Best of 7 French restaurants in Downtown Brooklyn NYC

Bacchus Wine Bar and Restaurant is located in a historic building in Buffalo's downtown entertainment district.
“Owner Steven Ventura and his staff are incredible and are clearly motivated by their own passions and personal ties to the producers they support. Dirty Bacchus manages to be warm and welcoming, it's not just a "nerdy wine shop." It's about finding these small independent producers, many of whom Steven has actually cultivated direct personal relationships with. He finds a way to cobble together enough bottles to have $18 bottles along with more expensive ones. Expect offerings from New York and regional winemakers, but also really interesting Burgundy for under $40 a bottle. It's like the perfect record store for wine: you go in for what you want, but you find all these things you never knew about.” —Joe Appel, winemaker at R.A.S. Wines

With crispy trout fillets instead of the more common tuna, this salad is not to be missed.
Here's an idea: call in sick to work, put on your poutiest lipstick, and head to this French cafe with the used paperback you've wanted to read since you bought it on the banks of the Seine during your year abroad. Then, drink an espresso and eat tartines and buckwheat crepes in the morning and duck confit or mussels with fries later. 108 Franklin St., Brooklyn; lesdeuxgamins.com