Parked my rig outside and popped in the Oasis for some Keftab Kebab at the Aladdin's…read more After finishing my Kebab, my attention was redirected to this Serbian Creperie Food Stall named Crepe Ave. Best decision ever. Ordered an Avacodo Turkey Crepe...thing is HUGE. The combination of Pesto, thin sliced turkey, Spinach, Avocado and fresh mozzarella is such a good blend. Just never had anything like it before sandwiched in Pancake Batter. Enjoyed their Latte no sugar, perfectly executed Caffe Latte. First time having Serbian influenced food by a husband wife duo! Chefs Kiss a worthy detour entering and exiting Illinois & Indiana at the Lincoln Oasis Service Area.

The absolute best čevapi / chevaps in all of Chicagoland.. not loaded with baking soda and rubbery…read morelike many others.. They have a seasoning that I can't quite place.. anyone know what this seasoning is? They buy them from somewhere else, does anyone know? They're fantastic! In fact everything else I've tried there is also delicious..

Amazing crepes. The food here is wonderful. We've been here multiple times and it has never…read moredisappointed. The owners put up speciality crepes too. The drinks are delicious as well. When they have it get the biscoff crepes. So good! The ambiance is laid back and quiet.

My friend & I visiting this store on a Friday afternoon. The gentleman at the front counter was…read morevery friendly & helped us understand the crepe building process. The crepes were delicious! And so we're the iced lattes. The environment was very clean. The wall art was gorgeous. This is a great spot to go when you want to switch up your breakfast or lunch routine.

Ambiance - decor, greenery, lights, indoor outdoor feel…read more Food - bursting with flavor; unique selections You can also dine outside. No screen rules - makes an enjoyable eating, screen free time

Nice cafe style. You order at the counter…read more He crepes were good. Soft and big. The drinks we got were okay. I got the strawberry matcha lemonade and it was meh. Needed a little more flavor. Only issue is that it was super slow. Took forever to get our order.

Super cute restaurant. Feels very cozy. Got the chicken curry crepe and it was salty! If I wasn't…read morewith people, I might have complained but it was borderline fine. So...not sure the food is good. I just happen to think the attitude is a little worse. Came with a group and someone in our party ordered the French Onion Soup and then a Croque Monsieur. No one else in our group ordered a starter. What's weird is for some reason they decided to course the soup with everyone's mains. Normal restaurants, including like....your local suburban Chile's, know not to do that but this place thought that was normal. So already, my friend is a course behind everyone because they didn't serve his starter first. What's worse is when he finishes his soup...he doesn't get his main. We actually FINISH our mains and he still hasn't gotten his. He makes a comment VERY NICELY to our waitress like hey! Just wanted to check on my meal! She responds, "all our meals are timed perfectly." What!! My buddy goes, "Okay...I've just been waiting for 15/20 minutes so I think I'm ready for my sandwich." She responds, "okay....let me alert the kitchen." Wait? You didn't even tell them he needed his meal?? We wait another 15 minutes. We flag the waitress again and ask where his meal is and she responds "everything is made to order so the kitchen needs some time." Okay. This is a Croque Monsieur. Are you....rising bread right now? What is happening? So I get frustrated and jump into this and say, "Ya but we've been waiting over 30 minutes for his main. We've all finished so now you're asking my friend to eat alone." She responds, "everything is served hot so what is the problem??" !! I get annoyed because up until this moment, we've been pretty nice. But this waitress not acknowledging any issue or trying to make it better and talking back to us like this is weird. So I just say, "Bring a manager over." Well...it didn't matter. This lady learned her attitude from somewhere and it was probably from the manager. The manager immediately is on the offense like, "you ordered a soup and we wanted you to have the soup hot. And we want your next meal to be hot. We make everything fresh and we clean our dishes in between." The heck? All we want is for my friend to be able to eat his main. So I say, now rudely, "just bring the food. We have waited 30 minutes now. Everyone is done with their meal. If you haven't made it, cancel the order and we'll go somewhere else." She responds, "we usually serve the starter first. If you didn't like that, then don't order a starter." SERIOUSLY!? What is happening!? I think about telling her that USUALLY even if only 1 person has ordered a starter, that gets served first before EVERYONE gets their mains TOGETHER. Instead I say, "listen, cancel the order or give us the food but we aren't waiting any longer." And she goes, "we can't cancel it. The kitchen has been working on it." So I say "this better be home baked bread because they've been working on it for 45 minutes by now." IT STILL takes another 5 minutes to get this meal. It is cold. It is an average Croque Monsieur. And they probably all spit in it. At the very end, the waitress comes over and says, "I see what you mean and there were coursing issues but we take pride in our food and we weren't going to degrade that so we could serve you faster." This place literally lives up to a Parisian stereotype, I guess.

BLUF: Delicious & filling. A must…read more Food (4/5): There's a huge selection of crepes. Savory & Sweet! We got the Boeuf bourguignon, Suzette á la Germain, Poulet et fromage de chèvre, and another sweet one with Nutella and bananas. The Boeuf bourguignon and Suzette á la Germain were great, though the Suzette á la Germain was a bit hard and chewy. Kind of like it sat in syrup too long and started carnalizing. The boeuf was packed with flavor. Now, I'm not a goat cheese person. I hate it. My fiancé got the Poulet et fromage de chèvre, and it was disgusting. He liked it, but I thought it was appalling. There were no other flavors but goat cheese. These are huge portions. Not normal crepe portions. I don't recommend getting 2 crepes like we did or you will feel like a whale. They're the size of a normal dinner plate. Service (4/5): Our server was great. She did not work there, and they had only one other staff member working. She was extremely timid, so we didn't like bothering her for more water. Ambiance (4/5): It was HOT. There was no breeze & no AC (that we could feel) & the (dusty) fans were not turned on. It was dark in there to create a cozy ambiance. There's indoor and outdoor seating. We ate inside since the outdoor seating in the back was completely packed.

Tiny little spot located in downtown Clarendon Hills. The menu is pretty large with a mixture of…read moresweet and savory crepes. They have a small variety of drinks as well. We visited on a Saturday morning and it was very busy. There is seating for about 12 people max. I felt the plate the crepe was served on was a little small. The crepe I ordered had a lot of mayo on it. Staff was super friendly. Street parking right across the street. If you like crepes, check this place out. Some of their choices are meals and others are a dessert crepe.

Came here for the first time. With Sparrow coming in, LC moved up the street a bit. It's a small…read morelocation with limited seating. If you plan to eat here, arrive early. The crepes are okay. I ordered the Bed & Breakfast. It's overloaded with eggs and cheese (this is good!), but I'm not sold on the sauce. After each order the cashier asks if you would like to give gratuity to the staff. I think they do that because there's no customer facing terminal? They write down the order, and then manually enter prices inro the POS.

Out here in deepest Suburbia, sometimes things present a vaguely Disneyesque artifice, where, if…read morethe fantasy world was more advanced, "Quotation Marks" would appear magically in the air around buildings (and, alas, people) indicating irony should be applied as a mitigating factor. This is not to imply in any way those places (or people) are therefore any less in quality or to be avoided. But I digress... I've driven past the "Paris Bistro" here, since it was established, and, unfairly thought "yeah, right". Why? Route 59 is a 1000% American Commerce Zone, rife with every franchise on the docket, and conformity is securely on the menu. And rightly so. Folks out here may have had their success, but they were raised in front of American TV, and their consumer habits developed accordingly, especially with regard to cuisine and eating habits. There are, of course, bona fide Ethnics in the general area, but those are germane to the Communities in residence. (Some FAB Chinese, Indian and Mexican places-q.v.) I am not aware of a burgeoning French settlement anywhere nearby. Around here "Cooper's Hawk" passes for "fine dining", and if you've ever fine-dined, you'll know Cooper's Hawk may parlay a decent feed, but it ain't Alinea, Bubba. In the far Western and Southwestern Chicago 'burbs, folks' Culinary tastes are as conservative as their politics. So whither "Paris Bistro"? It's a handsome suburban building with inviting signage. When you walk in, you pass a bar having an impressive array of boozes. Keep going west past the bar and you're in a room mimicking a rural setting, if a rural setting had curved leather banquettes. There's a more traditional dining room on the other side of the bar, but I didn't go in there. It was daytime, and bright, but when daylight ebbs, I'll bet both rooms are romantic. The service is reserved and accommodating-you're not going to find a wisecracking "Alice" on the staff. The menu actually is pretty accurate as a French Bistro in the USA. Lots of Français on it (in the titles), but the descriptions are all clear English. You don't have translation to fear.The menu is extensive, and features many traditional "Bistro" faves, along with select "American" choices. I was in for Brunch. Disregarding conformity, I ordered the Escargot for Hors D'oeuvre, not that I wanted to, but because I am pathologically incapable of NOT ordering Escargot if they are on the menu before me. They were yum, but I wish there was a softer bread available for sopping the buttery-garlic goodness remaining after the morsels are consumed. As "they" say, a French Chef is judged by their prowess in cooking a simple Omelette, so that's where I went. "Jambon et Gruyere" to be exact. It wasn't a large beast, but it was tasty, light, and properly prepared. No sign of the Rugby-Ball pancake-batter-enhanced behemoth omelettes you'll find in common Coffee shops. Accompanying was a (very) small salad of nice composition, with just enough fruity vinaigrette to satisfy. Also on the plate were tasty and ultra-crispy "shoestring fries". I'm not a slave to potatoes with breakfast. but these were damned good. The problem at hand (so to speak) was the transport from plate to mouth, as they were very thin and very crisp. Both fork and spoon were inefficient. I thought of using the spoon to crush them, thus rendering spoon a contender to preserve my dining decorum. In the end, I bit the bullet and just picked them up in hand, decorum be damned. I wish I had a bucket of these for movie-watching snacks at home. The coffee was a conundrum. It arrived with a strongish smell, like it was burnt and past its prime, but lacked the acrid flavor such as found in a forlorn brew. It was actually a fine, bold, cup of VERY dark roast. It's a nice, sophisticated (but not snooty) resto, dignified but not stuffy. If you need to have a business breakfast/brunch, this is a perfect place. Also, if you're not in the mood for the hustle and bustle of a noisy coffee shoppe. Prices a bit higher than you might expect, but... I quite enjoyed both the bread and circuses here, and while I never mistook myself from being anywhere else than in Naperville (not Paris), I caught the vibe, and it was nice. I am officially pissed at myself for not stopping here sooner. No "quotation marks" for this place. Throwing 4 stars (for now), and I'll be back here very soon for dinner.

I recently went to Paris Bistro for a Galentine's Day tea with my Pilates friends. We were a group…read moreof five. We were shown to a table in the room to the right of the host stand. That room is usually where they sit families. It was not our choice and we voiced our opinion to sit in the dining room. The staff immediately switched everything to the warm and inviting dining room. The food provided was tasty from the mini sandwiches to the tartines to the sweet treats. I have to say there was an inconsistency with sizing. Some were generous and some were lacking. They could've done a better job with consistency so we all got the same sizes. The tea service was very cute but you were only able to choose a couple teas. I've been to other teas at Suzette's and Pinecone Cottage where the tea is unlimited, as well as they ask if you would like another tasting of something that you really liked. I felt for the money this tea service was limited as well as not consistent. It was a great way to spend time with my Pilates friends, though. I could see myself doing this again if there were improvements made and they were more generous by offering an additional taste.

I think everyone who's ever been to any Melt N Dip location will tell you that they would happily…read moreengage in food tourism to visit every Melt N Dip location there is out there. Each and every location features plentiful parking, a social media worthy interior, comfortable elegant seating, and quality desserts that consistently delight everyone who has the opportunity to try them. On my visit here, I tried a different set of items from my Schaumburg visit to test the consistency of quality across different flavor profiles and dessert types, and it delivered perfectly. The mango gelato here is incredible -- with probably the strongest mango flavor I've ever had in a gelato. The Lotus was an elevated version of one of my favorite biscuits. The gelato is incredible, creamy and flavorful -- and something I'd happily serve with most any dessert. The waffle was flavorful as usual which paired perfectly with the chocolate mix. I also wanted to try My Passion to get a mix of different fruits -- as I was pleasantly surprised by how fresh the fruit was at the other location. This was equally as great, with fruit presented at the perfect ripeness. Extra kudos to the kiwi which wasn't sour at all, and in fact was one of the first items to be finished completely. The pineapple was also super juicy, sweet, and flavorful. I wish we'd gotten more eclairs, as the filling was super delicious. Maybe the weakest item in this dish was the brownie, which was only good -- while everything else we'd tried was great to amazing. Overall, worth a special trip for any dessert lover. This business consistently delivers top notch dishes at very reasonable prices.

Maybe we came at a bad time. ( Sunday at 1:00) Total bummer. Made the zip zag drive in to find no…read moreone at the counter. The gelato was not even in the case. In fact the case was empty. Crumbs were left and it was dirty. I called for someone multiple times. Heard people talking in back and no one came. My family looked at me and said we need to go. If the case was full and pretty like the pictures showed and someone came I would not be giving this negative review but I have no time for this. Completely disappointing.

I absolutely cannot believe that I didn't spend hours constructing this review because Crepas…read moreCulichi wasn't just a culinary delight, it was an experience in and of itself. The lattes were rich and robust, and my husband's hot chocolate was sweet and luscious! I ordered a savory poblano crepe and added shrimp - it was delicious - while my husband ordered a sweet one. The ambiance can be described as nothing other than...REGAL. Just grand, and beautiful - you feel like you're surrounded by luxury. Even the hot sauce is dispensed in these cute glass bottles. And the service matches the regality - everyone is super attentive! Love this and we will be back - not just for the ambiance but also for the food.

Amazing crepes , beautiful setup, awesome customer service…read more This Was my daughter's choice and she picked well. The are is amazing as well with lots to do.

Came to Melt n Dip and tried the pistachio éclair and WOW... it was so yummy. The filling was rich,…read morecreamy, and had that perfect pistachio flavor without being too heavy. The éclair itself was fresh and soft, and everything just melted together so well. The presentation was also super cute definitely a spot if you're craving something sweet and a little indulgent. Would 100% come back to try more desserts!

We got there at 9pm and it was pretty empty, but within a few minutes it was packed to the brim all…read morethe way until 11pm! Tried the my passion for 1, which is just a bunch of fruits, eclairs, marshmellows, and brownies with a rich and creamy chocolate dip in the middle. I LOVEEE chocolate fondue so this was genuinely heaven on earth. Also had the melt n dip crepe, which is filled with strawberry, kiwi, banana, and pineapple and filled with 3 kinds of chocolate - milk, dark, and white. The painted pattern on the top was so pretty, and surprisingly even with a slurry of chocolate, this was not heavy whatsoever. This place was bustling and just such a vibe!! Wish they had this in the Chicago city!