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Le Pichet
This tiny French café, bistro and wine bar is elegant and tasteful, and yet it’s casual enough to quickly become a favorite haunt. The menu features traditional French cuisine without the aorta-clogging heaviness that this often implies. Breakfast is simple and delicious, and small snack plates of olives, almonds or various rillettes (potted meats) are available all day. For a treat, order the roasted chicken with celery and potatoes ($34); it’s made only on request and takes an hour, but is worth the wait.
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Café Presse
This dreamy new cafe, opened by the owners of the cute French bistro Le Pichet, specializes in unfussy dishes the likes of which you’d find once upon a time in a terrace cafe around Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The croque monsieur and madame are huge slabs of creamy goodness, steak frites are perfectly cooked and filling, and the vegetables are fresh and crispy. There’s a handful of outdoor tables outside the beautiful cafe-bar; a long list of aperitifs and digestifs adds to the classy Euro feel. The cafe’s adorable servers seem to have been hired based on their resemblance to Jean Seberg in Breathless.
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Campagne
You have to love a place that cut off part of its building to save the one tree in the market, as the bar at Campagne did. Nestled in the courtyard of the Inn at the market, this is a favorite among Seattle’s traditional French restaurants. Try the mussels with pommes frites or the crispy pork shoulder with fingerling potatoes. The Campagne burger costs $33, but it’s dressed with foie gras and truffles. Reservations are recommended.
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Rover’s
Many locals consider this Seattle’s best restaurant. Chef Thierry Rautureau (‘the Chef in the Hat’) offers three prix-fixe menus a day (one vegetarian), as well as á la carte items. The food is upscale French with a Northwest twist – Oregon quail, for example, or Copper River salmon with morels. The cozy space is one of the few in Seattle where you’ll want to dress up, and reservations are definitely advised.
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Café Campagne
At this casual younger sibling of the upscale Campagne, the quality of the French-style cooking is what you’d expect from such a talented kitchen, plus the prices are more manageable, and you don’t have to dress up for dinner. The weekend brunch is a treat.
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