Restaurant Marche

We have been wanting to try this restaurant for quite sometime now. The ambience is nice and the service was great too. The taste of the food fell a bit short. We got the bread rolls (which tasted great), green pea flan, tuna tartare, pasta of the day and the lamb chops. The lamb chops were a bit too salty and the staff was nice enough to get us another plate. Unfortunately, the second one was a bit too rare for us. The warm date cake was pretty good - the orange sorbet that comes along with it is delicious.

We’ve been dining here for many years and still love it after a three year absence. Chef Greg and Betsey do an amazing job turning out excellent food and warm, friendly service. We ate here twice during our most recent stay on Bainbridge. First night we sat at the bar - they were at full capacity - and had a great meal of seared fresh wild salmon and mussels & frites. Our server was warm and wonderful and we had a great chat with Betsey about their creative cocktail program. Chef’s house made rolls with cultured butter is a must have here! They are warm and crusty and perfect. Everything he makes is great. There are no bad choices. So happy to see it thriving in this challenging time for the hospitality industry. Marche is a gem worth seeking out.

If you’re looking for traditional French food, this isn’t the place. Like another review said, there is actually more American dishes than French ones. But! The mussels were really good though. (Et si vous êtes bretons, les moules frites, ça nous connaît. Celles ci étaient délicieuses. La sauce était parfaite.) The crème brûlée was meh. Cracked well on top but that’s the only good thing about it. Service was good, waiter was great. It’s a nice restaurant.

It’s okay. Definitely not what I would consider a traditional French restaurant. The menu covers more American comfort dishes like meatloaf. Nothing was bad, but nothing was great, and the dessert portions are very small. The staff were nice but the service didn’t warrant the built in gratuity rate. For the price you can definitely get better food at other restaurants within walking distance of this.

It's been nearly 3 years since we've been back to Marché due to the pandemic and it was SOOO nice to be back. What's lovely about Marché is that there's nothing fussy or super unexpected on the menu, but everything is just perfectly well done. Chef utilizes whatever he gets from the local farms and finds creative way to get them on the menu. The market salad with endive, arugula and rasberries was a beautiful way to start a meal. My wife got the chicken special that also had rasberries and it was perfectly cooked. The chicken was juicy and flavorful with a pan sauce with rasberries that made for a lovely dinner in the sun on the patio. I had the king salmon with grilled leeks, rhubarb sauce and fingerling potatoes. Salmon with rhubarb is great! Who knew?? The salmon was cooked perfectly. 5 stars, not because it's mind-blowing, but because it's all super good and perfectly done.

Probably one of the worst and overpriced meals I've had in Kitsap County. My party of 3 only liked the pea flan. Everything else was utterly disappointing and we didn't finish any of the dishes. The French onion soup was especially bad and tasted like it was made by someone who had never had it before. The other thing we didn't care for was being charged a "dine-in" service charge which was basically a forced tip with only a portion of it going to the staff. I would've happily tipped our server 20% because she was the only redeeming factor to this place, but I hate when restaurants charge these extra fees without advising customers. It's just shady and deceptive. Our bill was over $200 with no drinks and no dessert.