Review: Patois, Brooklyn

A couple of weekends ago, Evan, Suzannah, and I decide to make brunch plans. Suz is a die-hard Manhattanite, but every once in a while she can be convinced to take that smelly old public transportation out to visit us peasants in Brooklyn. I'd bookmarked a snazzy sounding place on Yelp that sounded promising for brunch. I polled the others and they said, sure, so Patois it was.

First off, the people at this place are the most forgiving EVER when it comes to reservations. Here's what happened:

Phone Call #1: In which I discovered that reservations can only be made for parties of four and above, but am helpfully told that if we come early, we'll be fine.

Email #1: In which I tell this to Evan and Suz, and Suz says she'll rope her roommate and another friend into coming.

Phone Call #2: In which I call Patois and make a reservation for five.

Email #2: In which Suz says no-go on party members 4 and 5, so we're back to 3.

Phone Call #3: In which I call and explain this to Patois, and the lovely lady on the other end says, don't worry about! They'll hold our reservation anyways.

Phone Call #4: In which Suz calls me five minutes before our reservation and says she's running late....30 minutes late.

So when Suz got there, they were quite lovely and sat us pretty quickly anyhow. So this place definitely gets points for being accommodating, even with difficult people like us. On to the food!

I am a sucker for freebies, and this place had a couple that were particularly noteworthy. Free unlimited Mimosas, and a free basket of breads and pastries that were to die for. The Mimosas were good, when we were able to flag the waitress down to refill our glasses. The bread basket never showed up! So I can't comment on that.

We all ordered typical brunch fare that was eh so-so. Not bad, not WOW GOOD, but passable. And that's all there really was to say. The menu for dinner looked VERY appealing there, so I'm sure we'll eventually go back and try that.

The place itself was very cute and homey-looking, and they seemed to have a nice garden in the back.

Patois gets 3 stars out of 4 stars. Mainly because they were so gosh-darn nice about all the confusion, and because it's fun to say the name. PAH-TWA! VOILA! PAMPLEMOUSSE!

Patois
255 Smith St
(between Degraw St & Douglass St)
Brooklyn, NY 11231
718.855.1535