Le Bar a Boeuf

Great food & service - last min bite with a friend who had never been to La Bar A Boeuf. We had the Pumpkin Ravioli, Crab Cakes & Salmon Appetizer then shared the Short Rib Entree. All delish!We ordered:Pumpkin Ravioli stuffed with ricotta, sautéed spinach, oyster mushroom & thyme brown butterCrab Cakes with cabbage slawSalmon tartare with potato croquette, onion crème, radish, egg mimosa & frisée Short Ribs with parsnip purée, crimini mushroom, rapini, roasted carrot, caramelized shallot finished with red wine demi-glace - we specifically asked for the meat to be served separately

Excellent! Our dinner here last night was fabulous. After ordering cocktails - we ordered the Escargot and Salmon Tartare for appetizers. While we sipped our cocktails we were brought some French bread and butter to nibble on. It was quite good, both fresh and warm. The appetizers were awesome! The escargot were done perfectly and the salmon tartare delicious with the lemon dressing. My husband ordered the Steak Frites and I ordered a special - a Filet. They were prepared exactly how we asked and were excellent. The service was great too!

My Mr. was researching best French restaurants in the Cincinnati area. He wanted to take me out for early Valentines dinner. This came up and of course it's owned by Jean-Robert. So you know I was looking forward to that! It's located at the Edgecliff building. You can park in front of the building (which is limited) or in the garage.The view from the restaurant is amazing. Overlooking the hills and homes of Cincy. The inside is very cozy and inviting. Love the cow theme! My Mr made reservations on a Saturday night. We were seated right away. Top notch service! Our server was excellent! Very detailed and down to earth. Menu is small yet everything looks delish! So hard to choose! We ended up ordering:EscargotBernard Baudry Chinon Cabernet FrancPetite filet mignon (chef's special)Halibut (chef's special)Parfait (chef's special)All were specials for the night. I liked that Jean-Robert based the meals with The Cincinnati Bengals theme. Since they are playing the Super Bowl this year. Plus it gives us a reason to come back and try the other items on the menu.Wow! So we started off with the escargot. I was blown away! The garlic and lemon breading was amazing! It had great flavor. It paired well with the wine!We got our meals and I am in loss for words! The best filet mignon I've ever had because the sauce and the veggies that went with it. Comfort food at its best. It was like eating homemade roast beef but better. I had a taste of my Mr's Halibut and it was flaky and just melted in my mouth. I was even scraping the sauce on my bread! It was that good. At the end I wanted more! So I saved room for dessert. The parfait was divine! Next time I want to try the crime brûlée!I want to add that our server was nice enough to take our picture outside overlooking the Cincy view. Thank you!Okay... we are coming back! Such a wonderful experience! Everything was perfect!

A bit of an unusual experience. This restaurant felt much more like a private club, or a residential community dining room, then a fine dining restaurant. The decor and building were certainly dated but the service was friendly and the food was good. I have lived in France and eaten in many excellent French restaurants and although Le Bat a Boeuf was a bit uninspired, it was good. I am not sure that we will return as it did not feel special enough for the price but I am sure that many will like it.

Definitely a delicious experience in a beautiful space. We came close to sunset and had a lovely view of the river. There were quite a number of specials that the server ably rattled off- perhaps too many as we had a hard time remembering what ingredients went in which dish. It was little details like this that made the experience more of a 4.5 star experience instead of a 5 star one. Our table began with a special starter of short ribs, local grits, and shaved black truffles. It was beautifully sauced and flavorful with balanced truffle flavor. The plate was fully cleaned! We also had lobster Mac and cheese to share. Done in French style with silky sauce, any of the Mac and cheese choices would make a great main choice. My dinner was also one of the evening's specials- venison! I don't often have a chance for venison and it didn't disappoint. It was perfectly cooked with a nice sear. Sauces poured at the table were a nice touch. For dessert we had both the creme brûlée and chocolate pot de creme. Creme brûlée was good but standard. That pot de creme though- rich and decadent, it was a great ending to the meal.

My wife says to me "don't be to hard on them. It's hard to get enough staff these days". So, for this reason, I will compromise with three stars. But I have to say, there were only three servers for the entire restaurant on a Friday night. Our server had 11 tables and she was scrambling like crazy to keep up. She poured our wine then left a $56.00 bottle of Rose on the table with no ice bucket. We had to ask, and she finally brought one 10 minutes later. We were seated at 7:38 for a 7:30 reservation and did not order our food until 8:20. We had the surf and turf tartare, which was very good, albeit a little vinegar forward. The crostini's accompanying the tartare were a little to thin to stand up the the weight of the tartar so they kept breaking. The carrot ginger soup was delicious! You could taste every ingredient...so well balanced. The halibut special on tomato risotto, with bites of perfectly cooked zucchini and summer squash, was lovely as well, however our server literally plopped the dish down and left our table with nothing said. We just looked at each other in astonishment. We have been to the old Table a few times, and wanted this experience to measure up to that, but disappointingly, it did not. The food quality is there though, so kudos to the kitchen! And we did tip our server beyond 20%.

Went here recently and boy, was I disappointed. The place could be great, but my first sign that I was going to be disappointed happened the moment we got there when it was clear that this place serves a specific type of clientele. But the service was fine, the cocktails were good (though over priced), and the ambiance was fine if not a bit "old" at times. Where it totally lost me was the food. For the prices they charged and based on the fact that I have eaten at other Jean-Robert restaurants and have eaten quality French food my entire life, this was not what French food is and can be. Without reflecting on the specific items on the menu, it appears that there was an effort to stay relevant but with poor execution and limited innovation. Bland, boring, and lacking fundamental taste and French spirit was what we got. Even the desserts had some execution problems and the salads were focused on looks that taste or how to construct the best bites was lost.It wasn't horrible, don't get me wrong. Many people would love it, but for the cost and to be a good French-based cuisine this is not where I would take friends or family.

It makes me very sad to write this review. I wanted the rebirth of this once great restaurant to be a big success. Unfortunately I ordered take out this evening and it was a disaster. The food as not what I ordered and what arrived was very disappointing. I called them to complain and they told me they really were not set up for take out. I then asked them why they took my order. They said they would refund my money. Still waiting. Very sad. Such promise and such poor delivery of that promise

This restaurant is a treasure and checks all the boxes for what a great restaurant should be. No, it's not the fanciest restaurant. It's more of an upscale bistro. The cocktails are fortified, the wine list is not huge, but very acceptable and the menu is perfect! I was in town for a healthcare situation and I did not experiment. The first night I died alone at the bar and went directly to the French onion soup and the beef/tuna tartare. I finished it off with a Stinger. It was a perfect evening for me, and I always find that I see old friends and make some new friends at Le Bar a Boeuf!

extraordinary food at a price in an out-of-the-way location in EastWalnut Hills. Excellent wine list. Very crowded and noisy on weekends. be sure to make a reservation.