Le Rouge Restaurant - Grand Junction

I went here for the first time this evening! The bartender had bubbly personality and the drinks were fantastic! I will definitely become a regular at this business seeing as the aesthetic and Vivacious energy was exactly what I was looking for. 10/10 would recommend

The duck was good however the other 4 dishes at our table were palatable to really bad so go for the duck and service but don't expect alot

The menu *sounded* great. We ordered the charcuterie plate and crab cakes. The quality of what arrived for the charcuterie plate was a joke. No French bread, crackers from a box that more suited to a children 's lunch than a modern French restaurant . And the meat was also very low quality and looked and tasted like it was grocery store brand deli counter meat. The cheses were also of low quality and a step above american cheese. The crab cakes were sour and lacked depth of flavor. Will not be back.

TLDR: Expensive, LOUD, Horrible Service, Terrible Food (COVERED in pepper! . They want to be upscale and sure charge you like an upscale place, but this is merely a step above a corner bar. My wife and I went out for a Valentine 's dinner the day AFTER Valentine 's. When we arrived the bar was full, busy and SO LOUD! The dinning area was less than half full. There was no hostess, and after a few minutes a waiter came to talk to us and said he would have a table ready in a few minutes. He took us to a table behind the bar, not in the quieter, less busy dining area (despite asking us if we were there for a full dinner . We were sat at a TINY table for two. It was a SMALL bar table. He filled our glasses with luke warm tap water and said he would be back for our orders. I opted for the Lobster and Filet for $50, and my wife got the Salmon FIlet. He brought us some bread after about 10min, and then we realized that we didn 't have napkins. We had just run out of water and when he came back my wife ordered a drink, and we expected him to bring some water. Our water glasses were empty and it took him almost another 10min to fill them. He apologized and said that the bar was backed up and they were busy and I will get to you when I can !!!!!! My wife and I just stared at each other in awe! Of course the bar was backed up, she was serving tables, making drinks, and let 's not forget hanging out and chatting with friends next to the bar, or with people sitting in the back. Oh yes, the people in the back. There were couches behind my wife, and the group behind her were talking about some of the most inappropriate and disgusting things. They were SO loud that we gave up trying talk to each other, we sat across from each other texting. After about 40min our meals finally arrived. Her Salmon was not what she was expecting at all, and my mine wasn 't really either. I either expected a slightly larger steak, or more lobster. Instead I got MAYBE two Tablespoons of Lobster covered in sauce that had so much pepper it burned my mouth! It was completely inedible! It looked like there were whole peppercorn in the sauce! My steak, while cooked to the correct color, was NOT juicy at all. The outside was kind of tough. The menu said it would have a Bearnaise. I guess that was the sauce on the Lobster. I DID see that it said Peppercorn Bearnaise , and I 've had it elsewhere and it wasn 't made with 99% pepper! The potatoes under the steak did NOT soak up the juices, and the black stuff under the potatoes was also pepper flavored. The little tomatoes tasted as if they were cooked with shrimp. As for my wife 's. You can see all the pepper on her plate, and there was so much on and in the salmon that she spent half the meal trying to scrape it off. For all the pepper, I could have used a bit of salt, but there was no salt to be found. You know what else wasn 't found, a steak knife! I 've been places where you could use a fork, or butter knife to cut the steak, so I tried them. NOT EVEN CLOSE! After several minutes I asked for a steak knife, and he brought me one 5min or so later. By this time my steak is now luke warm, and the steak knife had difficulty cutting it. Oh, this was also about the time my wife got her drink (about 20min after ordering . We ate what we could, and as much as I LOVE Creme Bruele I wasn 't about to give them any more money, we paid our bill and walked to Bin 707 for dessert and more drinks (which were both served in about 5min . All in all, this is hands down the worse dining experience I 've had in Grand Junction. My wife and I thought we 'd try something different, a little nicer, and it was a disaster. This is NOT an upscale place, but they sure love to charge you like it!

My wife and I had an excellent meal here on 25 september 2022. I had the duck breast and my wife had the crabcake as a main course. we had her salat first and her cream brulee for the desert. the personal was friendly. they have a good wine card. we have died outside on their covered terrace on main street. very nice. also interiors looked good, grand junction is a fun city. take a river, fish, hiking, cycling along the cycle paths, riding and on. drive to glenwood springs, aspen and moab. do not miss the colorado national monument. it is like arches and zion parks with fewer crowds.