This vlogger does a great job of visiting five bouillons and showing how well you can eat for not much in beautiful surroundings (except for the Pigalle location)
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Chicago
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While the Pigalle bouillon is a plain room unless you are lucky enough to snag a table on the terrace, the food is IMHO slightly better than that at the Chartier Boullons. All are of course industrial food.
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Chicagoland
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Yes, they can be cheap and many Instagrammers love to promote the Bouillons. It's definitely an experience, but I'm not sure I would agree you can it well at Bouillons. There are too many wonderful restaurants at all price points to settle for mediocre.
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Chicago
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The food is adequate. It is 'airplane food' i.e. industrial reheated meals but some of it is decent enough. Not the best lamb stew in Paris but decent lamb stew; not the best choucroute garnie -- but recognizable; pretty good desserts. Adequate wine. Cheap, convivial and FWIW Paris is full of terrible restaurants with industrial food for 3 times the price. You rarely get a really good meal in Paris without research and without choosing a real restaurant with limited menu and usually a lot larger price than the places with mediocre food.