AGAIN, with only 1 drink listed (which we were nice enough to remind the waiter again).The entire process of settling the bill took about 20 minutes. When I asked what went wrong, the waiter blamed his colleague, saying he was “only a servant.” I was disappointed with that response, and I reminded him that they should take accountability as a team, not shift the blame onto one another. While the food gets an okay pass overall, the real issue was the frustrating service. The repeated billing mistakes and lack of accountability from the staff turned what could have been a decent evening into a disappointing experience. Unfortunately, we won’t be returning.

Had an excellent meal with friends here last night. I have been a few times and they do not disappoint. Great food and nice service. Helpful staff. Would highly recommend and look forward to next visit.

So when I read reviews and learned about the concept of a "blind tasting," I was intrigued. I thought it would be fun, and even when I arrived, the host made it sound like it would be. But in the end, the chefs were just pumping out the same plates to everyone, and there was nothing fun about it, more just lazy in a way? and/or just easier for them since they just had to do the same 4-6 dishes per service? It basically looked like the prep for a wedding/event, where they just have to serve the same dish over and over again to the whole room. Since it's an open kitchen, you can see plates of the same sad dishes coming out, the chefs just looked bored adding the purees to the plate in the same way. It didnt feel at all special, more like a factory process. But that's my opinion obviously, maybe some people like that? Perhaps this is a reason why most chefs are usually NOT customer-facing and behind a kitchen - it's not that entertaining, unless you have personality to match or something fun to show. Food-wise, the fish was bland and almost tasteless, the steak was a bit tough, and I think there was just no love in the food. The only Korean I tasted was the bibimbap sauce; I didn't really feel like it was fusion anything. Also, I saw one of the chefs scrape puree back into its container from a dish they had plated but didn't end up serving. The service was meh, average again. It was neither good nor bad, but it could have been friendlier. They just gave me my food and wine, asked what I thought was in the dish, and then gave me the correct answer. Anyway, for $40 euros, it was fine. It wasn't great, but is also doesn't deserve anything below an average rating (which is 3 stars on TripAdvisor). It was average, and average was fine for lunch—I needed to eat! But I'm always disappointed when I go to celebrity chef restaurants, even if I get a bit of FOMO and need to try it out!