Review 1 Rue Suffren - Pondicherry

The whole vibe of this restaurant is top notch. Right from the services and friendliness of the staff, to the mouth-watering food, and the rustic, old atmosphere of the place - everything is just perfect. 1 Rue Suffren, the name is the same as the address - is one of the most highly rated restaurants in Puducherry. And I can fully vouch why. The place is lit up, you take a flight of stairs to arrive at a spacious balcony of an old French building. The balcony, in addition to a few huge rooms, all serve as dining areas. One of them is a bar. Accommodates, I think more than 200-300 people at a time, so even in Christmas we didn't need to wait. Definitely recommended.

This place is good with a huge seating area (both indoor and outdoor) and I loved their ambience and service as well. I must admit that I had the best and creamiest mashed potatoes here. However, the chicken teriyaki (written in menu) we ordered was totally like chicken satay and even then it was not so great. Tasted very bland !!! Their butter herb rice and mashed potatoes are to-die-for!!!! As we ordered mostly continental dishes, the taste was fine but the flavours were mild. But overall experience was good and enjoyable 😊

If you're looking around for continental food based restaurants near Rock Beach, then 1 Rue Suffren is the pick for you. One of the best restaurants in the white town of pondicherry. Taste wise it's just awesome. The restaurant is located on the 1st floor of one of the oldest Heritage buildings (CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE) of Pondicherry which has been shot in many movies.

Good place to have good time with friends. It might get a bit busier in the night and weekends. It might take a while to get the order prepared but its worth the wait. The waitress there was super helpful and advised dishes and mocktails as per our preference. Its close to the beach and I felt its a bit costly. The taste was good but less spicy. Liked the prawns curry. The washrooms are at awkwardly far from the place. The place is buzzing with good music and crowd. Might visit again. They dont have any thai dishes these days.

We had seen this restaurant on the way to Promenade. The exterior is stunning and inviting. On our last night in Pondicherry, we tried this restaurant/bar. We ordered two French dishes (grilled fish and a tiger prawn dish) and two cocktails. I can't say much about the authenticity of the French dishes but it was different and tasted amazing. The cocktails were great too. Service was prompt and friendly. We arrived early at 6.30 pm and managed to get a table but the restaurant is quite big. The decor is amazing with high ceilings and the typical French colony colors of warm orange. The dinner was around 2100 rs. Quantity was just enough for two of us.

Loved the drink named "April Lady" Food was priced well, quantity was sufficient for one person. Also got fries on the side! Vibe is very classic. There is less crowd during daytime and I'm all for it. Music choice was good.

Great place to have great food and have a nice time. Every thing on the menu is great. The pasta, fish fingers, fried chicken all are tasty. It's located in the French colony and is a refurbished old French colonial building, hence has a certain charm to it. Highly recommended.

Its located on the turn near garden and war memorial with ample of parking space. Its on the first floor inside a heritage building and French styled steps and interior. The restaurant is always live and has a wide bar counter. Food is very tasty with good portion size. It is a mere walking distance from the beach and the craft market is close by. Atmosphere is good and spacious with TV always on with a background music. Service is fast but 3/5 as the waiter was in confusion full time even during payments. There is no beach view in this one. Washrooms available but not clean and on ground floor.

Food was excellent and the quantity was also very good. We took enough lunch for 4pf us and bill was around 1500. Highly recommended to others. Both interial as well as exterior design, staff behavior, service were excellent.

Absolutely fantastic experience dining here. Stumbled across in the last few hours of our trip here and wished had found it sooner. Top notch food matched with the grand ambience and incredibly nice service. Delectable dishes and decent portion sizes, much better than relatively priced competitors i had been to in the region.

Lovely place with good vibe at a good location. The food tasted delicious and the service was prompt. A bit overly priced for the portion size but overall must visit if you want good crowd and food.

The place has a ‘French’-inspired architecture and style to it. The food is good and I do recommend trying their Rue Suffren Special Chicken Wings and their cheese and mushroom chicken steak. The waiters and waitresses were pleasant and courteous.

Went for a relaxed dine in at Rue Suffren. Tried broccoli soup, chicken crostini, poulet au fromage and brownie for dessert. Unfortunately creme brulee was not available. We chose the outdoor space which gave out peaceful vibes. The waitress was sweet enough to get us some extra herb rice. Cost came around 1200 for two. Pretty place with good food.

The food was excellent and the quantity was also very good. The panner tikka, cauliflower starter was amazing, as well as the were very very yummy. We tried the mock tails too. For the ambience,the quantity and the taste, we found the price to be worth it. The place is quiet tucked away in the corner and very peaceful.

The place is of special importance because it is able to take in people when all the cafes are all booked out, although there is a significant waiting time. The first time I visited the place, it is as a great experience!! The second not so good. Some of us were served non-veg food instead of veg food. Although the staff gave us discount, but they were very indifferent to the issue that some veg people had eaten non-veg food. P.S.: Don't let that hold you back, coz the food is good

**Arrabiata Spaghetti Pasta** - This place near the Promenade is a great place to chill and have some great Continental or North Indian cuisine.. A bit on the expensive side but beautiful Ambience and happy staff.<br/><br/>Cost pp-500-550(without alcohol)<br/>Ambience - 4/5<br/>Staff - 4.5/5<br/>Worth the money - 4/5<br/>

One can feel like being in home. The service done by young girls was tat much polite and love. One can see a huge smiling face on all serving peoples. Especially shithal and simran will make anyone to feel much comfortable.. price was moderate and food was best in taste, quality and quantity. #bestpondicherryfoods #tastyfood #liquorandfood

One of the best restaurants in my list. Would love to visit again for one more tasteful dinner night !!<br/>Staffs are caring and friendly. Ms. REENA is interactive and creates positive atmosphere. <br/>Extremely impressive !!

Really recommend this one! Great food. Ask for the desert specials. Our server Reena was very welcoming and great to talk to!

Fish finger and arrabiata pasta was awesome... It was a great experience at 1 rue suffern.... Sushmita is very cute and helpful... Love the ambience and service... We will visit again 😊

Sushmita is soooo cute.... She took good care of us..... It was a great experience.... Nice place to hangout with friends.....

It was a great experience in weekend.... Sushmita helped us so much.... Thanks

On our 2nd day in Pondy we were looking out for a place which serves French Cuisine and hence landed up in this place for lunch. It's a pretty large & spacious place with the typical French colonial looks. The staff was courteous too. Due to late breakfast, we didn't have a great appetite that afternoon. We ordered:Puduvai Fried PrawnsChicken Stroganoff Mexican Pasta SaladAlthough all the items tasted really good, the chicken was a bit hard, however the staff got it replaced. The best part though was the ambience of the place!

Came over for lunch today and I loved absolutely everything about this place. The best highlight of my lunch was the staff, they were very welcoming and super sweet. One in particular named Rina from Bhutan was absolutely sweet and she made the experience much more worth it! I do enjoy when the staff talk to the customers, it makes us feel more comfortable and let’s us know that they are genuinely interested in what we think of the food. <br/><br/>Had the following:<br/>1. Cottage cheese skewers<br/>2. Mongolian chilly chicken<br/>3. Grilled fish, herb rice and boiled vegetables <br/>4. Pink sauce penne pasta with chicken strips<br/>5. Vegetable noodles <br/>6. Arabiatta spaghetti (veg)<br/><br/>The mongolian chilly chicken was my favourite as starters, I loved how all the flavours came out! The same with the grilled fish and pink sauce pasta was absolutely delicious!!! The arabiatta spaghetti was just mouth watering and definitely all of the above dishes are a BIG MUST TRY ! <br/><br/>Can not wait to visit Pondicherry and this restaurant once again🙂

Ambience staff and food is all so nice.. only minus point goes to the over baked hard fish in the fish steak ! 😕

Very nice place.. awesome food.. friendly staff.. beautiful ambience

Great place with great ambience. Good variety of food and drinks. Top class service by the very friendly Bijetha.

We had a great time. Bijeta was really courteous and friendly and made sure we had a great time!

For dinner, on our first night in Pondicherry, we couldn't get a table in Coromandel Cafe and started looking for a different place. We found 1 Rue Suffren and their specials for the day - Beer Battered Fish n Chips - attracted us and we went in. We ordered the special twice! It was really that gooood! We also ordered the Prawn stuffed Chicken sausage, Chicken Salad, Chicken Stroganoff and Kung Pao Chicken. Everything was really good. The fries served with the fish were crispy af and the tartare dip was yummy.<br/>For drinks, we mostly had beer. I had the fruit punch mocktail.<br/>The service was quick and the servers really sweet. Our total bill was around 4200/- and it was totally worth it!

A quiet and beautiful place with good food. The staff here is so friendly and welcoming. Thanks to Rina and Simran who went out of their way to make our experience a pleasant one!

The food is excellent..And we will like to come here again & again 😋😀

Only place that was willing to seat us on a Saturday night (apparently, it is a thing with restaurants in White Town that they stop taking in walk-ins 1-1.5 hours before closing time depending on the waiting crowd).<br/><br/>Impeccable service, very nice decor that goes with the theme of White Town being a French colonial-era area. <br/><br/>We had the Chicken Coconut Varuval and the Chicken Stroganoff -both the dishes were very delicious, especially the latter (which was one of the best preparations I had during my entire stay in Puducherry).

The place is the 1st on the street, the architecture is so soothing , one of the best places till date in pondi with an amazing and calming ambience. They have a bar and the drinks are so cute and yummy. The ambience and the amazing food made us sit here for hours.

Amazing place!! Drinks are too good

The food served was undercooked and when highlighted the waiter plain straight refused to do anything about it. There's some basic courtesy you expect from a tourist destination like Pondicherry, this place quite didn't live upto the mark.

Gave this restaurant a visit after the reviews , and totally worth it! Such a amazing ambiance. the bar tender Ms.elakiya made Rose and mint love valentine day special cocktail it was amizing.definitely I'll recommend my friend also...

Good place to chill and feels good to be here...the ambiance particular is very classy.yeasterday we came with my friends. our table attender ms.elakiya she is very friendly with us.. she suggested awesome food and classic drinks.. it was our amazing experience.

Ambiance is good. Some one looking for peace will surely like this place.

Staff has no clue what’s on the menu. Kung pao chicken is served with steamed rice.. 😂. You are expected to open your beer pint by your teeth..😬. Staff proudly accepts that the fish served is frozen for atleast 2 days (this literally got me rolling on the floor)... Shocked how this place is even running since a year.. Even 1 star is an over rating!!

The place was good, like the ambience, it give the feel of old and reach town. Staff was so good and helpful. I like the food. Food was delicious and service was also fast. They have indoor and outdoor sitting. Only negative point was, difficult to find the entrance from outside.

One of the best food and people are very nice .Mutton was one of the best and biryani was one of the best we have ever read. Reena was very friendly to us and very caring .Her Suggestions were one of the best and she was very sweet .<br/>The food was one of the best and it's must visit place for non veg and drinks

Our server Rhena was excellent and the meal was lovely. We will be back definitely. Great ambience and even greater staff.

One of the nicer eat-out places in the quaint Puducherry. Lovely food and service. We were served by Rina who was very sweet and hospitable. She made our evening by making us feel warmly welcomed.

Had a amazing Sunday lunch at @1ruesuffren<br/>1. Cottage cheese steak served with cranberry sauce<br/>2. Chilli Cheese Poppers<br/>3. Pesto Pasta<br/>4. Veg Pulao<br/>5. Mocktails- Blue Lagoon and PY10<br/>The steak and the sauce was the highlight of the meal. PY10 was a really refreshing litchi and rose based mocktail.<br/>The ambience of this huge place had old world french vibes.<br/>The cottage cheese steak was tasting very good with the favors of the cranberry sauce.

The loveliest place with a warm and welcoming ambiance, right in the heart of the French Colony. It’s your THE go-to place to grab a beer and sit in the open after a long day of exploration. The grilled fish here is a MUST!! <br/>It is amazing the attention given to the minutest details, that has been intricately considered by the owners, who ever so warmly spoke to us about the restaurant, it’s genesis, their inspiration behind it, and so on. <br/>If you’re craving for some peace, serendipity and cheesecakes, you know where to go!

Extremely pleasent and cozy place. The staff are really polite and friendly. Over all a good place to sit back and enjoy a good meal.<br/>Only thing which can be improved is the response time, but then again, when the place is crowded it would be hard for them to manage.

Good place to have decent food, limited Veg options, good hospitality. Would suggest to order everything in one go, as sometimes it does take some time for food to be served.

The food is horrible, with no amount spice. They have no sense of taste and service is horrible. the food simple just sucks, not recomendable at all.

Ambiece: 3.5/5<br/>Location: 4/5<br/>Staff and service: 4.5/5<br/>Food: 2.5/5, Ordered Chicken Coconut Varuval which was ok, Stuffed vegetable was bad<br/>Drinks: 3.5/5 Cocktails were good, tried Blue Hawain, Pineapple chilli margharita, however a lot in cocktail depends of personal taste

Great place in pondi. Second best restaurant in pondi after la cafe. Staff is very pleasing and welcoming. Loved the food and ambience.

Great food and lovely friendly staff, great service and great food!!! Nice place to wind down after all that sun in pondy!

This restaurant is not worth a 4+ rating. It totally mislead us

We enjoyed the ambiance. Reema was amazing in recommending the best dishes and drinks.

Thank you Shiva for the great service.

Waiting time after ordering the food is too high. Nearly 30-40 minutes. Food is not properly cooked and lacks taste. The mashed potatoes were not mashed at all which was a basic expectation Ambience is fine. Continental food is not good at all. Pan Asian was decent

Nice place which is an old building turned into a fine dine place.<br/>Dishes:<br/>Cocktail: bull frog strong and nice.<br/>French onion soup: ok wasn't the favorite<br/>Stuffed exotic vegetable: yumm. The capscicum and zucchini stuffed with flavoured rice. Potato wedges come along with it.

The drinks and food are great here. We tried cocktails pineapple chilli margarita n Rue suffren special..they were good. The nasi goreng was great, the service could be slightly better. The French onion soup was delish ,so was the calamari rings

This is one of the finest vintage places in pondicherry. Awesome vintage decor, beautiful sitting arrangement immediately pleases you mind. But they could hv done better with their food. We ordered Chicken stroganoff, Mee Goreng & Grilled fish... Mee goreng was the best among all these. Fish was quite dry, didnt like it much...<br/>The service is poor.. We got our orders on table quite late probably because it was Christmas night. Overall nice, but there is definitely a scope for improvement.

Completely Amazed! The service took 25min to deliver however the taste of the food was just mind blowing! We hadn't expected such tasty at a French Restaurant in Pondicherry. We had ordered Chef Special Prawn Curry, Paneer Curry, Dal Makhni, Rice, Roti. A little disappointed with the size of the tandoori roti, but that's really not a matter when looking at a larger picture. A definitely visit restaurant!

Good food and good ambience but unbelievably slow service. Overall experience not worth it at all. Had to wait for 1.5 hours for food

Gave this restaurant a visit after the reviews, and totally worth it! Such an amazing ambience. Highlights is the staff who treat with so much warmth, and specially the amazing food! Loved every bit of the pasta and the mocktail called Cinderella

Is a must visit place for tourists for its continental foods. I discovered its ambience and staff friendly during my recent visit,it was kind of new. Food is great especially continental. I suggest them to arrange the wash room aside as it is kind of far after filling ur stomachs😅...

We are group went dinner at rue SUFFREN , we had a great time , enjoyed there meal and good hospitality. We tried Asian platter , pad kra pow Gai it was nice. This place is surely anytime visit... Mr.maran & ms.Elakya thanks for your service.

Very unhappy with the food, they have no idea what they are serving and the staff and chef are clueless. They put chocolate sauce in the Caprese salad and refused to agree that it was not right. Claimed to not have garlic bread and when pressed for it they served it dripping in butter and garlic. Got the drinks order wrong and the marinara pasta looked more like kadhai paneer.

In spite of horrible experience with food , i must say the staff is really good. And they offered to cancel my dish as well and took my feedback positively..

Simran was really courteous. Thank you. Fly high.

Excellent food and service. I like to come again here and meet mis elakiya she was made one cocktail last time rue suffern special still feel that. Really enjoyed.

The food is amazing. All the food is super fresh and the staff (Reena) is amazingly friendly and nice.

The staff Ms sheetal and simran were really friendly. The platter was amazing .

Siva our waiter was great. He told us of his life before pondicherry. The drinks were superb abd food out of this world....

Nice food, great ambience and good service.

Staff is very good, helpful and good service.

A very nice and a cozy place to chill with your friends.<br/>We ordered Chinese chilli chicken and Alfredo pasta. The food here is very good. The ambience and interiors is just perfect. The staff here, Ms Reena, she is so friendly and help you to choose and recommend you dishes.<br/>Would definitely visit this place again! :)

Awesome food , excellent ambience , good service

Hi pondi last night I went the 1 rué suffren restaurant very beautiful place& classic French style, here service staff very friendly with smiling face, I ordered baby lobster it was awesome amazing and my ordered chicken and prawn curry,chilli chicken it's really good amazing service I am really happy with the peoples I will come again pondy for your restaurant.......

First ever visit to this place and the overall experience was very bad.Horrible food with no taste or flavour whatsoever and absolutely clueless staff who had no idea of the food they were serving with the Chef himself equally clueless. The only saving grace was the Manager Maren who apologised profusely and ensured that we did not pay for the entire bill. My request to all is to stay away from this place !

One of the best places which I visited in Pondicherry after seeing the reviews at the last moment. <br/>Loved everything we ordered. <br/>Blue ruffian - the only drink which I didn’t like so much coz of certain flavour in it and the drink was mild. <br/>Hara bhara kabab - was yummy with green chutney<br/>Phulka with aloo gobi - this was good too<br/>Red sauce pasta - this was the bestest dish which I tasted and my son liked it too. It was spicy and just like Italian pasta <br/>Ambience is again a French colonial architecture building. <br/>The price does make a hole in your pocket

I came here with my family looking for good North Indian in Pondicherry. This place has a very great hospitality like I have never seen before. We were attended by Reena and she was very polite and humble.

14 of us went for dinner here on a Sunday! Should have made a reservation, nearly waited 40 minutes for a table<br/><br/>Ambience: Nicely done with a lot of colonial feel around!<br/><br/>Pros,<br/><br/>1) Nice food menu also tastes great<br/><br/>2) Awesome staff<br/><br/>3) Ambience I liked a lot!<br/><br/>4) Place gets filled up like crazy but the staff are on feet to help you, can be a little slow though, when it gets packed<br/><br/>5) Cocktails as per expectations.. Many options outside of menu are also available!<br/><br/>Cons,<br/><br/>1) Seating arrangement can be improved on the whole (Its not that bad too!)<br/><br/>2) Bathrooms is little away from main dining area<br/><br/>Thanks team 1 Rue Suffren will be a regular visitor to you guys! Keep up the good work! Cheers!

Ambience - 5/5. One of the most exciting ambience. One of its kind in Pondy<br/>Food - 5/5. Food is good as well, didn't try the variety, but whatever I ordered seemed satisfying.<br/><br/>Service - 4/5. The place is huge, and that attracts crowd. That's no excuse for a slow service, however they were friendly. Got two shooters on the house for me and a friend, from their side itself because of the delay

This place is surely a anytime visit, the beautiful bar counter inside, the park view , the food and mocktails list goes on and on. Would recommend all to visit once

I was searching for French restaurants in pondicherry and after I did a Google search I got this one which is located near the bharathi park. When we entered the restaurant staff was friendly, and smiling ,since it was already late, we were informed to placethe food order fast as their kitchen closes at 10.30pm<br/>We had gone with the expectation of seeing French food on the menu, but were surprised to find that it was bot so and they serve Indian foods, and continental. We were not so hungry , so we went in for a tomato basil soup and bolognese pasta .the order was taken by simran .I was happy to see all the ladies staff smiling and talking to us. Shital and Rheena also spoke to us and asked whether our order was placed. The food was served fast . The tomato basil soup was good and the bolognese pasta which I tried out for first time with lamb shredded pieces was good and experienced new taste. Overall we went happy as ours was last order. But we had a hurried dinner as the restaurant was shutting g down. But whatever little time we spent we were happy becoz of the girls simran, rheena and shital who were always smiling and talking g to us. We would recommend this hotel for the service ,and ambience and also it's a quiet place to chill with family and friends. Gals keep up the smile .and win your customers heart...

Spacious. Good cocktail ( bull frog - variant of long island with Curacao). Snapper fish good. Chicken 95 - mite too crispy on outside. Service is good. Friendly.

Food is a disaster. Beware of the high rating.

Horrible food.

Liked the food and the service

Very courteous staff, great food, awesome decor

Very nice place. One of the comfortable places to hang out in pondicherry without burning so much of a hole in your pocket. Amazing service and the management was very patient and warm. Beautiful ambience. Really French colonial vibe. Good food also. And plenty of options for ppl to choose across different cuisines.

Good Food and Friendly nature of workers

Went there with my family (two little kids) on a rainy evening this week and totally loved the experience. Amazing ambience in a historical french building coupled with equally great food quality and service of the staff. Venkatesh (venky) and Lekaya went out of their way to make sure we had a nice evening.

Very good experience