Fell below expectations
In summary its the sort of food you'd get for the fixed price lunch at many value-end Parisian bistros, for about half the price.
Its a very small restaurant, not without charm but you're very close to your neighbours which might not make it the best choice for a hot day. You get a limited choice- 3 each starters , mains and desserts. the menu changes every day so you won't know till you walk through the door what today will bring. Service is pleasant enough without there seeming time to be positively friendly, but we felt a little slow between courses.
Having read a few reviews we did expect the food to be better. The courses were appropriately sized and certainly nothing was inedible. But nothing of the five different courses we chose today was particularly well flavoured , and its pretty basic stuff . The joue de boeuf we both had was pleasantly soft and gentle but had little flavour , and that typified the meal- decent textures, poorly flavoured. Also, my wife points out that for a restaurant that changes all its dishes every day it might not be too much to expect the menu to reflect the climate. Even if our food had been tastier it would still have been a winter menu served up on a warm August day.
The bill for 3 courses , a bottle of a decent red from the lower end of the list , one coffee and service came to £100. Now that's not a fortune but we did feel that it was expensive for the quality of food we ate and the environment in which we ate it. Given a choice between this and paying maybe £10-£20 (at most) more at say the Boudin Blanc in Shepherd Market, we'd take the latter every time for better choice, a much more comfortable environment, and more flavoursome yet still bistro style food.
Can't see us rushing back I'm afraid. And doesn't this area miss Zucca!