Kyle W.
Yelp
This is a cozy, neighborhood French restaurant in Greenwood. Parking is surprisingly extremely difficult for a Sunday early dinner, where we went around 5pm to take advantage of their happy hour. $3 baguette, $4 escargot, $5 beet salad (this is with them raising the prices already literally after the New Years). Wow!
Why 4 stars not 5 stars? Food is kind of hit or miss. We got the beet salad, escargot, baguette, French onion soup, duck confit, steak frites, and creme brulee. We also got 3 glasses of wine (the house red and white and brut rose) as we wanted to drink up but not spend too much - wine was $1 off during happy hour.
Beet salad is pretty decent with 5-6 pieces of beet and lots of arugula and blue cheese. It was a great starter.
Escargot is a little mediocre but what else do you expect if it is $4? I have never seen a dish this inexpensive even if I traveled to France for escargot. However, it felt overcooked and the amount of garlic butter is not a lot, but the baguette on the side is nicely toasted and soaks up the small amount of sauce well. I would 100% order again though because 2 of this dish is enough for a nice meal, if you want to pinch pennies.
Baguette was $3 and is served with some butter. It is pretty solid, but I wouldn't have gotten it if I researched to see that escargot also had baguette. However, more bread didn't hurt at all. In fact, we ate every single piece of it because it was delicious!
French onion soup is very good. It is baked with bread and cheese, and the onion is super flavorful. There is not too much soup but the whole thing is very well-rounded and satisfying.
Duck confit - duck was very tender, but I wished it was a bit more flavorful. It is served with some vegetables and potatoes that were decent. $22 for a nice large piece of duck is good value.
Steak frites - requested medium rare and we received it more like medium, but it was fine. The steak was a little tough but I really liked the sauce. More longer fries would have been good as they were smaller shoestring fries, and they looked more like leftover fries due to all the small fragments of fries. This dish was $26 and I expected more as there weren't a whole lot of meat.
Creme brulee - $9 was pretty standard but it was burnt. We had to sadly toss out most of the caramelized sugar on top to eat a few spoonfuls of the cream.
I would only recommend the beet salad, escargot, baguette, French onion soup, and duck confit, which I will gladly go again during happy hour.
Service is decent. It seems like there were 2-3 people working the bar, kitchen, and serving, but it wasn't too long of a wait for anything. The server did have a few mishaps like dropping the blue cheese on the table (but he gave us a generous cup of blue cheese to make it up) and forget our glass of brut rose I ordered during happy hour (but he owned up to his mistake and comped the glass), so it was all good. I would write service off as a positive because of that.