Les Faux Bourgeois

I went to this neat little French cafe about 2 weeks ago with my family. You wouldn't know about it unless you drive or walk by the area often or you heard it about through word-of-mouth because it's located in the oddest of places for French cuisine--on the corner of E15th (Kingsway) and Fraser St. in East Vancouver. In my case, I fit into both the above circumstances.

Before I even went, I had already heard great things about the food and prices at this place. Well, it turns out that it was so great you would need to make reservations way in advance. My first time trying to make reservations here the morning of, they couldn't give me a table for 4 any time before 9 p.m. This place didn't disappoint with a very handsome waiter providing great service, good simple decor, great food, and reasonable prices. We ordered a goat cheese salad, scallops, and mussels with fries to share as appetizers. Though the goat cheese was a bit too strong for my liking (but that's what goat cheese tastes like) and there weren't too much of the scallops, the mussels were excellent and the salads were great.

We also ordered separate entrees, which were all solid choices from fish to duck confit but the best entree was actually my mom's portebello mushroom shown above with some cheese on top and salad on the side. It was done perfectly with lots of juice. I would've taken some pictures of the dessert but our camera ran out of battery...too bad, so sad.

*A little side anecdote: we were served bread before the appetizers and the butter came with the bread. Then, the waiter brought something similar to butter in its own little dish, so my dad started using that for the bread. Well, the waiter looked at him with bewildered eyes as he explained that the dipping he just used up was actually for the mussels that were now in his hands. I think the rest of us at the table were more embarassed than my dad.

FYI: This is a good place for people watching too. Lots of classy, hip and cool patrons.