Gainsbourg - Seattle

Consistently excellent, the happy hour gainsburger is a steal. Duck confit is mouth watering yummy. I love sitting at the bar on the cooks side and watch their attractive staff knock out their dishes. It's seat your self, don't be shy, super cozy comfort food.

My new favorite spot for drinks with friends. The ambience, cocktails, comforting french classics and decor enable conversation and settling in. This is a place to snuggle from the rain and dip your baguette into buttery escargot, to get frites with everything, to have full flavored soups and not fear cream. Finally, to take time to sip a French press after dinner. Do yourself a favor (and bring a friend.

We enjoyed the cheese board, cocktails, french onion soup, fries, and the Gainsbourg burger. Burger and drinks are specially good and a superb deal in the happy hour. We ordered drinks between 4-6pm on a Monday, so got double happy hour deductions! Service is not the friendliest but we didn't mind. French influence perhaps?

Always solid. Soulful place with consistent good food and service. Always get the French onion soup. Steak and frites great. Lots of tasty cocktails too.

To say we were disappointed is an understatement party of two walked in around 7pm, and took two seats at the bar. The restaurant was full, but not packed, and there were tables available. It took 10 minutes before the bartender greeted us with water and menus. I immediately placed an order for a cocktail special, which happened to be posted on the wall behind the bar and sounded appealing (it was called B Positive . The cocktail came out rather quickly, about 5 minutes later, and the bartender said he would be back to take our order. That was the moment where we should have closed our tab because at that point, we received no follow up from the time we flagged the bartender down for our check 30 minutes later. At the moment when the cocktail was delivered, we told the bartender we would like to move to a booth, seeing one available. He said no problem, and we imagined that meant he would be over to serve us shortly in the booth. We waited a full 30 minutes, watching both the bartender and two servers make laps around the restaurant, with no acknowledgment of us. We overheard them apologizing to other patrons for the delay in service to their tables. After picking our entire meal and salivating over the menu, as well as both using the bathroom, we decided to flag the bartender who was ignoring us down and ask for the check. We were so excited to find an authentic French restaurant in a cozy neighborhood. This experience left such a sour taste in our mouths to the point it threatened to ruin our entire evening, but frankly, the lack of hospitality at this place is so uninspiring that it 's not even worth a second thought.