Cafe Monte French Bakery and Bistro

Cafe Monte consistently delivers high quality meals. We had a delicious Sunday brunch: french country breakfast and florentine omelette. The multigrain bread for toast is so tatsy as is the potato pancake. The hostess, Grace gave us a warm welcome and our waiter, Tony was excellent. It was hard to believe when he said it was his first day. Clerarly, he came with some solid experience.

Great spot. Wife and I go there a few times a year. Good service, some nice music, usually (maybe always?) jazz which I like. Food is very good. Great French onion soup, nice salad options, some great entres -- short rib is excellent. Cozy and authentic French cafe vibes as well. Just an all around great place to go with well above average value compared to the other restaurants in the city too. Be back soon!

Great experience with excellent service. Only issue was they were out of steak and out of potatoes.

10/10 for Cafe Monte! I've been for lunch and dinner and both times the food and service were unmatched. The ambiance is enough to make you feel like you're in a little French town if just for a little while :) I already cant wait to go back!

Made reservation online for a July 1st birthday dinner and received a text message and confirmed our reservation via text message that day. When we arrived there was a note on the door that they were closed from July 1st thru July 4th. Very disappointed with the lack of communication and inaccuracy of the reservation system.

Great food, nice atmosphere, consistently bad service. Even when it’s not all that crowded they are incredibly slow.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 2

Horrible food very bad service.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Recommended dishes: French Onion Soup

They charged me $4 for ice in my vodka tonic. I wish they had charged me for hand soap too, because it would have been nice to have some in the bathrooms. Cotton dry chicken; they would have done better to send a sous chef out to get a rotisserie chicken from Harris Teeter.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 2

I visited this place after hearing positive reviews, but my experience was disappointing. I ordered steak and eggs medium, but they arrived medium-rare. The service was slow, and the orders were incorrect. We spent a lot of time clarifying our orders and requesting condiments. The atmosphere is nice, but it wasn’t enough to make me want to return.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 2

Went here for beignets but they don’t compare to those in Louisiana. Had an omelette and overall it was just ok. Not worth the $35 I paid.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 5

One of the few nice spots here in Charlotte. The food is really pretty good but not always consistent. Great place to sit outside on a nice day!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 4

My pizza was good but the crab cake sandwich was terrible! The service, from the host to the server to the waitress, was horrible! After a 2 hour wait, we were seated with 1 set of utensils. We had to ask 3 different staff for them and finally got them 10 minutes after we received our food. Our waitress was perfecting her disappearing act while we were there. We finally found her on her phone by the front door as we were leaving. Don’t waste your time at this restaurant. There are plenty of better options in Charlotte!

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 1

been wanting to try this place for the longest and finally was able to. terribly disappointed. the food was mid and there wasn’t much flavor in my crepe. my bf got a benedict and that was fine. the moment we walked we were in line to be attended by the host. as the pair in front finished, we were waiting to get serviced, a mom and her daughter walked right in front of us. the host saw this happened and still attended them before us. their reservation wasn’t till almost an hour later. I said that was rude when the got right in front of us and they didn’t even care, and yes they were white. felt unwelcome the minute we walked in. sad that the host did nothing to stop them, asking them to step aside saying we were first would’ve been enough. terrible experience and not worth the drive :(

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 3

Service: 3

We have previously visited this restaurant for breakfast and have always enjoyed it. Today we stopped by for lunch and ordered a burger with a side of fries, and a duck and potato salad. The burger was dry and lacked flavor (I do not recommend); however, the fries were delicious. The duck potato salad was delicious and would recommend this dish. We enjoyed our time, and their latte was good.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Duck Confit and Waffles

I went to cafe monte yesterday to celebrate my birthday & had a reservation at noon. We did not get sat until 12:25 with 0 apology or care from the hostess & nobody even gave us water or acknowledged us until almost 1. The server seemed busy so we tried to be considerate yet my food came out wrong and when I told the runner he took the wrong sandwich back with an angry demeanor. The right sandwich came out which was a smoked salmon one which had cucumbers in it that was not on the menu. I picked those out but my sandwich was dry and the fries were fine but I was hungry so ate everything. My friends waffle was cold and not good. We left frustrated because we all work in food service and are patient but I just did not enjoy this experience overall and will probably never return.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 2