L'Imparfait

I had the menu du jour which started with eggs and truffle. The grey mush that I received didn’t resemble eggs or taste like them and there was no whiff of truffle at all. Very disappointing. Like a bad scrambled tofu with zero flavour. Actually inedible. The staff assured me there was egg in it as I asked if this was infact the correct order. Liver for main was delicious with a very tasty sauce. Mash potatoes were bland and lentils unnecessary… choice of crepe or pain Perdue for dessert. Fairly unimaginative choice. Crepes were ok but sauce was way too sweet. A rather underwhelming experience for somewhere I had been excited to try.

A real gem! We booked for a party of 13 and sampled nearly every item on the menu. The food was outstanding, both in taste and presentation. They have a solid wine selection. Service started off slow but picked up nicely, becoming warm and personable. I recommend this restaurant to anyone looking for local yet upscale cuisine. I’m eager to return on my next visit to the region.

Great special venue for food sharing with friends and family. Food great, service is good. Definitely a restaurant worth travelling to. 4 stars for service as it was a little too formal and showy for me. Heating up brandy for a mediocre apple tart was style over substance.

Smart and welcoming restaurant serving French and regional classics and does it very well. Excellent wine selection. A choice of menus from lunch deals to an a la carte to an extravagant tasting menu. Quite expensive but definitely worth it!

Exceptional food and service, from flavor to plating to ingredient combinations — not a weak note among the dishes. Seriously some of the best food in the region - and it’s Michelin guide recommended for a reason. The restaurant is nestled into a charming street so there’s no vehicle traffic to disrupt dining. A lot of other reviewers writing in English claim to have issues with the staff if they didn’t speak French. We don’t speak a word of French and multiple staff were able to communicate with us just fine in English - although I could see if you have very detailed requests it could take a moment or some google translate to figure things out. For 50 or 60 euro the tasting menus are an outrageously good value and offer superior food to that of restaurants we’ve tried around North America for twice the cost! Seriously just go here - it’s great.

Made a reservation around 8 weeks ago for a table of four to have an outside reservation. Got a reminder the night before and confirmed. Arrived at the correct time to be offered a table inside - where no one was sitting on a day where the temps were 30c. Poor customer service - table obviously given away.

We had the most amazing gastronomic experience at l'imparfait during our last night in Bergerac. Make sure you book as obviously this is a highly in demand restaurant. Every mouthful was like a taste of heaven, the food was fresh and complex - the wine divine. The service from our server 'David' was exactly the right amount of care and knowledge for a long summer evening grazing on all the delightful plates. Loved every second - highly recommended 👌 would return in a heartbeat- THANK YOU

We had a lovely evening here last night. The food, wine, service and atmosphere is excellent! Would recommend and will revisit myself in the future.

The restaurant is quite charming, and well appointed. There are 3 prix fixe menus to choose from, and also an a la carte menu. We found the service to be quite attentive, and there's plenty of bread with a compressed herb butter. Offering cocktails and aperitifs, there's an interesting local wine list too. We enjoyed the amuse bouche, and our main dishes were quite nice, but I found my scallops a bit underwhelming. The baba au rhum for dessert was a winner.

Perfect Sunday lunch! We loved the service, ambiance and the food was beautifully plated, and so delicious.

This place is not for tourists. If you're not a local, eating at this joint involves no conversation just curt and shortly phrased commands intended to belittle you and make you feel as uncomfortable as possible. The place is poorly staffed and the team working the tables are extremely rude. When I saw that they were allowing other patrons to charge their phone, I asked whether I could do the same. The answer was a typical, not possible. The courses, as they arrive are slammed on the table. When you remind a waiter that a glass of wine was ordered to go with a particular course you'll get in response a crude, "what do you want". If they decide to sweep the crumbs off your table the waiter will just say "lift your glass". If they need a menu, they just take it off the table without asking, regardless of whether you need it or not.

There are many restaurants to choose from in the old section of Bergerac, but I think we stumbled upon the best of them. L'Imparfait is anything but "imperfect". We chose from the menu at 26€ from which you get either a starter and main course or a main and dessert. Before you order, they arrive with bread and a little pot of pate. For my starter I picked the salade Perigord which featured a bed of lettuce and a couple of tomato slices along with a couple of slices of smoked duck breast, a kind of fried pate meat ball (very good), a roll of duck confit in a pot of honey based sauce and creme brûlée that consists of foie gras and mustard which is one of the most amazing things I have ever tasted. My main course was magret de canard, cooked rare but not raw, was hot and not lukewarm and very tender. It had a delicate wine sauce and pureed potatoes on the side. Perfect. My wife had a roll of lotte (a fish fillet rolled up and sprinkled with lardons and peppers). It sat on a bed of white beans and vegetable mousse and she declared it to be incredible. Her dessert was advertised as creme brûlée but when it arrived it also featured a glass of raspberry mousse and a ball of chocolate ice cream on a wafer cup. Two excellent coffees arrived with biscuits and chocolate truffles as extras. This was hands down our best meal in France so far on this trip.