Epicurean Bistro is a contemporary French restaurant offering 100% scratch-made French Country cuisine with modern day twists. With a constant evolving and revolving menu, a fully stocked bar and French wines that you WILL NOT find anywhere in our region, our guests are sure to enjoy an Epicurean experience like no other. Bon Appetit!
Based on 42 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.6 stars. Price
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ No delivery
Address:
1978 Eastwood Rd, Wilmington, NC 28403
Phone: (910) 679-4442
Hours
| Friday | 5–10 PM |
| Saturday | 5–10 PM |
| Sunday | Closed |
| Monday
(Labor Day)
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Closed |
| Tuesday | 5–9 PM |
| Wednesday | 5–9 PM |
| Thursday | 5–9 PM |
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Order and Reservations
Reservations: epicureanbistro.comresos.com
Reviews
Ji-sun Shin
This is a review that is long due. We came here when the restaurant first opening and came here again about 2 years later. It is so nice to see the quality of the food has not changed. It is very delicious and high quality food. The servers are so friendly and attentive. The owner is super friendly as well and everyone was very personable! Ally was our server the first time we came she and Brittany was our server later and they are both awesome! (Sorry if I misspelled your names). The ambience is great but can get a bit loud and hard to hear your table. Overall we love this place! This is the only location that we know that make Beef Wellington, and they make is so deliciously!
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Morton Levitt
Duck had no flavor, but was cooked correctly. The lamb chops and the Rosemary Bread and butter was the best part of the meal!
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Madison Davis
I had the Wellington and my boyfriend had the duck. The food was absolutely phenomenal & our server, Rhiannon, was kind, positive and helpful. We will be back!
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HAB
The restaurant was very clean. We sat at the bar & the service was great. The bread was fantastic, appetizers were good, dinner was possibly the best I’ve ever had at a restaurant & the dessert was delicious. The “only” negative critique we could give is most of the food was too salty.
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Nate Mauldin
Service was excellent and wait staff was very friendly. However, our table was one of only two occupied in the restaurant at 7pm on a Friday. Yet, our food took nearly an hour to come out. When the food did get there, it was subpar for the price and even made a few of our guests sick. I had a crepe with shrimp, scallops and lobster cream. To my dismay, the crepe had a foul fishy smell—usually a sign it was frozen or expired. I love French cuisine, but this restaurant is simply not on the level of the other French restaurants in town, just go to the one right down the road.
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Julie Romero
We were able to get one of the last reservations that they had for Christmas Eve. We were so glad that they did. The wine was great, the food was delicious and our server Ally was the best! I got the dungeoness crab bisque and stuffed chicken thigh. My husband got the French onion soup and the ribeye. We will be back!!!!
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Gordon Cohen
Food was creative and excellent. I recommend the Brie-stuffed chicken thigh, off the bone- great berry sauce on thigh and delish rice. Tasty green beans or spinach- I forget which. Excellent server. Very nice, modern interior with modern exposed ceiling.
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Johanna Smith
I went to Epicurean about about a year ago and I very much enjoyed it. Took my daughter for her 30th birthday and I wish I knew to pick any other restaurant but this one. Service was not good but I could have overlooked the service issues if the food wasn’t such a greater disappointment. Onion soup? Not edible, you can’t fix a dish overly salted. Lamb chop appetizer? Well, for the price, it was less of a one bite for each of us and the two bites were way over cooked. Beef Wellington? Don’t do it! Another issue with an overly salty a dish and was over cooked (well done when ordered medium rare). Daughter got sick immediately afterwards for an hour. In summary, when arriving home, after a very expensive meal….heating oven to bake a frozen pizza as we are hungry and the wallet is weeping
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Kim Nguyen
Came in on a Tuesday night at 5:45 pm and had the whole restaurant to ourselves for a good hour. What an experience! From the drinks, food, and service, everything was excellent. Beef Wellington was better than I was expecting, my knife was going through it like butter!
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The Nina
Where do I even begin. This was probably the worst dining experience our party of four has ever had at any restaurant. The whole ordeal took exactly two hours and forty-five minutes just to have dinner. We arrived at our reservation time of 7:00 pm, were seated and given a craft cocktail menu detailing about 5-6 specialty drinks. Two of us ordered the same drink, one ordered Kettle One on the rocks, and my husband ordered Tito’s with soda. Fifteen minutes later, our server announces that the two craft cocktails cannot be prepared, because they didn’t have all of the ingredients. Then, another ten minutes passed and she told us that they do not have Kettle One vodka. The fourth drink was not delivered at all until we finally flagged down our server to ask about it. Okay, we have our drinks 25 minutes after we were seated, and place our food orders. My cup of French onion soup was so greasy with fat floating on top that I could barely eat it, and the cup was only filled just over halfway. Very tiny portion. My husband ordered the steak au poivre, which was delivered ten minutes before the rest of our meals. The steak was tough, overcooked, had gristle and was flavorless. I ordered the scallops and asked that the chef sear them really well on both sides. When my meal was finally delivered, the scallops were pure white/opaque on both sides, so I sent it back. Keep in mind that we were each three drinks in at this point due to how long everything was taking. The rest of my party contributed some of their food, so that I would have something to eat while waiting for my seared scallops. At this point, bread and butter had not even been delivered until we asked for it. The scallops finally come to the table, and were so overly salted, that I couldn’t eat them…and I’m a salt lover! Then, the chef came out and really confronted me about why I sent back the first plate. I explained the request I had made, and that my dinner also did not include the potato croquet that was advertised on the weekly menu posted online two days ago (see photo). He grabbed a menu, shoved it in front of me, and pointed out that I was wrong and that the scallops were served with ratatouille this evening. Well, shame on me for not studying the menu that was changed from the one just posted online. Okay, fair enough. That one was on me. However, the chef didn’t even offer to provide one of their other two potato sides, but instead, loudly challenged me in front of other diners until I told him not to speak to me in that tone, which caused somewhat of a scene. No dessert was offered until we had to ask for it, and our glasses and plates were never cleared throughout the entire meal (see photo). As you can see, there were at least 16 glasses on the table! We had to clear them ourselves and place some of the empties on the table behind us (see photo). The only saving grace was the pastry chef. She was lovely, and made the effort to carmelize the sugar on the creme brûlée at our table. All of the starters and mains were underwhelming, but the desserts were fabulous! She is the reason that I gave this restaurant one more star than it deserves. Note that the restaurant was not overly crowded, and there was nobody sitting at the bar. All of the diners that were seated before we arrived had the same long wait for their food. It was not just us. Unbeknownst to the Owner and staff, we went to dinner with friends whose son owns the most popular bar and restaurant on Wrightsville Beach, and they also knew the folks seated at the table next to us; one of which is a prominent political figure in town. Nobody was happy, and I am sorry to say that the word of our dreadful dining experience is going to spread like wildfire. This place really needs to get its act together before any of us will return.
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