Café Poêtes is an authentic French bistro and tea room in Houston. Our mission is to bring you a unique experience with elegance by paying great attention to details.
As a typical Paris café, Poêtes comes with a full kitchen offering an inventive menu for high tea and Dinner.
Everyday from 5pm to 8pm, café Poêtes offers a new dinner service with les cocottes, delicious slow cooked confort meal and sharable plates to start.
Café Poêtes offers High Tea all day, a French interpretation of high tea from 11am to 9pm served on 3 tiers with an assortment of savory and sweet inventive finger food such as savory mini eclairs, mini quiche, mini sweet eclairs and choux. Upon reservation only.
Book-lined spot for breakfast, French cafe fare & baked goods are with wine, coffee & afternoon tea. Based on 494 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.4 stars. Price $$
Address:
122 W Gray St, Houston, TX 77019
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Alexandre Carisey
We went there today for the first time. As a French, I tend to be super picky about these “French” places that are popping all over Houston. This one is really awesome! The food menu is creative and really tempting, we tried two tartines (prosciutto and avocado) and they were both delicious. Pretty large portions so the price/quantity ratio is good too. We tried the brie quiche and that was special because it reminded me exactly of the taste of home food.
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Natalie
Absolutely delightful café in Midtown that exudes the essence of France! Precious decor, rustic furniture, charming cutlery/dishes, and a large full book shelf! My fiancé and I met 3 of our family members here around noon on a Friday – we had the entire café to ourselves actually!
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Annie Rupani
Cafe Poetes is a quaint, charming Parisian café that has been thoughtfully crafted from the decor, furniture, ambience, and menu. As a French cuisine lover, there’s nothing better than a well executed eclair with the perfect flakiness of the choux balanced by the savory filling of mushrooms, ham, and gruyere. We also tried the beet gazpacho which seems a bit too thick to be considered a soup, but the mingling flavors of the beets, tomatoes, balsamic, and goat cheese were classically delicious.
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Stacy Anderson
This place is absolutely precious! Not on is the building beautiful, but the pastries are authentic and oh so delicious! The dark chocolate choux and the eclairs are my absolute favorite. You can tell by the taste that they are made with quality ingredients and done in the traditional French way. You won’t be disappointed!
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Siyi H
This place is perfect for social media posting and photos! Atmosphere is 9/10! But the food was just average, taste not that good although with really amazing presentation.
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Jillian Westphal
My new favorite Houston cafe!! The staff was great, the quiche Lorraine was the best thing I’ve ever had, the eclairs are out of this world, and the lavender latte fixed all of my problems. Love this place so much!
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Jacob Thomas
I’ve been to Poetes twice recently and really enjoy the place. Their atmosphere feels very French – from the food to decor to service. I’ve had several tarts, eclairs, breakfast items and beverages. The quality of all the food is great; fresh and flavorful. My favorite item I’ve had is the avocado and egg sandwich. I’ll say that I’m a little disappointed by the desserts, maybe my palette is unrefined/American, but I prefer Epicure Cafe or even Le Madeline. Also, the place is on the more expensive side. However, I do recommend Cafe Poetes and will be going back (as soon as I get someone to cover my bill).
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stephanie rodriguez
Super cute coffee shop, COME for the pastries. DON’T STAY for the hateful looks you get, bad attitude and horrible service. I tried to give this place a few chances and EVERY SINGLE TIME I’m treated and or looked at like I shouldn’t be here by the staff. Nothing at all compared to when the place first opened. I took my mom there about 2 weeks ago, the same server who treated me the same way last time I was there looked at us both up and down, and in the rudest way said that we couldn’t be seated because of High Tea. I don’t care if you’re fully booked, it doesn’t give you the right to treat people so disrespectfully a simple “sorry we’re booked” would have sufficed.
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Efi Tsouko
Finally Houston has a French cafe that offers delicious dishes with style ! Beautiful inside out and very attentative staff taking care of you all the time. I loved their croissant, quiche and lavender pistachio choux was heavenly ! A must try!
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Cynthia Prado
Had seen this place on a vlogger site so I wanted to check it out, such a cute aesthetic place! Went a week ago so we made a reservation and glad we did since it’s a very small place. Went for afternoon tea since I had it in London and the experience is so cute. This was a French place experience so a bit different. A little pricey for the portions, wish it allowed to choose the no champagne option at a lower price for those who don’t want alcohol. We chose the popular tea coconut frenzy which was delicious. Wish I would’ve bought some to go. The madelines were amazing. Will be back for maybe just tea and pastries.
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