A la Maison Bistro

Who would guess - authentic French cuisine in Ardmore, within a short drive from downtown Philly. Weekend nights with music and no cover charge. Great for a meet up with friends or sweetheart, a bit noisy for romance but great fun! BYOB.

This is our favourite restaurant!! The food is fresh and delicious, the service is exceptional and the quiet warm ambience reminds me of a true French restaurant. All the food is great but the Pâté is a must!

Fabulous classic French dishes. Generous portions. Friendly and warm staff. Make sure to leave room for dessert!

The food is amazing, tasty ingredients and of a very good quality. The staff is friendly and very helpful. Strongly recommended!!!

The restaurant is small so when full it can be quite loud. The food and service is exceptional and the menu holds a wide variety of foods.

I've come here for lunch twice now and both times I've left very happy. Delicious food, awesome service, and a pretty decently priced lunch.

A group of us went and everyone said how good everything was. Nice portions, terrific staff , just overall a great place .

Great French cuisine. Sometimes we have enjoyed live music. Always excellent service and decor.

I love this place...great food, ambiance and the wait staff is incredible!! Please go, you will love it!!

Lovely atmosphere, have been several times for lunch. Excellent menu.

Excellent food. Escargot was cooked perfectly, bread was warm and flavorful.

Great French style restaurant. Love the pat^e Very good fishes and steak.

Delicious food. Great service. Will definitely keep coming back

This remains a uniquely intimate spot - its casual elegance is matched by the quality of its food and service, all of which are superb.

Outstanding food and service. Portions larger than I expected at a French restaurant.

Love the food and ambience, the service is now great, positive changes made regarding customer satisfaction.

Delightful. An evening affair. Not an empty seat in the house so recommend reservations. Beautifully decorated. The scallop appetizer was topped with the perfect sauce. The quail was stuffed with delicious mushrooms and chestnuts and cooked to perfection. The music was a wonderful back drop to a festive evening with friends. Plenty of parking in the back. The service was exceptional and timely. Would be a perfect venue for a company lunch-dinner. Would love to see a breakfast added as an alternative local choice.

I am vegan and they have a delicious beet salad. They also have ratatouille and other salads. I ate something before I arrived knowing they are a traditional French restaurant, so I wouldn't suffer. It is beautifully decorated, service is close to excellent--The back server served my husband before me. (As a former server myself, I know the ladies and children are supposed to be served before the gents.) My husband had the sampler appetizer, beef medallions and brought his own bottle of red. No corkage fee! Our server, Kate, is great! Everyone was friendly and helpful and knowledgable. We arrived within an hour before closing so they didn't have anymore of the chocolate cake. Next time we will arrive earlier. Need to make a reservation, however. I did not use the restroom while there, so I can't comment on that yet. We will return!

OMG, this place was outstanding. The service was perfect, and the food was even better. The staff was helpful, attentive and friendly without being intrusive. We loved the escargot, European bread, salmon and a huge, wonderful bouillabaisse seafood dish. The dessert menu was a bit disappointing as a French restaurant, but our cheesecake selection was wonderful. We'll be back anytime we're in the area!

That’s a pot du creme, or dense, rich chocolate creme under the whipped cream.

Nice decor. Friendly stuff. Great food. BYOB

great service superb food quality never disappointed

Good if you like french food (pate', lots of butter etc)

Somewhat pricey, but the portion sizes are very fair and will guarantee you don't leave hungry. The bread they gave was good. There was a nuttier bread that I thought was too dry at first, but then realized it left such a wonderful aftertaste and that I had not yet understood its amazing understated flavor. The seafood Boulleboulaise (forget the spelling) was good. The seafood broth was not at all salty. The grilled shrimp was also decent, with very yummy tomatoes and cannoli beans (is that the right word?). (Seriously, the tomatoes were amazingly flavorful.) The stunner was the special dessert that day, a wonderful, refreshing mixed berry tart with raspberry mousse and a dollop of vanilla ice cream. Any negatives? I was a bit disappointed that when I pointed out that one of the clams in the seafood broth did not open, I did not receive anything special or get a discount, though the server did say sorry. Overall, a more than decent dinner, and I don't feel like I really overpaid. The quality was certainly there. The wait time was also reasonable. Do make a reservation if you want to go!

We have been eating at this place since it openned. Almost always good to very good. A bit expensive, service usually good. If it is busy the service may slip. The music is just so so but some are into it

The food was very good, but the service was slow. They seemed understaffed, the restaurant was nearly full and I only ever saw one waiter.

Amazing food, great ambiance, often has great music, informative wait staff- DO NOT GO ON A HOLIDAY- you will wait forever and never get a seat- every other day this place is great!

Love this place - fine food and atmosphere. Consistent quality and always helpful and friendly service.

Located in such a safe and upscale district of Villanova. Outside seats are available with the view of the street

Good is always spot on. Excellent French cuisine in the heart of a Philly suburb.

Food is to average for the price, great atmosphere though. Is a byob.

Delicious, authentic, creative menu, lovely service in a very appealing space. Dinner was superb until we were driven out by painfully loud live music. The music itself was appropriate--if only it had been soft and intimate rather than eardrum-bursting.

Expensive. For your money you get the full look and feel of the fancy French restaurant experience-- but not so much the taste. My family was underwhelmed by the food itself. The food was fine but not as amazing as we'd expected given the price.

The brisket sandwich at lunch time was greasy. It's very dark and gloomy inside. They have outdoor seating but service was terrible out there. Waited close to two hrs for our dinner and by that time, no one really was in the mood to eat, it just got to late. We did get a complimentary bottle of wine for the table because of the wait and mix up in our orders. Won't go back, food just isn't exciting.

The rating is low because the service here has always been spotty, but the last time I went it became ludicrous. We waited over a half an hour between soup and our salad, and when the salad came it was completely mis-prepared. It was supposed to have warm cheese that was refrigerator cold. The menu has also become very thin at lunch with few choices. It has fallen off a lot over the past couple of years.

Though we had a confirmed reservation, we were never seated...in fact we waited 15 minutes, but we're not even greeted.

My husband and I walked in on a slow Saturday around 7:30 PM in August. We were hoping to find a spot for a quality evening coffee. The restaurant has a separate seating area/coffee bar for just that. At the time we walked in, it was empty - not one person was seated there. The rest of the restaurant wasn’t that full either. Despite not being busy when we indicated we wanted to sit at the coffee bar for just a coffee we were told that a minimum charge is required. While I can kind of understand this because it was a Saturday night, at the same time, considering that they weren’t that busy I found it to be quite dismissive and poor customer service, to say the least.

Called everyday since March 10. I even sent emails and messages on facebook with my contact information for a birthday event for a friend. I didn't receive a response, only saw that my messages were left on seen. While in town, I saw that the restaurant was open and I called. I was hung up on and had to physically walk in. I was told by the owner that he thought I was talking to someone else. He hung up plain and simple after I said my name and that I have been trying to make a reservation. I let him know it was rude point blank. He didn't seem to care that on his end there was problem. He tried to get us to make a reservation but the birthday girl wasn't thrilled and called to let them know it was uncomfortable the next day. We found an amazing middle eastern spot.

The food was good, but service is terrible. There was a hair in my dish and I asked for new food. They just changed the plate and brought me the same food on a different plate. I asked them to cook more food, but they didn’t . And also they didn’t even apologize about it. Horrible service! I never wrote a bad review before, but this place definitely spoiled our evening.

Stopped in a on Saturday at 5:10 p.m., and although the place was virtually empty, they did not have a table for two. Ok. Maybe they were expecting a big crowd at 5:30 or 6:00. Walked past at 6:30 after having eaten somewhere else, and there were three tables outside empty and a few inside. We felt very blown off by the staff and would never go back.