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Food At Hollywood West

Croque Monsieur [toasted cheese and ham sandwich, photo above] or steak haché with frites [Real beefburger with chips/ fries] is typical fast but tasty food in France, along with crêpes [pancakes with sweet or savoury fillings], pizzas and baguettes or panini [toasted sandwiches] with various fillings. These can be found on streets everywhere, and make popular meals for €uro poor or time poor travellers.
Vegetarian travellers can often have problems with fixed menus [menu fixe] as the French do love to consume dead animals but restaurants usually have some alternative or, if not, supermarkets are loaded with all sorts of wonderful seasonal produce to suit veggies as well as carnivores.

The quality and variety of France's regional ingredients is outstanding and simple seafood dishes are particularly exquisite, not only on the coast, but inland too.
Ethnic cuisines are also excellent, interesting and widely available, but the real pleasure of French food for hard-up tourists is the simple mid-trip picnic bought from a local market or shop - freshly baked baguettes with cheese, salami or paté, olives, salad and wine

We all have our favorite foods, and for me, it’s rustic French cuisine. Something about the refined simplicity, and the focus on all-natural ingredients, speaks to my foodie soul.

More importantly, the French have a very important lesson for Americans concerned about obesity, hardened arteries and the like. I speak, of course, of the French paradox – the fact that the French gobble up saturated fats like Hungry Hungry Hippos, yet rarely suffer heart disease.

Much of this is attributed to the powers of red wine – a wonderful cure, I must say – but it also has a great deal to do with the fats the French are consuming. Their cheese actually needs to be refrigerated, for example, unlike our stuff.

If looks were everything, Bistro Le Crillon would have it all.

This years-old spot, despite being situated beside a drug store, has managed to give itself a charming, authentic ambiance that seems worlds-away from its shopping center location.

Also, the service has a certain refinement that goes beyond politeness; owing to the thin crowds, tables are not set until you arrive, and the brief process of the owner/waiter bringing out plates topped with silverware and cloth napkins imbues your lunch with a bit of elegance.