Bijou Bistro

Best restaurant in Eau Claire! Menu was colorful and each dish was beautiful! Seafood ravioli was done perfectly and very tender. My husband had the lamb and it was melt in your mouth good!Got to meet Tony the owner and chef which was a pleasure and he is from our home town! Wonderful experience and we will be back many times!!You NOT be disappointed!!

Great five star meals! Had the pan seared salmon and mango chutney so delicious! My had the chicken breast with a fig balsamic sauce and roasted vegetables so delicious and shared a delicious crème brûlée for dessert. Felt underdressed as we stopped after running our shopping. We had a great server and enjoined the meal and our experience.

Amazing food some of the best camaraderie customer service is excellent you definitely get your moneys worth I would recommend this to any family

We have had a few people tell us about this place so we decided to give it a try. I have been told that it is a location for premium dining, and could never figure out why it was in the location that it was. We called ahead and got a table immediately. We ordered the stuffed mushroom appetizer which was basically button mushrooms breadcrumbs toasted with butters and some melted rubbery provolone on top. Edible, but tasted more like something you made at home in your toaster oven. My wife ordered the Thai peanut Pasta and I had the chicken marsala. I also ordered the six dollar upgrade Caesar salad and when it arrived was surprised to see that it was quite small. Upon tasting it, I was expecting a housemaid Caesar or something but it had very much the taste of salad dressing bought in 1 gallon containers. I reserved my judgment and waited for the chicken marsala. The wait times were very long and we waited for about 15-20 minutes between service. When it arrived, the asparagus topping it was about half the size in diameter of a pencil. The fingerling potatoes were so hard we could almost not cut them and the chicken was so rubbery there was no hope of cutting it with a fork. My wife's Thai peanut pasta tasted like the sauce came out of a grocery store bottle. While I really wanted to like this place, as Eau Claire badly needs upscale dining, I am quite definite we will not be back. I realize this is a bit of a harsh review, but when I spend $70 on a meal I expect it to be pretty good. I know of numerous other restaurants that I could walk out of for $30 and have a much better dining experience. Hopefully, the staff and management read these reviews and will up their game. Maybe they were short staffed or something. I really do want them to succeed.

By far this is one of the best upscale restaurants in Eau Claire. Best customer service, best ambience and the food is amazing every time. I've been here quite a few times. My very first time was for a 5 course meal, honestly everything on the menu is to die for. I will continue to support this local Resturant!!!! It's amazing, it's truly one of Eau Claire's hidden gems. Love love love.

Some of the best food I and my wife have ever tasted! The server made wine recommendations, and really made our meal special. The food? What can I say about the food? Everything complimented everything else, and it easily rivals the best we've had in Florida. Absolutely amazing and we would definitely recommend it to anyone.Our top choice for special occasions.

Fantastic food! We had our anniversary dinner here and it was delicious. The atmosphere is so personal. It's wonderful.

This review is for Tony Dragonowski (Bijou's owner) and his catering. My husband and I reached out to Tony to cater our wedding more than 6 months prior to our scheduled wedding date at the end of July. We found working with Tony to be incredibly frustrating and unacceptable when communicating in the months leading up to our wedding. Weeks would go by without any communication or follow up from Tony regarding the menu, logistics, etc. My husband and I had many conversations in which we debated cancelling for fear of how the service would actually be, given the complete lack of communication on Tony's part. The only reason we did not cancel is because he came recommended by people in the area and they assured us that things would be okay come the day of the wedding. Well, during the day of the wedding after he delivered our food, we heated each of the dishes with the chafer heating elements (per Tony's instruction) for over an hour and when we went to eat them, all the dishes were cold. We spent the next hour rotating each dish into the ovens in my husband's parents' home while everybody waited. It was a disaster. What made all of this even more frustrating is that this was the most expensive part of our wedding and we both felt like we just lit all that money on fire given how it turned out. It goes without saying that most of the food was wasted because it was cold and not good. I should also note that before writing this review we emailed Tony privately to see what he had to say. Rather than take responsibility for the poor communication and poor service the day of the wedding, he proceeded to make excuses and claimed that he had given instructions to people in our wedding party to heat the food in the oven prior to serving it. We were suspicious of this claim and so we spoke to everyone that Tony had interacted with and NONE of them said they were told to put the food in the oven prior to serving. We found this extremely hurtful that he would proceed to lie to us after everything that had happened. It was like adding insult to injury, hence why we are writing this review.We have never left a negative review -- especially for a small business -- but given the complete failure of service and execution we feel compelled to warn others of our experience lest they have something similar happen to them.

Enjoyed a date night dinner last night from our favorite - Bijou Bistro. Tony is such a phenomenal chef, and because this is during the Covid Quarantine, we got the special Smiling Curbside Delivery from both Kristen and Mike. While we miss the intimate dining room and table service, the food still rocks! (This is a small restaurant, where you are treated as friends.)While I often crave the lamb my wife prefers to vary. Tonight it was Chicken Piccata, Penne with Italian Sausage, Bijou's signature salads (always choose that upgrade), and of course the Chocolate Flourless Torte.One more word - we fondly recall one of our most memorable evenings - at the Chef's table with friends - a rare opportunity to witness the creation of the dishes and interact with the chef. We recommend it!

Nice, quaint restaurant that has delicious food and great service. From what I counted, it has tables enough to seat about 20 patrons in its narrow interior, but spaced enough to where it doesn't seem forced or crowded. Taste:We ordered the dumplings and bacon wrapped appetizers. Both were incredible. The bacon wrapped appetizer were bacon wrapped shrimp, chicken and Water chestnuts. Everything was delicious. Note to chef: you might have noticed I had some pieces of bacon on my bread plate after we left. This wasn't because it was undercook or not delicious, it had mostly fat on those small pieces. DINNER ENTREE:I had the steak and my wife had the salmon. Portions were very generous and everything tasted incredible. My wife loved her salmon entree. The cost was as expected. It's high end quality so you have to expect elevated prices (if compared to a regular restaurant) but not extravagant pricing. It's appropriately priced for the quality and portions. The menu online may not be the most current available menu as it lists January at the top. I was amped to order the espresso rubbed NY strip but that wasn't the option on the menu we were handed. I still had a steak option and that's what I got! You get a salad with the entree and again don't expect the size to be akin to a regular restaurant. The size was perfect as a prelude to our entree. The average person may turn their nose up on the size but with appetizers and the fact that we were there for dinner and not for just a salad, it was the perfect size salad!The rolls came out warm and fresh! They were delicious and the size was enough to tempt your palate for what was to come but not too big to ruin your appetite. I feel that too many drive by this restaurant without seeing them as they should. It's a small, quaint bistro that has great service, good atmosphere (music was a little too loud but that's a personal thing for me) and appropriate pricing. We didn't leave hungry that's for sure. If you're looking for a great place to enjoy a romantic dinner, of high quality cooking and great service, I would definitely recommend this Bistro. In the Midwest, it's hard to get across how great high end meals are when most won't leave or go on vacation where they would be exposed to its benefits, which makes this bistro a hidden gem. You want to impress your date?You want to take a loved one to a location that shows you out in the time to research a place that shows them how you feel?Then call and make a reservation because you won't be let down.