The Room
Cafe Campagne opened in Post Alley in 1994, Daisley Gordon and the Le Pichet group's first French dining room in Seattle, predating Le Pichet by six years. The dining room runs French-cafe service all day from 8am to 10pm, with the weekend brunch programme drawing diners from across the city.
The Eater Seattle list has held Cafe Campagne on its top-Pike-Place rankings every year of operation. The Post Alley address is one of the most-distinctive Pike Place dining-room locations, the alley is one of the area's quiet cobblestone-passage retreats from the main market crowd.
The Food
The menu runs French-cafe-classic. The croissant, the omelette, the croque monsieur run the breakfast programme. The steak frites, the country-style pâté, the seasonal-rotating French specials handle the lunch and dinner end. The brunch service includes a serious eggs-and-bacon-and-Champagne French programme.
Wine programme runs French. Cocktails are classic-French. Service is the warm, informed register a thirty-year-old French cafe earns by attrition.
Best Occasion Fit
First Date: The bar at Cafe Campagne is one of Pike Place's most-reliable casual first-date seats. The all-day French menu shares well, the wine programme is the conversation, and the Post Alley setting reads as warm without becoming theatrical.
Birthday: Birthdays at Cafe Campagne are warm, French-cafe-led, candle-on-the-pastry affairs the room has hosted for thirty-one years.
Solo Dining: The bar at Cafe Campagne is one of the better Seattle solo-dining seats for the casual register. The all-day menu fills the meal, the wine programme is the conversation.
