Le Bec-Fin's Menu for Dummies

Le Bec-Fin’s Menu for Dummies

Posted by Jason Sheehan on June 15th, 2012

There are those among you (and you know who you are) who have been complaining lately that the new Le Bec-Fin menu is too complicated with Franglish descriptions and multi-lingual shenanigans. It is for those semantic purists and advocates of the common tongue that we now present a simplified, all-English version of Le Bec’s opening week board, absent all fanciness and Continental ornamentation.

Also: Time out over.

Le Bec-Fin for Simpletons

Fancy Chicken Soup and Fatty Snail Parts with Weeds

~or~

Baked potato with sour cream

Round Tube Noodles, Baby Cow Thymus, Old Grapes and Grass Juice

~or~

Egg Salad, Mashed Potatoes, Corn and Mushroom Jell-O

Fried Liver and Onions on Toast

~or~

Grilled Artichoke Salad with Fancy Mustard

Fish with Pancakes and Fish Eggs and Butter

~or~

Oily Oatmeal that Tastes Like Licorice

Old Steak, Peas and Mushrooms in a sauce of Red Wine and Bone Stuffing

~or~

Mushroom, Beet and Lemon Pie

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Michael G

I want my sustainable free range organic road kill in French because i’m sure it will sound much better.
Geoff

I barely ever comment on this site, but I laughed at this. Well played, foobooz.
http://midtownlunch.com/philadelphia Jamie

touche foobooz!
Tex

Outstanding work. But what kind of weeds are they?
http://philadelphia.foobooz.com/author/jsheehan Jason Sheehan

@Tex:

Green ones
T-Mac

I really did lol, lol,
Steve

Satire or not….can we PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go one day without a Le Bec-Fin, Alla Spina, Stephen Starr, Shake Shack and/or Hop Sing Laundromat story??? PLEASE?? There are so many great restaurants, bars, deals in this city yet Foobooz talks about the SAME places ad nauseum. Sorry, but your “Time out” doesn’t excuse the fact that your readers are seriously pissed off that there are on average maybe 6 updates a day on this page and most of the time it is for the same dozen or so restaurants
Lorrie

@Steve I hear ya screamin’ (perhaps not quit the post you should have left the comment on) but this was a well played, much needed post. Thank you Foobooz!!
Django Fett

Awesome post.

Regarding the complaints about Foobooz posting about the same restaurants over and over – if I’m not mistaken, there are only so many restaurants that open in this city in a give week/month, and those are the one’s that people want to read about – hence – multiple posts during the lead-up to opening. Methinks that in two months, you will stop hearing about Alla Spina, Le Bec, Shake Shack, etc., except when they go through a menu refresh, or are hosting some pop-up, etc.

This too shall pass. Find something in your life to focus this passion on, and be grateful this blog exists (for free).
Chuck

I am holding out for this book to come out on Audible or maybe the phone app that allows me to point my camera at the menu item, take a picture and it’s translated into the “Common Person’s” english!
Some girl

This is embarrassingly helpful.
Agreed

Steven, I agree, same restaurants over and over again on here. Then perception becomes reality. National news, unable to research on their own, picks up the ads and runs with them as true.
George

That’s some funny sh**! Great job, LMAO
Haddon Henry

*Golf Clap* Well Done.

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