Comments on: Café Rouge: Reviews http://blogs.kqed.org/checkplease/2006/10/26/cafe-rouge-reviews/ regular people review Bay Area restaurants Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:31:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John H Gruver http://blogs.kqed.org/checkplease/2006/10/26/cafe-rouge-reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-331 John H Gruver Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:33:30 +0000 http://mail1.kqed.org/wpmu/food/2006/10/26/cafe-rouge-reviews/#comment-331 One of the best places for pork (if it's on the menu, order it!!!!) in the entire bay area. The french fries are the best anywhere, and if you're going to have a hamburger, this is the place to get it. The soup is always top-notch! Plus, the bar stocks my gin, Anchor Distilling Junipero... YOM! One of the best places for pork (if it's on the menu, order it!!!!) in the entire bay area. The french fries are the best anywhere, and if you're going to have a hamburger, this is the place to get it. The soup is always top-notch!
Plus, the bar stocks my gin, Anchor Distilling Junipero… YOM!

]]> By: Rachel http://blogs.kqed.org/checkplease/2006/10/26/cafe-rouge-reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-330 Rachel Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:37:58 +0000 http://mail1.kqed.org/wpmu/food/2006/10/26/cafe-rouge-reviews/#comment-330 Wondering why my comment that I posted a few months back - which detailed how I got horrible food poisoning from this restaurant, was promised a phone call from the manager that never came - has been deleted? What's up, Check Please...? Can't handle the truth being told? Wondering why my comment that I posted a few months back – which detailed how I got horrible food poisoning from this restaurant, was promised a phone call from the manager that never came – has been deleted? What's up, Check Please…? Can't handle the truth being told?

]]> By: Linda A. http://blogs.kqed.org/checkplease/2006/10/26/cafe-rouge-reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-329 Linda A. Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:35:32 +0000 http://mail1.kqed.org/wpmu/food/2006/10/26/cafe-rouge-reviews/#comment-329 We happened to be at Fourth Street yesterday (11/18/06) and stopped at Cafe Rouge for lunch. The weather was lovely, so we sat outside at a table under an umbrella and watched the world go by. My friend ordered a Cobb salad, and I ordered the hamburger and fries - I asked for the hamburger with mushroom. Cobb salad was good, but on the meager side - one little head of butter lettuce, split in half with tiny cubes of pancetta, beets (?), and dressing. The hamburger was fine, overdone to my taste, but I was not sure how rare it would be so ordered on the done side (medium well). Medium would have been better. Burger came on a Kaiser Roll with a little side of pickled onions, and dishes of ketchup and mustard. (It's been a <strong>long</strong> time since I've been served French's mustard with a burger! That was a surprise) The mushroom was one grilled Portobello, plopped on top of the burger - also surprising - I removed it (at least it was only 50 cents extra) The fries were thin and there were lots of them - enough to share. HOWever, the kitchen needs to change its frying oil more often - the fries tasted very noticeably of fish. Total, for two, including one glass of wine each, $41. All in all, if I want a burger in the East Bay, I'll go to FatApples. We happened to be at Fourth Street yesterday (11/18/06) and stopped at Cafe Rouge for lunch. The weather was lovely, so we sat outside at a table under an umbrella and watched the world go by.

My friend ordered a Cobb salad, and I ordered the hamburger and fries – I asked for the hamburger with mushroom.

Cobb salad was good, but on the meager side – one little head of butter lettuce, split in half with tiny cubes of pancetta, beets (?), and dressing.

The hamburger was fine, overdone to my taste, but I was not sure how rare it would be so ordered on the done side (medium well). Medium would have been better.

Burger came on a Kaiser Roll with a little side of pickled onions, and dishes of ketchup and mustard. (It's been a long time since I've been served French's mustard with a burger! That was a surprise)

The mushroom was one grilled Portobello, plopped on top of the burger – also surprising – I removed it (at least it was only 50 cents extra)

The fries were thin and there were lots of them – enough to share. HOWever, the kitchen needs to change its frying oil more often – the fries tasted very noticeably of fish.

Total, for two, including one glass of wine each, $41.

All in all, if I want a burger in the East Bay, I'll go to FatApples.

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