Bacco Cafe — Restaurant in Seattle

Outstanding breakfast and they open at 7a, even on Sundays! Several breakfast places do not open on Sunday, some don’t open on Mondays, and several don’t open until 8a or 9a. Bacco opens at 7a daily. As an east coast person, I really appreciate a good restaurant to go early.

This is my third visit. Each time I arrived five minutes before they opened and there’s always a line of 8-10 people waiting. By 7.30a all the tables are taken and there’s a waiting line forming down the street. This is a very good restaurant, with good food and great service. It is small but they accommodate many patrons with tables inside and outside. There’s also a second dining area downstairs which opens a little later.

I have only been there for breakfast. I have had the Quiche Lorraine, Biscuits and Gravy and now the Eggs Benedict. All of the dishes are prepared carefully and accurately. My order is always delivered just like I ordered it. Today I ordered a side of bacon with my eggs Benedict and felt like the bacon was cooked recently. I may be wrong, but it tasted like something left over from the prior day. It was not warm like freshly made food and definitely not crispy. This is the ONLY deficient part of the three meals I had at Bacco.

The Eggs Benedict were cooked perfectly. And the hollandaise sauce was very good. When I had the Quiche Lorraine on a previous visit, I thought the same thing. Perfectly made. An excellent example of traditional Quiche Lorraine, traditional eggs Benedict.

Their coffees are excellent as well. I had a cappuccino today and at after I finished my breakfast, an espresso. Great coffee.

All around a great place for breakfast and very dependable food quality. After three visits I found the food consistently well prepared and as expected. They make these dishes consistent with tradition and as a result you get a predictable and satisfying meal. Definitely worth visiting when you...

Walked in around 9am on a weekday...and stood for about 10min...at the end of that 10 ish minutes every customer in the VERY SMALL restaurant had acknowledged myself and my friend with direct eye contact and almost a continuous "stare" but at no point in those ~10min did a single employee acknowledge us or even look in our direction...after another minute or so of trying to get an employees attention...to bo avail...my friend and I promptly and gladly took our patronage elsewhere...and had a very delicious breakfast at a wonderful restaurant just two blocks away...which by the way had very kind and attentive service...so needless to say I can't rate the food since I never got a chance to even see a menu because the staff clearly had something more important going on or whatever...than to welcome us into their establishment...and that's putting it very politely... I wouldn't give it "0" stars if that were an option...because it would be unfair to the cooks who never got close to having a chance of showing us what they were made of...but my advice to the manger(s) and/or owners is to look into what was happening with/for your staff on Wednesday February 19, 2025 morning around 9am...because they effectively convinced me to take my business elsewhere and I'm not likely to forget that experience anytime in the near future...and that could be a very dangerous snowball of it finds its way to rolling down hill...if you catch my drift. Wishing you the best in your future endeavors and hopefully everything gets sorta out ASAP...hit me up when you've got it all straightened out...because I would love to give the cooks their chance to show me what the heart (cooks = heart of any good restaurant) of your restaurant has...

Stopped in for a midmorning breakfast on a cold Seattle Thursday. Place is small, but tidy. Seated immediately, but it filled in quickly. The menu for breakfast has many nice sounding choices. We selected a goat and spinach omelet and the Dungeness crab benedict. We also had two lattes. The coffee was strong, but smoothed out after a few sips. It was hot, and that was nice. Not sure if it's the usual process, or if something was wrong today, but the food was not cooked in house, rather brought (covered with a cloche) to the restaurant from elsewhere. This reduced the temperature of hot food, as one would imagine. The crab benedict was not good. The crab was strong and old. The poached eggs were lovely. Cooked very nicely, but suffered from being exposed to the cold trip from offsite kitchen to restaurant. The salad that came with it was nothing other than mixed lettuce with some sort of vinaigrette dressing. The English muffin was soggy. I did not eat it. The omelet was better. Although served with the aforementioned pile of dressed lettuce masquerading as a salad, it didn't have any old crab in it. That was a blessing. The biscuit that came with it is large in circumference but fairly flat. It was ok, not buttery, instead dry. The service was rudimentary. No one came back to check once we'd received our meals. If there had been follow up I'd have mentioned the unpleasant tasting crab. Please note, you won't be told about the service charge levied when using a credit card, until you get your receipt. We used our card anyway, but it would have been nice to know this ahead of time. So, we'll try another place,...