The food and atmosphere are fabulous. The restaurant has moved to a new location at the corner of RT 111 and El Paseo. It is a stand alone building, built especially for the restaurant and is quite elegant without being stuffy.    [19 Mar 2004 15:04:02]

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What a Waste
After reading many fine reviews about this restaurant, I was looking forward to a wonderful evening. I did have a wonderful evening - the next one.

The beef chop with Bordelaise, ordered rare, was accompanied by a potato gratin and root vegetables. The beef was stringy, overcooked and flavorless. The vegetables were oily and equally flavorless.

The waiter boasted that the Executive Chef Dervieux had trained under the famous French, Chef Paul Bocuse, who sent Chef Dervieux to the U.S. to open a restaurant here. Based on my experience at Cuistot, I can only believe Chef Bocuse wanted to distance himself from Chef Dervieux.

Service was mediocre.

On the plus side, the wine was good and the busboy kept my water glass full.

Cuistot was a major disappointment.    [30 Apr 2005 00:28:06]

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Recommend that You Ignore the Previous Negative Review
If the beef chop was as bad as the writer says it was, he should have sent it back. All restaurants occasionally have misfires. It appears that the writer was most interested in making his little joke about Paul Bocuse...

My wife and I have been to Cuistot numerous times for lunch and dinner, as recently as October 2005, and are going back next week. We live in Los Angeles but make a point of going there (as well as Johannes in Palm Springs proper) whenever we are in the area for the weekend.    [09 Oct 2006 21:04:55]

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Recommended Dishes: foie gras, crab gratinee, Anaheim chile appetizers, salads, soups, beef chop, rabbit, duck two ways

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Cuistot Has Serious Problems
My girlfriend and I just ate at Cuistot for the first time on 2/21/07. It was without question the worst dining experience we have ever had at a "high-end" restaurant.

1) The seafood quenelle appetizer had decent cheese sauce but the fish was bland and tasteless.
2) The foie gras was ruined with excessive vinegar and tomato sauce.
3) The beef entree was missing its bacon wrap.
4) The pork tenderloin was missing the Roquefort cheese.
5) The peach cobbler had only 2 small pieces of peach, some undercooked dough, and an odd raspberry sauce.
6) The service was uniformly atrocious. We had to ask for everything, including bread and more water. I timed 25 minutes without one service person coming by our table.

I suspect that this restaurant is so busy because there's no competition in the area. Cuistot is an atrocity compared to a real restaurant like Spago or Mastro.

Beware if you go - prepare for disappointment!    [22 Feb 2007 12:26:18]

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     ­Mike, Yorba Linda   onlinemarketing at bigplanet dot com