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| - Bam! That's how excited I am to write this review. I've had Cafe Du Jour bookmarked "To Try" for over a year, and I'm angry I haven't come sooner. We had one of our best dinners in the 'burgh the past two years.
It was sold to me as a French Bistro - but it's really not. None of the items are classic French comfort food, such as a coq au vin, duck confit, pate, or other type of items. I think it falls in the New American cuisine. Correction, it is delicious New American cuisine. Soy-glazed meatballs ($10), pork, apple butter and brie crostini ($10), fennel rubbed pork chop with crispy kale($24), chicken breast stuffed with feta and spinach ($24), are some of the items that I can recall.
There isn't a website, and the menu you can find on allmenus seems to be a lunch menu, and outdated. I wouldn't let that deter you at all - you just have to trust your fellow Yelpers who rave about this place. I do disagree on the $$ designation. Two people with 2 apps, 2 entrees, 1 desert, and a cork fee was $86 (and $100 adding tip).
Now, it is small, or at least while the patio is closed. 8 tables or so, and only 4 staff it seemed. One host/waiter/runner, one chef, one sous chef, and an extra hand. The pace between our courses was a bit longer than usual, but it didn't really bother me like it usually does. The staff is working hard, and you can see it, and the food is so good I didn't really care. And as mentioned elsewhere, BYOB with $2/stem.
This restaurant needs to be the next place you go.
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