French Restaurants in Hanoi

Hanoi in Vietnam attracts lot of visitors to its unique tourist destinations. However, if you are expecting other things to do in Hanoi, we suggest you to satisfy your gastronomical interests. Let your appetite have a gala time satiating itself in varieties of restaurants dotting the alleys of Hanoi. Hanoi is otherwise known for its traditional Vietnamese cuisine but you will find most of the tourists flocking to the French Restaurants in Hanoi. There are a number of French restaurants in this city specialized in serving French cuisine. Interestingly enough, you will get variety of dining options inside the restaurants ranging from traditional service, jazz clubs to sidewalk cafes.

French Cuisine

French cuisine offers you an exotic blend of classical culinary style and regional specialties. Interestingly enough, French cooking styles have been imbibed into all the major Western cuisines. What makes French cuisine so tempting is perhaps the varieties of French wine and French cheeses.

While northwest French cuisine shows prominence of butter, cream, and apples, that from southwest France has duck fat, foie gras, porcini mushrooms, and gizzards. Southeast French cuisine again has maximum use of olive oil, herbs, and tomatoes due to influences from Spanish cuisine, Catalan cuisine and Italian cuisine and northern French cuisine offers more potatoes, pork, endives and beer. You will also come across many regional cuisines like Loire Valley cuisine, Basque cuisine and the cuisine of Roussillon, which have resurged into prominence recently in 21st century.

Features of French Restaurants in Hanoi

You will find vehement use of vegetables like potatoes, green beans, carrots, turnips, courgette (also known as zucchini), mushrooms, oyster mushrooms and truffles in French dishes.
Even fruits like oranges, tomatoes, tangerines, peaches, apricots, pears, cherry, strawberry, blackberry and grapes are frequently used
Meat of chicken, turkey, duck, goose, a holiday dish, beef, veal, pork, mutton and lamb are used.
Common Seafood are cod, sardines, canned tuna, canned salmon, trout, mussels, herring, oysters, a holiday dish and shrimp
Among French drinks, beer and pastis are popular.

Famous Dishes in French Restaurants

- Blanquette de veau
- Boeuf à la mode
- Canard au sang
- Coq au Vin
- French Cheese
- Navarin
- Oysters
- Pot-au-feu
- Steak au poivre
- Soufflé