After doing nothing at work for almost 6 hours, I decided to leave and went to Happy Hour with Chia. We arrived at French 75 Bistro. Chia and I came here few months ago for our lady's night out. We both agree the food is over priced, but both love the cocktail lounge area here. It reminds me of those trendy bars at NYC or in Sex & the City shows. Nicely decorated with rich color, fancy cocktail, and beautiful people.
French 75 is a chain culinary adventures restruants in Southern California. It's the sister restaurant of Chat Noir Jazz Lounge (which we plan to visit before I leave OC...so stay tune). I found out last week that French 75 offers Bubbly Hour Monday to Friday with 50% off all their signatue champagne cocktails. So after a long court day for Chia and a long "boring" day for me, we decided to go and took advantage of the deal.
The place wasn't crowded when we arrived before 5pm. It started to fill with people after awhile. Luckily we came early and was able to find a nice table.
The bar is so dark, I guess a great place for dates?
We ordered their signatue champagne cocktails - Champagne with cognac & jucie. Chia got Chanel (with Strawberry liquor) - don't you love the name?
I got pomegranate flavor. We love the hot pink table setting, and the warm chips!
The champagne cocktails are alright, not as great as we expected. Chia thinks $11 a bottle of Asti champagne is better.
We ordered Cheese Plate.
Top row (right to left) : Plain Brie, blackberry, Goat Cheese Brie
Middle row: Pearl grape, apricot paste, blue cheese, and green apple to go with Brie.
Bottom Row: aged parmeasn cheese, berry paste, honey roasted walnut, and less aged parmeasn.
We both like Brie the most. I like Goat cheese, too. Parmeasn cheese a little too salty, but it balance will with the sweat walnut and berry
Don't you think the stacked apple display is a piece of art?
I was craving for the tiny french fries. So we orded French Sliders: 3 petit burgers made out of Brioche bum with goat cheese, and fries....It's so yummy. The burger meet is very flavorable, but not greasy.
We sat there for about two hours, had 3 glasses of cocktail, and enjoy the abiance.
Although the food might not worth its price, but it's great warm & lovely place to just hang out. I would recommend martini cocktail over their champagne cocktails.
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