{"id":1935,"date":"2009-09-29T17:55:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T21:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brookegeery.com\/lunchonhawthorne\/?p=65"},"modified":"2009-09-29T17:55:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T21:55:33","slug":"chez-machin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/?p=1935","title":{"rendered":"Chez Machin"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<h1>Archives<\/h1>\t\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66\" title=\"chez\" src=\"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/chez.jpg\" alt=\"chez\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/chez.jpg 450w, https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/chez-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span><span>3553 SE Hawthorne Blvd<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/24\/280729\/restaurant\/Hawthorne\/Chez-Machin-Portland\"><img style=\"border: medium none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/280729\/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Chez Machin on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chezmachincreperie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.chezmachincreperie.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Date of visit: September 29, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Price for two (with tip) $26<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been to France, but I did take two years of French in High School, so I feel I am fairly qualified to comment on the authenticity of Chez Machin. Based on what I assume and have seen on the episodes of 90210 where Donna and Brenda went to France, it definitely felt like an authentic French cafe. A little bit cramped, red-checked table clothes, provocative art on the walls, whole nine. Oh yeah, and the menu is in French (although not the food descriptions themselves, which is good because I have forgotten most of those two years of French.)<\/p>\n<p>The menu at Chez Machin Creperie obviously includes crepes, as well as soups, salads, sandwiches and a bistro menu of more hearty items. I felt compelled to order a crepe myself and went with the<span lang=\"RU\"><em><strong> La Saucisse<\/strong><\/em> consisting of <\/span><span lang=\"RU\">sun-dried tomato-basil pork sausage, mozzerella, scallions, spinach, roasted red pepper and \u00a0garlic coulis. I should note it was the most expensive savory crepe on the menu at 10.95, but the nice thing about doing this blog is I can totally justify the cost (or at least write it off my taxes.) The crepe tasted like a really delicious bolognese sauce in a perfectly crispy crepe, but honestly, for $11, seemed a little small. Of course, I was completely full after eating it, but compared to the plate across the table from me I felt like I&#8217;d been a bit gypped.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"RU\">That said, Jared got the <\/span><strong>Croque Vegetarien, <\/strong>a grilled avocado and swiss sandwich that came with a side salad. He also got a cup of the french onion soup, oozing with crunchy bread and melted swiss. The soup is actually vegetarian, and even though it didn&#8217;t include real food, tasted pretty good. Chez Machin was definitely one of those places I&#8217;d been wanting to try for awhile now, and there&#8217;s a good chance I&#8217;ll go back, maybe even sit on the patio next time.<\/p>\n<p>Veggie Options: Yes, and vegan, gluten free crepes if you are into that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>Speed: Not fast. You know what they say about the French (wait, are they stereotypically slow?)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67\" title=\"chez machin\" src=\"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/chez1.jpg\" alt=\"crepes saucese\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">crepes La Saucisse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_68\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68\" title=\"chez machin\" src=\"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/chez2.jpg\" alt=\"french onion soup\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">french onion soup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69\" title=\"chez machin\" src=\"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/chez3.jpg\" alt=\"Croque Vegetarien\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Croque Vegetarien<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives 3553 SE Hawthorne Blvd http:\/\/www.chezmachincreperie.com\/ Date of visit: September 29, 2009 Price for two (with tip) $26 I&#8217;ve never been to France, but I did take two years of French in High School, so I feel I am fairly qualified to comment on the authenticity of Chez Machin. Based on what I assume and have seen on the episodes of 90210 where Donna and Brenda went to France, it definitely felt like an authentic French cafe. A little bit cramped, red-checked table clothes, provocative art on the walls, whole nine. Oh yeah, and the menu is in French (although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[807],"tags":[853,860,875,885,932],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}