Bistro Restaurant - Puducherry

Reviewing only the bar/restaurant part of The Richmond, which is known as Bistro Restaurant. The place is well maintained, clean, homely and boasts of polite and courteous staff. The food here is pretty decent with a menu that is a bit generic (i.e not Creole enough or not french enough or not chettinad enough) but what they offer is cooked well and tastes very nice. The staff who are attentive and helpful need just a little better communication. What I liked most about this bar is in spite of being in White Town, it is probably one of the cheapest places to get alcohol in a very family friendly setting. Also their serving size is 60ml, which is such a welcome sight in times like...read more

Bistro is a small in house restaurant of Hotel Richmond in White Town area of Pondicherry. It generally serves the hotel guests only and hardly any other guests come here for lunch or dinner. It's small and cosy and serves all there meals to in-house guests. Good for breakfast if you are staying here and do not want to venture out early in the morning. Location: The hotel is located on the La-bourdannis Street in White Town and is not easy to locate being really small. The restaurant is on the ground floor behind the reception. Parking: Being in White Town the streets are quite narrow and parking is a problem. You may have to park your car some distance away from the hotel. Ambiance:...read more

Warm and cosy place to be. Very nice ambience. Compared to other places, it's highly priced. We just had a drink and two with fish fingers. The fish fingers were absolutely bland and tasteless. Stars are only for the ambience for now.

Stayed at the Hotel Richmond and hence had the complementary Buffet Breakfast on Sunday morning 12 June. It was a big let down since we reached the restaurant at 9.20am. By then most of the food was either cold or over. we had inquired the night before about the timings 7.30am to 10am from the front desk. The spread was decent though sooji upma, poori bhaji, ildis, sambhar, 3 types of chutney, dosa (order), milk and cornflakes chocos, boiled eggs, chicken sausages, bread toast (white bread only), cut fruits watermelon, pineapple, grapes (not the normal ones, but the higher quality small red/ purple cherry grapes) and lassi and watermelon juice. Tea and coffee. the poori and bhaji...read more

Excellent starter served wit a outstanding taste of pondy but wit a bit of slow service!! Must try definitely a Poison of ur choice wit it..