I had very high hopes for Cafe des Amis. Mostly because it's 5 minutes away from my house and the menu looked so appealing. When you get there, it's a totally different story.
Let's start with the surly staff. We needed a table cleaned off and had asked for some help with that. Quite a bit of huffing and puffing about it and a fair amount of eye rolling. Sorry, we just wanted to have lunch here and pay you for it...
We ordered at the counter - 3 entrees in all to feed our family of 4. We ordered the mac and cheese (bubbling hot and delicious looking but very bland), escargots (also bland) and a breakfast entree (I don't recall what it was exactly). The food hit the spot (our family was really quite famished) but were not wowed by what we ordered and certainly not bowled over by the service.
We did end up ordering a Nutella and banana crepe after someone else next to us ordered a sweet crepe. This was by far the best tasting item we ordered and the best value, too.
Though this place is pretty close to home, I'll probably not be back. For what we paid, food and service just didn't add up.
The hunt for a French place in Pittsburgh continues...