New on the Block: Creperie Paris Cafe

Creperie Paris Cafe opened its doors to the dining public last February and it is owned and operated by Jamaica Obeso and Raphaël Mollard. Raph came up with the menu and he is also the head chef for the creperie while Jamaica takes care of the customers. Theirs was a partnership made in the most romantic place in the world, Paris.

Raph and Jam met in Telecom Ecole de Management-Sud Paris in 2009 when she was doing her exchange studies there. A little funny trivia, Raph actually got her a crepe on their first date and it was also Raph's first time to see the Eiffel tower at night .

After Jam finished her studies in Ateneo she went to take her Masters in Management of New Communication Technologies in Universite Paris Dauphine and Français des Affaires (Business French) in La Sorbonne University, both in Paris. Raph worked as an IT consultant after he finished his Masters in Management Engineering.

They decided last year to try living in the Philippines since there seemed to be a lot of interesting opportunities here.

They both wanted to open something like a restaurant or bar here in the Philippines, at first in Manila with a couple of friends. They were brainstorming for ideas when one friend suggested creperie, they thought it was brilliant since its very French, not very difficult to make, already a familiar product to filipinos but still very niche especially authentic FRENCH crepes, and with more Filipinos learning about european culture they thought it should be worth a try.

Since they both lived in paris for 3-4 years, they know the city quite well and knowing how people are fascinated with Paris and the Eiffel Tower, they wanted to put Paris in their name, and of course 'creperie' since its a restaurant specializing in crepes and that is how "Creperie Paris Cafè" came to be

Photo from Creperie Paris Facebook Page
(From Left to Right: BeoR & Galadriel, Jam & Raph, Kristin Roa & Joven Morales)

They serve galettes, crepes and cheese platters. What differentiates a crepe from a galette, a crepe is a thin pancake and is sweet while a galette is savory, heavier and is made from buckwheat flour.

Creperie Paris' La Classique Galette.
-buckwheat crepe with ham, emmental, mozarella, and egg, sprinkled with parsley leaves.

Must try galettes: La Classique (ham, emmenthal, mozarella and egg) as well as La Raclette (raclette , potatoes, onions, mozarella, lardons) . lardons are thin strips of smoked ham.

La Pomme Française

Must try flavors for the crepes: La Pomme Française (caramelized apples with salted caramel) as well as La Cebuana (mango with dark chocolate ).

According to Jam and Raph the best combination for the ham and cheese platter is Parma ham, raclette and emmenthal.

All their cheese and ham platter pair best with their Chateau Pont de Pierre 2009 red wine

Wine and food pairing
Galettes with red meat is best with red wine. Galettes with seafood are best with white wine. Crepes are best with coffee. they have all the basic coffee options: warm, iced like cappuccino, latte, americano, dark chocolate mocha and white chocolate mocha

Promos
They have combo galette+crepe for P285. For the galette, choose between La Classique (the classic crepe), L'alsacienne (Sausage, Emmental, Mozarella and Onions), and La Poulet Crème (Chicken with Onions in White cream) with either of the crepes: La Pomme Française (Caramelized apple with cinnamon and homemade
salted caramel), La Banane à Split (La Banane à Split
Banana with homemade hazelnut or Chocolate with
whipped cream or Nutella), or La Cebuana (Ripe Mango with Dark Chocolate or Nutella).

Afternoon sets (2-4pm) : 1 crepe with 1 coffee/tea and get P15 off and Lunch sets (11a.m. to 1p.m.) 1 galette and 1 crepe get P15 off

They have appetizers like Croque Monsieur, Tartine Jambon fromage, and rolled galettes.

Price range for the galettes is from P135 to P235. Crepes are from P95 to P145.

Creperie Paris Cafe is open from 10:30am to 10:30pm everday for now. This is tentative, it may change after a few weeks depending on the traffic.

Try their galettes and crepes at Unit 1 Sonrisa Suites, Juana Osmeña Street, Cebu City


Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lacreperiedeparis

- Photos from Creperie Paris Facebook page -