Café de Paris sauce is a butter-based sauce served with grilled beef. When it is served with the sliced portion of an entrecôte (in American English: a rib eye steak) or a faux-filet (in English: a sirloin steak) the resulting dish is known as "entrecôte Café de Paris".

On average, a non-touristy restaurant in Paris will charge between 15 and 25 Euros per set menu, but you can expect to pay more at trendier restaurants or restaurants in tourist-heavy areas. Set menu prices also vary widely, with some costing as little as 10 Euros and others costing well over 100 Euros.

The Paris Café, one of downtown's oldest bars (always impossible to compete with Fraunces Tavern) — a fixture at the Seaport since 1873 — has closed for good. The pub weathered Sandy, when it was all but washed away, but could not overcome the coronavirus, which has wiped out business for the foreseeable future.

Among the drinks customarily served are the grand crème (large cup of white coffee), wine by the glass, beer (un demi, half a pint, or une pression, a glass of draught beer), un pastis (made with aniseed flavour spirit, usually named by a brand like Ricard, 51, Pernod), and un espresso, or un express (a small cup of ...