Zinqué
French restaurant · West Hollywood
8684 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood, CA 90069
Highlights
French-Californian bistro with wine focus, patio, and popular Le Bowl
French-Californian bistro with wine focus, patio, and popular Le Bowl
"Use Zinque as a place to grab dinner with somebody important and you’ll find the below-average mess of a restaurant that it actually is. Use it to drink a lot of wine with friends on their very pretty patio and cry over how much you hate your jobs, and it works perfectly. You can order a salad if you’re hungry and not eat it like everyone else here, but you’re drinking your dinner tonight and that’s exactly how you want it." - brant cox
"This sunny French bistro on Melrose doesn’t serve the best lunch in West Hollywood. It’s not even the best lunch on the block. But if you need to spiral with a friend over a bottle of white wine on a Wednesday afternoon, Zinqué is heaven. It’s walk-in only, there’s plenty of shade, and the various tartines and rice bowls do what they’re supposed to: fill you up so you can drink more wine. If you’re not near Weho, there are five more locations around town from Malibu to Downtown, but this remains Zinqué’s spiritual epicenter." - brant cox
"Zinque—excuse us, Zinqué—is one of those West Hollywood restaurants that endures wild swings in popularity for no reason, especially since it’s always been mediocre. Come here after work and drink some room-temperature white wine with a spiraling coworker on the patio, and you’ll be fine. Come here for an actual dinner and you’ll discover a restaurant that, despite being open for over a decade, is still dealing with first-week hiccups. The chances of you receiving your food in under an hour (or within a half hour of everyone else at your table) is low, so just stick to the chardonnay. Your pilot season anxiety needs it more than a bowl of arugula and purple rice anyway." - brant cox
"All-day DTLA restaurant Zinque is a spot where you’ll come in the morning to order some coffee and get a bit of work done, and before you know it, it’s 4pm, you’re three glasses of rosé deep, and have written half of a novel." - brett keating
"Zinque has several locations around town and they’re all open. That means the days of drinking too much rosé on their patio, snacking on tartines and their famous “Le Bowl,” and stumbling home on a Saturday night have returned. Hooray." - brett keating
