$10 for $20 Worth of French Fare and Drinks at Crêpes and Grapes Café

Crêpes have long struggled to achieve equal footing with the buttermilk pancake, lobbying day and night for fair wages and membership to the Screen Actors Guild. Today’s Groupon helps raise the batter ceiling. For $10, you get $20 worth of French-inspired foodstuffs from Crêpes and Grapes Café in Uptown Whittier. CityVoters’ 2009 best French restaurant in Los Angeles features an eclectic menu of American-influenced French cuisine, including a hefty dose of crêpes, the world’s most versatile flat food.

Once inside, Crêpes and Grapes’ brightly painted walls and smells of browning batter quickly provoke quiescent appetites. Sit at one of the cozily huddled tables and review the titular crêpe selection, which includes both savory and dessert pairings, not to mention the rarely seen breakfast crêpe. Early birds can wake up with the champignon crêpe ($7.25), stuffed to its crispy gills with eggs, sautéed mushrooms, herbs, goat cheese, and white sauce, or take a buttery bite of the sweet Frenchie Croissant French toast ($8.25) with raspberry melba and yogurt filling, served with eggs and fresh fruit.

Once both hands on the clock point vertically and it’s lights out, there are plenty of entrees available. The jardin and hummus ($8.85–$9.85) is a vegetarian option, featuring grilled spinach, leeks, garlic, red onions, asparagus, and eggplant in a red pepper pesto sauce, served with hummus. An unvegetarian choice is the noir rib-eye steak ($16.85–$17.85), grilled, blackened, and seasoned with sides of sautéed asparagus and scalloped potatoes. Also available are numerous hand-carved panini statues and hand-woven pasta baskets. Finish off your meal with a Nutella and banana crêpe ($6.45), a classic combo of hazelnut chocolate, banana slices, and whipped cream. Crêpes and Grapes also offers an extensive list of beverages, including specialty coffees, fruit smoothies ($4.20), and a bevy of hot or iced teas.

The exterior of Crêpes and Grapes looks like Nighthawks, while the interior resembles a European crêpe-house. French Art Nouveau posters dot the walls, and at night, strings of twinkling garden lights evoke a dinner date with Toulouse-Lautrec. The café’s low-key atmosphere is flexible enough to suit couples and families alike, while the French cuisine can lead either to discussions of Romance language and literature, or use of crêpes as warm, rejuvenating facemasks.

not valid for Sunday brunch.

• Crepes and Grapes Cafe
• www.crepesandgrapescafe.com
  • 6560 Greenleaf Avenue
  • Whittier, California 90601
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The Fine Print

• Expires 05/25/2010
• May purchase multiple. Limit 1 per table, 2 per table of 4 or more. Reservation required. Not valid for Sunday Brunch.
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$10 for $20 Worth of French Fare and Drinks at Crêpes and Grapes Café