Le Petit Cochon

One of my top three favorite restaurants in Seattle for sure. Everything we had was amazing (pork tartare, lamb leg, and peanut butter brownie with burnt marshmallow ice cream). The combination of flavors was so unique, but perfectly balanced. I would have everything again in a heartbeat. The location, while not as easy to find, has a great vibe and service was top notch. Do yourselves a huge favor and check this place out!

Great food, better mixed drinks, awesome help. A bit more than I’d usually spend but the food was amazing and Tiffany (?) the bartender mixes a mean drink. Great conversation with the laid-​back patrons. Chicken slider sandwich and the pork belly corn dogs were highlights.

Four weeks ago yesterday, on the last Saturday in April, I met up with 3 college friends for our ~ every-​two-​month catch-​up/​escape the kids night! As the self-​proclaimed foodie, I am usually in charge of picking the restaurant as we ping-​pong between locations on the East and West sides of Lake Washington (we’re split down the middle in terms of home base.) I was kinda late this time to make the reservation and Bateau (where I originally planned us to dine) was booked solid, so after some research through my lengthy Unilocal bookmarks list, I settle on LPC. I figured if nothing else, at least parking would be easier than Cap Hill or most points south!
First of all, the door to the restau can be tricky to find… you see the neon lighted sign at the corner and expect to walk right in… but the entrance is tucked away uphill on 36^th a handful of yards from that point. But once in, it’s a very cozy, warm, and charming space one level up from street along Fremont. So if you get a window table like we did, it’s nice to soak in the people-​watching, especially on a sunny, warm day like we had!
As far as the dining, well… it was pretty delicious! We started with a complimentary amuse bouche… I no longer remember what was in it except for radish being the most predominent feature. It was hella yummy though and a great palate warmer.
We decided to order an appetizer for the table while deciding on our mains– the Chicago style corn bellies (tomato butter, relish, mustard aioli, celery salt). What was not to like? Crispy, crunchy, with perfectly prepared pork belly! And on a stick, no less :) Happy yummy, happy tummy! The plate comes with 3, but you can add on for $ 2 apiece.
For the mains, in my usual fashion, I stuck to a small plate (K.F.C.– Korean Fried Chicken– Slider w/​kimchi, pickled daikon, smoked egg ranch) and sampled each of my gf’s entrees– LPC Foie Burger, Fish & Chips, & Goat Cheese Raviolo. The Burger (45% Short Rib, 45% Brisket, 10% Bone Marrow, 100% Love LOL) was pretty incredible w/​Jones Family Farm Grass Fed Beef, salt cured foie, fig jam, truffle aioli, arugula pistou, red onion, & salted thyme chips on the side. Fish & Chips (Beer Battered Halibut, squid ink bao buns, tarter, potato strips, red cabbage slaw, grape & caper vin) was equally wonderful, with the perfect crispy-​crunchy freshly fried food feeling! My friend wouldn’t get anywhere near the black bao bun but I was happy to gobble it up and report back that it tasted just like a regular bao bun :) And the Raviolo (one lone giant one) was a hearty and tasty vegetarian option w/​cauliflower risotto, artichoke barigoule, pine nut vin, crispy pea vines. But I think the best of all was my KFC slider– giant by slider standards with a hulking piece of fried chicken overtaking the tiny brioche slider bun! We all ate every last bite of everything.
For drinks, we mostly did wine or beer… but I also thoroughly enjoyed my starter cocktail– the Tequila Moonrise (Celestial tequila blanco, cynar, orange blossom, and rhubard bitters). A glass of bubbly Italian rose (Riccante extra dry) and french sav blanc (’13 Jovly) rounded out my ‘meal’ pairings. My friends enjoyed their sangria, draft beer (Washington’s Holy Mountain The White Lodge Wit), and Italian red wine (’14 Scarpetta Barbera Del Monferrato).
We decided to skip dessert in favor of a stroll, a shared scoop at Fainting Goat, and liquid calories at an old stomping ground– the Red Door.
I would return in a heartbeat with hubby for the 6 or 9 course tasting menu!

The food was ¹⁰⁄₁₀ but the service was just alright.
We each got one entrée — mine was seared salmon which was amazing. It was tender and not dried, not too heavily seasoned. The vegetables were soft and not soggy. The sauce perfectly complemented the fish. I am excited to go back and try their other dishes. The ambience and interior décor were very nice as well.
However, the host and waitress could have been friendlier. They were not terrible but my expectations were a bit higher. Also, the tables were arranged too close to one another. The table behind me was occupied so when I pulled out my chair it touched the person behind me and I barely had enough room to sit comfortably (and I’m 108 lbs).

fantastic meal at Le Petit Cochon. Ordered charcuterie, duck breast, pork chop, salmon, the burger, and two of the salads. Everything was bursting with flavor. Meal portions and presentations were fantastic. Will be going back

The food was very good and delicious and the waiting staff very nice and fast. Unfortunately, the portions are a bit small for the price. However, the restaurant offered interesting foods and we will gladly go there again.

Happy hour was delish. Although I was disappointed that the duck Gizzards were not available, we enjoyed the Duck Feet, a totally new experience for me and I wanted to drink the hot sauce. The corn bellies were a perfect balance of crispy, salty and tender and the pickled vegetables they were served with were a perfect compliment. One friend and I each enjoyed a fried chicken slider. Sometimes with sliders, the bun to content ratio is far over weighted toward the bun. THIS slider had a sizeable piece of fried chicken with kale deliciousness.
But the burger. The burger was the star. It was a delicious work of art. Sadly I didn’t taste it because my friend threatened to stab me with his steak knife if I got near it. It was so good my normally articulate friend could only say «Mmmmmmm»
Happy Hour drink selection was solid. I’ll be back for that burger when I’m not so full from everything else.

Tres mediocre food at an inordinately high price. Too fancy for ketchup yet they serve onion rings? Nothing French about this place. The food was so salty I had to guzzle water the whole time. Their creative take on mushroom gnocchi was… interesting at best. My husband did enjoy his burger. Maybe this is a better place for meat lovers, but don’t offer vegetarian alternatives if you can’t do it well. Only bright spot was our server was sweet and when she forgot my ginger beer she comped it as well as my husband’s $ 12 beer.

This is the spot. Cozy atmosphere and great food! If you are looking for a great HH in Fremont, this is it.

How much do I love pork products, you ask? Enough to have a tattoo of bacon on my wrist. I’m a true lover of all things pork and so I have been thinking about eating at Cochon for about 2 years, since I first heard about it. For VDay we usually stay in Columbia City, and if we do go out it’s to somewhere close by. But something made me think we needed to take the plunge and not only leave CC, but also finally eat at Cochon. I can’t believe I ever have to eat anywhere else. This is a serious disappointment for me right now.
If you know me, you know I love reservations… it’s what I make best for dinner and waiting longer than a few minutes for a table is never something I’d choose. Lucky for me, Cochon does reservations… held with a debit card, but maybe that’s just because there was a tasting menu? Either way, I didn’t mind.
Cochon is warm and welcoming, with a super friendly staff and a quiet and cozy atmosphere. Maybe it’s just me, but I’m a huge fan of tasting menus. Something about the chef deciding what food you should eat and in what order always leaves me sated. This was a four plus course meal, that started off with a really solid oyster topped with roe, horseradish yogurt and micro celery, paired with a brut. It was a really good, large, first bite. I remember thinking, I hope the rest of the food is this good. I was in for quite the surprise.
The first course was sweetbreads and escargot on top of a salad of brussel sprouts, squash and treviso, on top of focaccia with black garlic purée. Each bite was spectacular. And when eaten with the paired wine, holy crap was it good! I came pretty close to licking the plate, but somehow I stopped myself.
The second course was a cocoa nib rubbed tuna loin, paired with some delightful garlicky spinach and sunchoke chips topped with the greatest food ever conceived — a bone marrow croûton. Holy crap, how could this possibly be better than the first course? I don’t know how, but it was. I could have eating several orders of this and I’m not even much of a fish lover. And once again the pairing was spot on, enhancing all of the flavors of the dish and making you want more.
The palate cleanser– an elderflower liqueur, gin, and champagne jello heart, was a random but delightful treat. I could have eaten a few more. Yum!
As if the first two courses weren’t the best things to dance across my tongue in recent past, the third course was everything I never knew I needed to eat. Oven roasted bacon over white beans and buttery clams in a a sweet potato purée, all topped with apple jam. Forget holy crap, this was the best damn food I’ve ever had. Every single bit was intensely, mouthwateringly delectable and paired with my favorite wine — a nebbiolo. I should say, I never, ever, ever eat beans. But today I threw caution to the wind and I just ate it all! I barely stopped myself from licking the plate this time. Though I did drag my fork back and forth to get one last bite.
Somehow, each incredibly fantastic course was better than the last supremely phenomenal course. It all culminated with the coconut custard topped with a strawberry and some crème fraîche. No almond sprinkle for me, but I didn’t miss it. And the pairing, some moscato like wine reminiscent of a white port, was exactly the way to finish the perfect valentines day tasting.
I could have never imagined dinner would be as good as it ended up being, though for the price, I feel like you should expect that. I would absolutely recommend Cochon to anyone who wants something delicious and inventive, well worth the cost. There are a lot of amazing restaurants in Seattle, but I’m a little sad that I can’t just eat at Cochon over and over again. If you have a chance to check out their tasting menus in the future, you should definitely do it.

The way this restaurant treats their meat is superb. I had, I think, the most perfectly cooked duck of my life here. The pork chop is actually worth the price tag. The rest of the experience left a little to be desired. They played this obnoxious (I assume) Yellowcard pandora station. The drinks were ok.
Most notably, we had let them know in the reservation that this was a special anniversary for us, but they must have not checked, because they didn’t bring it up. When I brought up that this was a special anniversary dinner for us, the server said, «Oh, happy anniversary», but it went otherwise unacknowledged. So while I am a carnivore and absolutely loved the meat (they get 4 stars just for that), at this price level, I think higher-​level service isn’t too much to ask. Probably not going back.

This place is amaze balls. The service is very friendly and amicable. The chef even checked on us, and asked if we enjoyed our meal, which was really cool.
The restaurant is cute and quaint with a very welcoming and cozy atmosphere. Not too big, but not at all cramped. Tables, bar, open kitchen to watch the action, check!
They recommend picking a couple smaller plates and 1 – 2 entrees to share, or go with the chef’s tasting menu. We chose a few different items because one of the picks on the chef’s tasting menu was lamb… Unfortunately, I steer clear of lamb, cause the last 3x I tried to eat it, it made me sicky :-(.
We started with the beet salad and pork tartare. Both items were recommended by our server, and I saw that the beet salad came with bone marrow croutons. It was like crispy fried juicy fat, deeeelicious :-). The pork tartare had some peanuts in it, the texture and flavor were wonderful. Definitely much different from steak tartare in my mind. For the mains we got the black cod and «phat ass» pork chop. The black cod was buttery and rich. The shrimp bisque was just the right amount of salty and complimented the fish well. The pork chop was huuuuge and juicy. The kim chee slaw that came with it added a nice spice and hint of sweetness to the pork chop. We ended with the bread pudding with foie gras ice cream. It was the right amount of sweet, and the foie gras ice cream kind of tasted like salted caramel, yum!
Everything was phenomenal tasting and we had a wonderful dining experience. They didn’t make us feel bad for taking our time even though it was nearing closing time and we were the last people there. That’s always a plus :-).

Mediocre food. Terrible service. Overpriced. The atmosphere is nice. Well, the atmosphere minus the too-​cool-​for-​school servers.
I’ve been here twice and had most things on the menu. Most of the dishes were forgettable — plagued by too much salt and surrounded by a sea of blandly fried items. The best items were their corn and their fried cauliflower. But when two random sides are your best items, you know something isn’t right. And let’s not forget how absurdly priced each item is. Really not worth it.
The service has always been awful. Both times the waitresses seemed annoyed that they had to be waiting on our tables. Awesome.
Skip it and go to Brimmer and Heeltap or another self-​described gastropub in the area.

Probably the best meal I’ve had in Seattle since moving here. I went here for my birthday and we ordered the Foie Burger and the ‘Phat Ass’ Pork Chop, both of which were sublime.
The burger’s meat was mouth wateringly tender and juicy with the perfect balance of salt from the meat and sweetness from the plum jam. The bread was buttery and delicious as well.
The pork chop was also perfection. It was seasoned perfectly and cooked just to the perfect level of tenderness. It arrived at the end of the dinner when we were both full and we still ate the ENTIRE thing.

Ok I think I’m over gastropubs. The food was good, don’t get me wrong, but the tiny portions and the super in depth explanation of what’s on my plate… I’m over it.
We got the tasting menu and had gone for Boyfriend’s birthday. When the amuse bouche came out, Boyfriend made the fun comment of «how hilarious would it be if all the dishes were this big??» and omg they were. Which made me very sad and very angry all at the same time. Cuz if I’m gonna drop $ 250 on a dinner, I kinda expect to be full at the end. But I was sad because the food was delicious, if in tiny tiny portions. Basically, there was enough for about 2 bites per course. There was a lovely grilled watermelon soup and an absolutely divine tartar and don’t even get me started on the foie gras ice cream (yes you read that right)…BUT I WANT MORE!!!
At the end of the meal, the waitress asked if we would like to order a «fatass porkchop» (yup that’s the name and it looks amazing” for an extra however much it was. …after $ 250, I expect not to be hungry and terns definitely not to need a huge porkchop. …and the only reason I didn’t order it (cuz I was sure hungry enough) was that I was still angry about the tiny portions.
If I ever wanna pay a restaurant to help me lose weight by starving me and taking my money, this is where it’s at.

In order to justify 3 Benjamins for 4 people, this place needs to really step up their flavoring/​seasoning game.
The quality of their ingredients could not be better. And the plating is great. And the range of flavors was admirable (if you could taste them over NaCl).
The issues were that the service is slower than the I-​5 in rush hour. The potent smokiness of the air in the restaurant will give you flashbacks of Munster gas back when trench warfare was the mode.
But all those issues could be overlooked IF the little pig could just use less salt.
I now have high blood pressure and am in need of some potent hyper-​tension meds.
The burger was so salty that it burned my tongue. And it was raw to the point that sinew gets stuck in your teeth. Yeah. That raw.
And then to really get my heartbeat felt in my eyeballs, the pork chop was so damn salty that a horse could use it as a salt lick.
Even the cod was drenched in a salt (teriyaki-​like) sauce that made the fish itself untasteable.
We ordered 1 bottle of high quality red to share. It wasn’t your Barolo or Barbaresco, or Brunello, but it was just as tasty.

The food here is AMAZING, probably the best food I’ve ever eaten ever. The phat ass pork chop is so good you just want to cry the whole time because everything you’ve ever eaten up to that point couldn’t possibly even come close to how good it is. Even if your a non– pork chop eater (I thought I was) this is the exception. The guys who make this stuff truly care

I am hesitant to write this review because I fear this spot will become the popular 2 – 3 weeks in advance reservation restaurant it should be.
I am visiting Seattle for a week and a friend of mine said you have to try this little secret place called.
Le petit Cochon.
It reminds me of a well kept secret of which only a local would know. Then you step inside this modern, intimate setting with an intriguing play list and it makes you feel excited for what’s to come. My friend and I had the tasting menu with a wine pairing and it was a wonderful experience. From watching the chefs prepare the food in a visible, open kitchen, to the stunning presentation on the plate garnished by the lovely wait staff. This little tucked away gem is something special.
The wonderful farm to table local ingredients and immaculate technique make up the outstanding cuisine you get to par-​take in at Le petit Cochon. The exceptional dinner I had, can only be truly experienced by tasting it yourself. And yes, if your near Fremont Seattle, I highly recommend you dedicate some of your paycheck to this splendid & original restaurant.

I think I have gastro pub fatigue. You can’t improve mediocre food by heaping a bunch of bs on top.
1) burger completely raw in the middle. Also too much going on. Burgers don’t need four kinds of meat and bone marrow to be good.
2) awful service. Not only awkward but extremely spotty. Waitress too soft spoken for such a loud atmosphere, plus she disappeared randomly for very long stretches.
3) good instincts on a lot of dishes but mostly clunky and poorly flavored. Both desserts were outright unpleasant.
4) huge deal made about foie up to and including a drawing on the bathroom wall encouraging you to eat more, only for there to be zero foie gras on order.
5) pretentious as all get out thing on the back of the menu about how they’re just so passionate, and it’s okay to be «gaudy» and «passionate» because their food will make you feel new feelings. Give me a break.
This place is proof that best restaurant lists in this town have very little to do with the actual food.
Highlights: fried duck feet, scallop and cheek

Despite our best intentions to try Le Petit Cochon right when they opened we finally managed to dine here only about a year and a half late.
Aside from having the best sign in Seattle (Noble Gasses are dope) they have one of the most creative and delicious menus I’ve been lucky enough to try. The «Corn Bellies» were amazing, imagine roasted pork belly corn dogs. Not drooling yet? Add some pickled mustard greens. Still not enough? Drench those bad boys in fondue! Amazing. The Pig Ear Salad was another unassuming dish that blew us away. But the show stopper was the Pork Shank. This iteration was served «Asian» style with house pickled «Kim-​Chi» vegetables and one of the best pork dashis I’ve ever tasted. I’d avoid the Lardo toast next time, there just wasn’t enough to it to warrant the stomach space.
Here is where I docked a star. Le Petit Cochon presents itself as a small plate, family style restaurant. I love that concept but their execution was lacking. Our group of 3 only got 3 Corn Bellies and every other order had four… The Lardo Toast came on two big pieces of baguette, when they could have easily given us 3 smaller pieces. And the biggest disappointment was the «Pinch Bread» (Chinese Steam Bun) with the Shank. Two small buns for three people. If you are going to short us a corn bellie at least throw us a few extra little buns!
All of that aside the food, cocktails, and service was phenomenal and well worth another dine here. Come to open your horizons and you wont be disappointed.