Chope Moi - Republique

"WARNING - DO NOT COME HERE - THIEFS ARE HERE STEALING. MILLIONS OF BETTER OPTIONS. Listen, crime is everywhere, but this bar won't look out for you, and based on their response tonight, there is a chance the bar is in on it with the thieves. If you read this and still come here, you are not smart. The bar was NOT busy tonight, I was sitting inside at a table with a few friends watching World Cup. A man came in asking to sell us roses (they were dead, probably from the trash) and was asking for money for food from the bartender and from our table which we politely declined, and so did the bartender. In fake exasperation the man set his bouquet of flowers down on the table, where my phone was, and picked both up and walked away. I had unknowingly left my phone on the table and he stole it from right in front of me, I realized a minute too late. The inside of the bar was not at all busy, and I was INSIDE at a private table, my guard was not up. Ironically I was there to cheer on France in the World Cup, wearing a France jersey when a French guy stole my phone. The reason for the zero stars and the warning is that the bartender did NOT care at all that this man had come in and stolen from us 5 feet away from him. We told him what happened and he had zero reaction, just put his hands in the air and shrugged. I don't blame him, but to not care at all that this happened right in front of him to his biggest table, was alarming and led me to believe he could have been in on it. We obviously left immediately after. There is infinite great bears nearby, DO NOT COME HERE."