Food is amazing! Normally French food is so meat forward but St. Jack has many veggies options, just love this place!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
raul yrastorza
The cocktails and N/A cocktails were spot on. The food executed with care. The flavors of our food were bold and delicious. The mussels are outstanding.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Baguette & Butter, Mussels Provencal, Fries by Any Other Name
Eric Leys
Staff is excellent. Cheese selection is wonderful, we enjoy the Roquefort tremendously. Do yourself a favor and try Le Hamburger.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Steak Frites Bavette
Darcy Joan Gabriele
This may have emerged as my favorite restaurant in Portland, and we rarely eat French food.The service was PERFECT. I loved the entire wait staff. The attentiveness was the right balanced - the second our glasses were empty someone promptly came over to ask if we wanted something else (we did!). But it wasn’t so over the top that we felt interrupted every five minutes, which is my problem with most upper scale restaurants in PDX.The atmosphere was great! Cozy and warm and everyone was laughing. You can just tell happy people come here and people are happy while there. And we actually showed up a little hangry!And of course, the food was exceptional.I need to give the tartare its own paragraph for a second. We literally made a note in our phones that it was hands down the best tartare we have ever had, because we never want to forget it. I’ve never had tartare like it before! Usually I want to pair it with whatever vessel it comes with, but this one I wanted to eat purely on its own and enjoy every single second. It was just wow!The rest of the food ranked extremely high as well! We ordered the moules (10/10- every single one was perfect and the broth was the right balance of flavor), the mushroom torte (9.5/10- the flavors were so unique. This could have gotten its own paragraph but it was just a tad oversalted), the little pastries with cream and onions inside (9/10), oysters (10/10), and the Aubergine (5/10). We honestly LOVED every dish. The Aubergine can quickly become a 10 because the toppings and flavors are so good but it needs to be cooked down. The eggplant was almost raw.Anyway, we will happily be back. We loved it!
I can’t say enough good things about how amazing our meal and service was for my birthday dinner! Everything was SO good in all the ways. We sat in the bar, and the burger blew my mind how good it was. The cold snap of lettuce fit perfectly in the soft and smoky layers of cheese, mayo, bacon, beef… on the softest brioche bun. worth the trip for that alone! I can’t wait to go back!Vegetarian options: We found enough vegetarian options but it’s much easier if you are a little flexitarian since if you can tolerate a small presence of meat or fish essence or fat in a sauce, it opens up a lot of the menu. My wife is vegetarian and found it very worth the trip.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Baguette & Butter, Butter Lettuce Salad, Fries by Any Other Name, Paté
Jon Elliott
Excellent service, delicious food (recommend the scallop crudo and beef tartare!), and really nice atmosphere - upscale but not stuffy.My two complaints are the cocktails are nearly $20 a piece and very small (just skip and order beer/wine), and the baguette was cold and dry (100% not worth the $7 price tag).
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Gibson Washout
Ok been here a million times and it’s always good but tonight we had a dish that’s smoked carrots wrapped in chard with salmon roe and it’s the best thing ever
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
John Halsey
We just stopped in for a cocktail. But we ended up getting 3 cocktails and oysters. Super friendly bartenders, amazing cocktails, and excellent oysters. We plan to come back to try the full dinner menu.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Madison Adams
Frenchish martini was one of the best cocktails I have ever had. All food was quite delicious however my husband was underwhelmed by the steak frites. Service was friendly but could have been more attentive.
Highly recommend Escargot dish. It was my favorite dish of the night. The servers was very attentive. Overall, we really enjoyed our dinner experience.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Escargot
James P.
I very honestly do not quite grasp what it is about this place that has Portlanders all breathless to get a table. I will say straight off the bat: The team that works the place are all very nice. My partner and I had dinner there for my birthday last night, as we were visiting Portland on business, and it seemed to be the buzziest place in town. We are both from major cities, and we met in London, have lived for years in Manhattan, also in San Francisco and LA: We're not strangers to buzzy restaurants and how they work. To begin, the menu was extremely limited. Not much choice, but not in a good way. Obviously one does not expect pages and pages in a fine restaurant. The menu was in French. I am French. There were grammatical errors, and other questionable pretensions. We could not decide what we wanted as nothing at all seemed appetizing, so we settled on jumbo prawn cocktail to start, because how can you mess that up? Well--apparently, that can happen--by serving what tasted exactly like supermarket frozen shrimp, and calling them "Jumbo prawns," then concocting the most bizarre dipping sauce in the history of seafood: Some kind of mayonnaise with curry, and shed loads of cumin in it. Revolting. We asked for something else, and were brought what looked and tasted like jarred mayonnaise of the "Best Foods" variety, and some horseradish sauce, which I mixed together then added a little lemon: There was no salt cellar on the table or pepper grind, so that was all we could manage: The smell of the original sauce they had served was the same as a cheap Mexican restaurant. We sat looking at tails and smelling that atrocious sauce for far too long, but finally we asked for another round (there were only five tiny shrimp per order) and suggested that we be brought some catsup and horseradish along with some lemon: No dice. They "don't have catsup," because, as the waiter explained, they were a "hoity toity" (his word) place. Next step: There was virtually nothing on the main course menu other than steak frites that sounded remotely edible, so, not willing to settle for steak frites, because why, I got adventurous and ordered something called "Pigeon Gothique" (Roast squab) and my partner ordered steak Tartare. Huge mistakes, both. The squab was impossible to eat, and featured two giant claws staring up at you, and was absolutely drowned in A1 steak sauce, or something that tasted exactly like an overdose of vinegar in barbecue sauce, on an empty plate, with a puddle of yet more barbecue sauce: I got two bites out of it. It was tough. Just not edible. My partners "steak tartare" was so revolting she could not eat more than a mouthful. Then we got "L'addition," and found we had been charged for every single extra bit of mayonnaise, every squirt of horseradish, and as a finale, for me at the end, the waiter, who was very nice, came rushing over to bend over backwards to excuse the staff for forgetting the birthday desert my partner had arranged in advance, as a surprise. The entire experience just kept getting more surreal. We had a fun time trying to eat our impossible dinners, and joking with the waiter. My partner paid the bill without asking any questions, only because we had just had enough. We both love Portland to bits: We usually have great food in the City. This place, though, um, it needs some work, to put it kindly.
John Stallings
This was a flawless experience all around....food was spectacular, great service, great pace of the meal, great atmosphere. We shared a number of dishes, everything was outstanding. The tartare was one of the best things I've eaten in quite some time. 5 stars, can't wait to eat here again.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Steak Frites Bavette
Courtney Sellers
What an incredible experience. We went here for our 10-year wedding anniversary and had the time of our lives. The food was out of this world. We started with the bread, gougeres and escargot. Amazing. Then we had the steak frites with a New York cut. Seasoned perfectly, medium-rare was spot on. Lastly, we chose three cheeses to end the evening with. They were all incredible. We enjoyed our experience at the chef's counter. The staff was incredibly attentive and obviously took pride in their work. It was cool to watch them work together to provide all of us with what can only be described as art. It was our first visit at St. Jack's and we will be back. Also, we haven't had a meal in Portland that matched this quality for the price.
Food is amazing! Normally French food is so meat forward but St. Jack has many veggies options, just love this place!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
The cocktails and N/A cocktails were spot on. The food executed with care. The flavors of our food were bold and delicious. The mussels are outstanding.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Baguette & Butter, Mussels Provencal, Fries by Any Other Name
Staff is excellent. Cheese selection is wonderful, we enjoy the Roquefort tremendously. Do yourself a favor and try Le Hamburger.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Steak Frites Bavette
This may have emerged as my favorite restaurant in Portland, and we rarely eat French food.The service was PERFECT. I loved the entire wait staff. The attentiveness was the right balanced - the second our glasses were empty someone promptly came over to ask if we wanted something else (we did!). But it wasn’t so over the top that we felt interrupted every five minutes, which is my problem with most upper scale restaurants in PDX.The atmosphere was great! Cozy and warm and everyone was laughing. You can just tell happy people come here and people are happy while there. And we actually showed up a little hangry!And of course, the food was exceptional.I need to give the tartare its own paragraph for a second. We literally made a note in our phones that it was hands down the best tartare we have ever had, because we never want to forget it. I’ve never had tartare like it before! Usually I want to pair it with whatever vessel it comes with, but this one I wanted to eat purely on its own and enjoy every single second. It was just wow!The rest of the food ranked extremely high as well! We ordered the moules (10/10- every single one was perfect and the broth was the right balance of flavor), the mushroom torte (9.5/10- the flavors were so unique. This could have gotten its own paragraph but it was just a tad oversalted), the little pastries with cream and onions inside (9/10), oysters (10/10), and the Aubergine (5/10). We honestly LOVED every dish. The Aubergine can quickly become a 10 because the toppings and flavors are so good but it needs to be cooked down. The eggplant was almost raw.Anyway, we will happily be back. We loved it!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Mussels Provencal, Steak Tartare
I can’t say enough good things about how amazing our meal and service was for my birthday dinner! Everything was SO good in all the ways. We sat in the bar, and the burger blew my mind how good it was. The cold snap of lettuce fit perfectly in the soft and smoky layers of cheese, mayo, bacon, beef… on the softest brioche bun. worth the trip for that alone! I can’t wait to go back!Vegetarian options: We found enough vegetarian options but it’s much easier if you are a little flexitarian since if you can tolerate a small presence of meat or fish essence or fat in a sauce, it opens up a lot of the menu. My wife is vegetarian and found it very worth the trip.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Baguette & Butter, Butter Lettuce Salad, Fries by Any Other Name, Paté
Excellent service, delicious food (recommend the scallop crudo and beef tartare!), and really nice atmosphere - upscale but not stuffy.My two complaints are the cocktails are nearly $20 a piece and very small (just skip and order beer/wine), and the baguette was cold and dry (100% not worth the $7 price tag).
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Ok been here a million times and it’s always good but tonight we had a dish that’s smoked carrots wrapped in chard with salmon roe and it’s the best thing ever
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
We just stopped in for a cocktail. But we ended up getting 3 cocktails and oysters. Super friendly bartenders, amazing cocktails, and excellent oysters. We plan to come back to try the full dinner menu.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Frenchish martini was one of the best cocktails I have ever had. All food was quite delicious however my husband was underwhelmed by the steak frites. Service was friendly but could have been more attentive.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Mussels Provencal, Escargot
Food was good, not great. Definitely overpriced.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 4
Restaurantji Recommends
Amazing food, even better service, and beautiful ambiance. One of the best restaurants in all of Portland, and thats saying a lot.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Baguette & Butter, Steak Frites Bavette, Butter Lettuce Salad, Olives, Chicken Liver Mousse
Highly recommend Escargot dish. It was my favorite dish of the night. The servers was very attentive. Overall, we really enjoyed our dinner experience.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Escargot
I very honestly do not quite grasp what it is about this place that has Portlanders all breathless to get a table. I will say straight off the bat: The team that works the place are all very nice. My partner and I had dinner there for my birthday last night, as we were visiting Portland on business, and it seemed to be the buzziest place in town. We are both from major cities, and we met in London, have lived for years in Manhattan, also in San Francisco and LA: We're not strangers to buzzy restaurants and how they work. To begin, the menu was extremely limited. Not much choice, but not in a good way. Obviously one does not expect pages and pages in a fine restaurant. The menu was in French. I am French. There were grammatical errors, and other questionable pretensions. We could not decide what we wanted as nothing at all seemed appetizing, so we settled on jumbo prawn cocktail to start, because how can you mess that up? Well--apparently, that can happen--by serving what tasted exactly like supermarket frozen shrimp, and calling them "Jumbo prawns," then concocting the most bizarre dipping sauce in the history of seafood: Some kind of mayonnaise with curry, and shed loads of cumin in it. Revolting. We asked for something else, and were brought what looked and tasted like jarred mayonnaise of the "Best Foods" variety, and some horseradish sauce, which I mixed together then added a little lemon: There was no salt cellar on the table or pepper grind, so that was all we could manage: The smell of the original sauce they had served was the same as a cheap Mexican restaurant. We sat looking at tails and smelling that atrocious sauce for far too long, but finally we asked for another round (there were only five tiny shrimp per order) and suggested that we be brought some catsup and horseradish along with some lemon: No dice. They "don't have catsup," because, as the waiter explained, they were a "hoity toity" (his word) place. Next step: There was virtually nothing on the main course menu other than steak frites that sounded remotely edible, so, not willing to settle for steak frites, because why, I got adventurous and ordered something called "Pigeon Gothique" (Roast squab) and my partner ordered steak Tartare. Huge mistakes, both. The squab was impossible to eat, and featured two giant claws staring up at you, and was absolutely drowned in A1 steak sauce, or something that tasted exactly like an overdose of vinegar in barbecue sauce, on an empty plate, with a puddle of yet more barbecue sauce: I got two bites out of it. It was tough. Just not edible. My partners "steak tartare" was so revolting she could not eat more than a mouthful. Then we got "L'addition," and found we had been charged for every single extra bit of mayonnaise, every squirt of horseradish, and as a finale, for me at the end, the waiter, who was very nice, came rushing over to bend over backwards to excuse the staff for forgetting the birthday desert my partner had arranged in advance, as a surprise. The entire experience just kept getting more surreal. We had a fun time trying to eat our impossible dinners, and joking with the waiter. My partner paid the bill without asking any questions, only because we had just had enough. We both love Portland to bits: We usually have great food in the City. This place, though, um, it needs some work, to put it kindly.
This was a flawless experience all around....food was spectacular, great service, great pace of the meal, great atmosphere. We shared a number of dishes, everything was outstanding. The tartare was one of the best things I've eaten in quite some time. 5 stars, can't wait to eat here again.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Steak Frites Bavette
What an incredible experience. We went here for our 10-year wedding anniversary and had the time of our lives. The food was out of this world. We started with the bread, gougeres and escargot. Amazing. Then we had the steak frites with a New York cut. Seasoned perfectly, medium-rare was spot on. Lastly, we chose three cheeses to end the evening with. They were all incredible. We enjoyed our experience at the chef's counter. The staff was incredibly attentive and obviously took pride in their work. It was cool to watch them work together to provide all of us with what can only be described as art. It was our first visit at St. Jack's and we will be back. Also, we haven't had a meal in Portland that matched this quality for the price.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Steak Frites Bavette, Gougères, Escargot