Comments on: CafĂ© Rouge: Reviews http://blogs.kqed.org/food/2006/10/26/cafe-rouge-reviews/ Restaurant Reviews by Bay Area Foodies Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:48:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Rachel http://blogs.kqed.org/food/2006/10/26/cafe-rouge-reviews/#comment-7313 Rachel Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:37:58 +0000 http://blogs.kqed.org/food/2006/10/26/cafe-rouge-reviews/#comment-7313 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/food/2006/10/26/cafe-rouge-reviews/#comment-221 Linda A. Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:35:32 +0000 http://blogs.kqed.org/food/2006/10/26/cafe-rouge-reviews/#comment-221 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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