Madeleine's Petit Paris

One doesn’t have to travel across the ocean to find a piece of the French countryside. Located in the residential area of Northvale and named after the owner’s mom, Madeleine's Petit Paris is a fantastic establishment with a culinary delight. The owner, François, is Swiss and unfortunately was off tonight. He does a very good job of making one feel like one is in France or Switzerland, where my partner, our friends and I came tonight for dinner. Reservations were easily made on their website. Upon arrival, one is seated quickly in what seems to be someone’s large living room or elegant dining room. Their à la carte menu is a fusion of Swiss and French, which has a unique flavor and offers enough variety for everyone. Our server was Al, and he brought complimentary warm bread to us to start our meal. Some of us got to taste their French martini (pineapple vodka, pineapple juice, and raspberry liqueur). For appetizers, we ordered Escargots Café de Paris (out of the shell, sautéed with garlic, herbs, and butter) and Crab Cake Louisiana (jumbo lump crab meat, bell peppers, onions, and bread crumbs over mild Louisiana sauce). For entree, we got Boneless Braised Short Ribs Garnished with Carrots, Celery, and Green Peas over Mashed Potatoes, Pork Medallions Normand (sautéed with apples and Calvados (French apple brandy) over Mashed Potatoes), and Canard Confit à L’Orange (breast is sautéed, leg is confit, served with Grand Marnier sauce and wild rice). We even saved room for desserts and got a soufflé to share one Grand Marnier and the other chocolate. Since we’ve been here several times, every dish has been well prepared and tasty, from the appetizers to the main course to the desserts, with no detail overlooked. We continue to recommend this place and hope to meet the owner on our next visit.

Mom and i dined in the day before mother's day. Each of us having been to France a couple times, madeleine's did not disappoint. Each dish was expertly executed. The service was carefully attentive, and very generous with some particular requests i made. We felt very cared for and never rushed. Even listening out the back on the way out the kitchen staff sounded upbeat and happy the day before mother's day (this says a lot). The manager took time to talk to each table later on, if they seemed to want it (was not intrusive and was very easy to talk to). A very positive atmosphere and it was obvious they cared that each party had a personal experience. Thank you, keep up the wonderful work 😊

Nice local French restaurant. Friendly and attentive personnel.

Truly amazing. We just had our baby shower here. Easy to accommodate our music, decorations and table shifts. Food was perfect and the staff was on point. Thank you all and especially to Francois for helping us and being hands on the entire time.

We went for a random Saturday dinner at Madeleine to try out their French cuisine. Luckily we had no wait time, there were just enough tables to sit two. The restaurant was packed overall. It’s pretty old fashioned town house style inside, but they a beautiful bar and some really nice interior with French touch.

They have a pretty decent long menu with variety of dishes, including lots of drinks options. We really liked their wine suggestion of the moscato. Food wise, we started with the mussels and scallops, both excellent but scallops was beyond good, loved the sauce in it. We got the calves liver and Branzino for entree. I loved the Branzino, it was cooked to perfection temperature. The liver dish had 5 pieces with caramelized onion. That was a lot of liver to eat in one meal. I’d have preferred less onion my dish too. But the liver itself was also cooked well and tasted great.

Even though we didn’t order dessert, we saw everyone else getting the souffle, which seems to be their specialty, and changes accordingly to the season.

Our server really busy, so we did have to wait a bit on wrapping up, but overall we had a wonderful dinner, and glad to have found this great French location close to our home.