Chez Gladines - Puteaux

This is a restaurant filled with regular locals and you won't find a table before 2 pm _There is plate of the day for €10.5 and other dishes range from

The largest portions we had on our trip.

Great staff, clean, and great atmosphere__The snails were some of the best I tasted in ParisThey are served sans the shells.

Great service!! Duck confit was a little too salty to my tastes, but the cassoulet was fantastic. Really nice and cozy place inside. Recommended.

We ate here on a Friday night, 28/04/2023. We arrived at 8pm and the dining room was packed full. The dining room is a lively space that is open, almost cavernous, but filled smartly with fun and lively decor throughout. This is definitely a young, hip sort of restaurant. I will get my complaint out of the way and will end my review with the important stuff the food info. If you don 't want to hear my negativity, please scroll down. We showed up at the busiest time we could. Unfortunately, that 's just how it worked out. The weird thing, though, was that one of the employees took the initiative to take down my number. He said that there would probably be a table open in about 15 20 mins (We were a two top) and that he would call us. This was the first time that any restaurant employee had offered to do this for us, and I thought it was a bit odd given the French system, if you will, of dining out at a restaurant. But I figured that since this is a popular, trendy restaurant in an area that is pretty tourist heavy maybe they have a slightly different system to accommodate a less than local crowd. We walked around the neighborhood and after about 20 minutes we were back at the restaurant without having heard from anyone. As we were standing there, though, two guests walked in and made contact with the same employee we left our number with, and they pointed to an empty table and he sat them. So, I then had to fight a bit to get their attention and had to really assert myself to get the other employee to finally seat us. Upon sitting down, the first employee who had taken our number down actually walked by and quickly acknowledged to us Oh, I 'm sorry, I didn 't have time to call, we are so busy. Which, that was true, they were running around and doing a good job of it, too. But why take my number down, then? It felt like I was being appeased a little bit. Like he didn 't expect us to wait. Or maybe he was just really busy on a Friday night and overwhelmed. I 'm not sure. So, that was a little weird. All things considered, though, this was an overall great dining experience. We started out having the snails in the Basque sauce. They were delicious. They serve the snails out of the shell and simmered in this delightfully tomato y, pepper ish sauce that is some sort of Basque or Basque fusion creation, along with some bread for dipping. I 'm a big texture guy so I was a little apprehensive to try the snails but these have me sold. Unfortunately they weren 't served in a way that was very aesthetically pleasing, so there is no picture of them. The star of the show was my entree the Basque chicken. It 's a leg quarter piece (Thigh and drumstick) that was also simmered in the same Basque sauce as the snails, and it 's served with a portion of white rice. This dish was much more aesthetically pleasing, so there 's a picture included. This was so delicious. The chicken was fall apart tender but the way they slow simmer in kept the meat juicy. I loved how they served the dishes in cast iron cookware; everything came out PIPING hot and stayed that way for the duration of the meal. It was nice to have the last few bites warm, or even hot, versus the room temperature sort of feeling that often happens at the end of a meal. All in all, this was a great restaurant and a great meal. I would love to come back and go at an earlier time on a weeknight. The inside got a little loud with the Friday night crowd in full swing and they were out of their selection of white wines by the time we showed up. But the energy was good and lively and the red wine still went down fine. If I 'm lucky enough to be back in Paris, I will be back at Chez Gladines. Thank you!