Pascal’s on Ponce

This is, by far, my favorite restaurant in Miami because it offers consistently great service & food. The place is small & quaint… Always with fresh flowers. The food is just divine. The Gruyère soufflé & chocolate soufflé for dessert are home runs every single time. Staff is attentive & polite. My husband & I eat here a few times a month & always enjoy it. Authentic, upscale French food without being intimidating or stuffy. Best place ever!

THE BEST!!! Great Service and great food! The French food is authentic and amazing.

I is small and classy. Nice music to listen to. Great drinks and different. Great service. Great food. Just right that you can continue your evening looking good without a tummy. I definitely like it there

I went to Pascal’s on Ponce on a Saturday night during Miami Spice. The food and service were excellent and I recommend that other people go. That said, plan to wait for your table — despite our reservation and the fact that we arrived early, we had to wait 30 minutes past our reservation time to be seated at our table.
The cheese soufflé appetizer was spectacular. My husband ordered the crab cakes and we didn’t think that we’re great.
I ordered the Mahi Mahi, which was ok but nothing spectacular. My husband ordered the duck and said it was fantastic.
For dessert I got the chocolate soufflé. It was incredibly airy and rich. My husband ordered the apple crisp dessert and it was good too.

If you like traditional French cuisine, you should enjoy Pascal on Ponce. Nice selection of different kind of cheeses. Veal chop cooked to perfection and presented in an artistic way. Wild salmon prepared delicately with mild flavors.

I came here for Miami Spice 2015, and overall my feeling was that everything was just «okay». Restaurant itself has a romantic atmosphere for dinner, but it looks a bit runout or old. Food was good but not best, just very normal and definitely not for the price we payed. Dessert was somehow sad and overall, disappointing.
It can be a nice place for a normal dinner, but if you expect to eat some really fine, expensive, high quality and surprising french food, I think this is not the best option.

I have been going to Pascal’s for quite a few years now with my family. The service is always great, and the food is delicious. The bartender also makes a mean French martini! It really bothers me when people leave bad reviews because of the price. I leave reviews based on the quality of the food. Yes it’s a high end restaurant, but you pay for what you get. The food is 5 stars. Yes the portions are not big but it’s a French restaurant. I’ve never been to an authentic French restaurant that had huge portions. Also, do yourself a favor and get the grand manier soufflé. You won’t regret it!

I am ashamed to say that today’s Miami Spice lunch marked my first dining experience at Pascal’s. Not only do I live and work in Coral Gables, but have been dying to try this restaurant for well over a decade. The first impression upon arrival was not the best, as there were only men on business lunches dining here, and we almost felt like we did not belong. As soon as Angelo came to our table, everything changed for the better. Angelo explained the preparation of every dish, his service was excellent and he gave us plenty of attention, ensuring our lunch was better than we anticipated, which it certainly was.
We came for the Miami Spice lunch, and the menu was one of the most extensive Miami Spice menus I have ever seen. In addition to offering 3 options per course that are all delicious items from their regular menu, they also give the option of paying a few extra dollars for other appetizers and entrees; for example, for an extra $ 8, I had the delicious duck terrine that came with pickled veggies and onion jam. We also ordered the tomato tartine for the table. This was not on the Miami spice menu, but really knocked our socks off. The tartine came with a pesto made without nuts, French feta, and crème fraise, and was absolutely exquisite. We then ordered the trout and risotto as main dishes. The trout was perfectly cooked, light, and delicious and came on a bed of lentils. The risotto was also exquisite and was served with summer vegetables. The risotto was perfectly cooked and was the perfect consistency. The only thing I will say is that I could have done without the dessert, the caramel crème. This was made to be like a flan, it was a custard in a bowl and once spooned into, opened up what seemed to be burnt caramel like a flan. It was a really cool idea, but the dessert did not seem on par with the exquisite first and second courses, and especially with the excellent service provided by Angelo.
All in all: 1. I loved Pascals. 2. It was worth the hype and 3. I will definitely be back for the regular menu.
Thank you Angelo and Chef for an exquisite lunch and wonderful experience.

Great place!!! Really good upscale French food, great service and the Chef Pascal Oudin, is a awesome and charming man!!! The place is small and casual but the food and the service is definitely 4 – 5 stars!!! But the gold tip fro me a dessert lover it is the Grand Marnier soufflé …OMG too good to be true!!! Yummmmm :-)

The service was awesome! I will definitely be back to check out everything else they have to offer! I strongly recommend the french cheeses and the lamb which were both awesome. The pistachio crème brûlée was fantastic!

Elegant and intimate French bistro on Ponce de Leon. Only a 5 minute walk from my maritime law firm, I hardly ever eat here.
Today was a special occasion as I had the pleasure of my daughter’s Sara Rose’s company. Like most teenagers she is never hungry at meal time but starving at bizarre hours.
I had the Nicoise salad which was sublime. OK, there are salades nicoises galore, that’s for sure. This Nicoise is a textbook salade composed of: dressed potatoes, sliced tomatoes, a bouquet of string beans, slices of hard boiled egg, nicoise olives, tuna in the center, all drizzled with vinaigrette. Yum.
We followed it by the best tart tartin in Miami. We were lucky that Chef Pascal was in the house and he made sure we loved every bite. Service otherwise was more sedate and distant. Not rushing us at all.
Can’t wait to go back.

Delicious! The ambiance and crowd are nothing to speak of but the food is amazing. You need to try the cheese soufflé appetizer and the dessert soufflé as well (we had the chocolate and it was probably one of the best soufflés I have ever had). I had the scallops with short rib on top, which was a unique flavor and definitely worth a try. My fiancé had the lamb and loved it. You can expect around $ 200 for an app, 2 entrees and a dessert (we brought our wine).

Despite being highly over-​rated, and severely over-​priced, I have been a fan of Pascal’s on Ponce for many years. Chef Pascal is a talented chef, and his restaurant does many things well.
However, I have since discovered that Pascal was recently investigated, and found guilty, by the U.S. Department of Labor, for the unforgivable crime of stealing his wait staff’s charge tips, and funneling those funds to compensate his managers. What kind of an unscrupulous restaurant owner steals from his waiters? I can no longer patronize the restaurant of a sleazy thief, particularly one who I’ve also heard is an unbelievable jerk. This confirms it. Visit Frenchie’s on the other side of the block.

One word: Overrated.
Food is way overpriced for the quality, quantity and taste. It is good, but you can tell is all about the chefs ego. Unfortunately the food is not as good as the chef thinks it is and all we heard was the chef this, the chef that…
Plenty of better restaurants in the area with better cooked food and less expensive. I dont mind paying when food deserves it but this doesnt cut it. Service was ok.

Been here like a dozen or so times over the years and it’s always been a perfect example of upscale French bistro fare. This place really shines in its consistency. Not the best ambiance (especially when the tvs are on) but WOW does this place cook. Come hungry. And do the chef a favor: come on a week night.

Finally got to try this place last month, been wanting to try forever as we are local. Noticed a lot of people from out of town commenting on site, but most locals not commenting positively.
All that I remember is that it was mostly unmemorable. Extremely overpriced «French» menu items that were mediocre at best.
Mesculin Salad, OK but could have gotten a decent salad anywhere at a much better price; hard as a rock over cooked Tenderloin of Beef, with charred potatoes, they took a torch to them to brown and then over did them. we also had the Duck Breast which was good and just OK.
This restaurant may have been considered to be 4 – 5 stars but the food seems to be average at best.

This place is pretty good, man. While in Miami for a work conference, I learned of this thing called Miami Spice; it’s like Restaurant Week but for 2 whole months. 2 whole months of a Restaurant Week? I can’t even handle it.
Pascals seemed like a good fit.
I splurged a bit from the prix fixe menu; I had to have souffles. It is a french joint after all. I started with the cheese soufflé, which was epic. A light and fluffy cheese soufflé topped with a Parmesan sauce. Up next was duck, which was also cooked quite well and fall off the bone. The third course, was another soufflé (when in Paris); this time a chocolate one. With chocolate ganache. Poured on top. Oh. Yeah.
The ambiance actually fit the type of cuisine; it’s a bit stuffy and white tableclothy. However, that’s not always necessarily a bad thing.
If I ever find myself back in Miami, and in need of a soufflé or two, I’m looking at you POP.

I really wanted to love this place, but it fell a bit short.
We went for the Miami spice menu and I ordered the gruyère soufflé as my starter, which I thought was excellent. Since my husband and I are both obsessed with duck confit we both ordered that. We left wishing we tried something different as it was good but just didn’t wow us the way many other restaurants have. The pistachio crème brûlée was okay but really left something to be desired.
Our server was phenomenal but unfortunately the food just didn’t quite meet our expectations.

I went to pascals for the first time on Friday night. I went on a double date and overall I had a lovely experience. I took advantage of the miami spice deal.
I had the lobster bisque as the appetizer, which was good and fragrant.
I had the lamb navarin as the entrée. the lamb was excellent, I didn’t even need a fork to cut it, it fell apart. it also had very little fat, which meant I got more edible meat (a complaint I usually have with lamb is that it’s too fatty and I don’t get enough meat to actually fill me up, not here!). My boyfriend had the swordfish and I had a few bites. Oh my gosh, it was delicious. it was like butter. I’ve never had fish that good, and the portion was nice and big, at least 6 oz.
Finally, our dessert. we got the pistachio crème brûlée which I was really looking forward to. but sad to say, I was disappointed. the crème brûlée had barely any cream, and a lot of crust. also, it was bright (artificial looking) green, which turned me off. I’ve had much better crème brûlée elsewhere. it wasn’t bad, but wasn’t great.
the service was 4/​5, pretty attentive, yet the waitress and assistants kept mixing up our dishes, which called for us having to exchange our plates with one another a lot.
As others have said, it is a small place, and it can get loud. but that’s what makes the restaurant so great to go to I think. it’s intimate and very lovely. But, I wouldn’t pay ~100 $ a person to go there, that’s just me. so thanks to miami spice for letting us try this place!

Excelente Dinner 100% recomendado
Servicio A+ Gracias thanks
El menú de degustación se los recomiendo
Agradable ambiente y servicio.

You cannot have a bad experience here. Their food exceeds any other French restaurant in the Gables. Their soufflé is amazing. The only bad things is that it’s pricey if not I would come here all the time.
Service is amazing.