The Brooklyn neighborhoods Boerum Hill and Cobble Hill are notable for the large number of young families, rows of enviable brownstones and good restaurants. Among this last group, you’ll find the perfect number of French spots to stop at for all of the necessary meals of the day.
Breakfast
Bien Cuit, located on Boerum Hill’s main drag, Smith Street, is renowned for its bread. Go early to get a perfectly crusty baguette or even a five-pound miche. But if you are just eating for one, the bakery has a number of its larger loaves available as petit pains. You can also find a range of breakfast pastries from the traditional croissant to items with a twist, like the chocolate orange brioche.
Lunch
The Atlantic Avenue bistro Bacchus serves up all of the traditional French bistro dishes, 
like salade niçoise and moules frites, but you’ll also find a fair number of pastas and sandwiches, making for an extensive lunch menu. On the weekends, the menu includes many of the lunch items but ads a large selection of oeufs and omelettes and a variety of crepes. And as the name implies, you’ll find a wine to go with whatever meal you order.
Gouter
Marquet Patisserie was once the only French bakery in the area. When the first location opened on Smith Street in the late 1980s, the croissants were named the best in New 
York City by the New York Times.
Lynne and Jean-Pierre Marquet (she’s originally from Alabama while he emigrated from Paris) moved their bakery to Court Street in Cobble Hill in 2003, but not much else has changed within the patisserie where you can still find delicious pastries and viennoiserie.
Dinner
Bar Tabac, on Smith Street, seems as though it was designed with the Francophile in mind. The artfully antiqued interior is warm and inviting and the menu is perfectly traditional. In the evenings you can enjoy live jazz as you dine on “bistro bites” or a full entrée and, of course, take advantage of the wine list.
By Monica Burton
