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Crêpe Café is an original, healthy fast casual «crêperie» franchise Today The Crêpe Café is
represented throughout Australia and New Zealand, the Middle East
and North Africa, and in the United States.
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A delectable feast for the
senses
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Step inside The Crêpe Café and bathe in the rich aroma of delicate
mixes, robust savouries and a luxurious coffee bean blend. It’s the
perfect environment to catch-up with friends, meet colleagues and
business associates, and recharge with a healthy snack or meal.
With a flavoursome
menu of sweet and savoury crêpes, waffles, pancakes and omelettes
cooked fat-free on a hot round griddle, crêpes are served all day as
breakfast, snack, main course or dessert and are consumed in the
cafés or as take away. The main attraction of The Crêpe Café is that
crêpes, waffles, pancakes and omelettes can be cooked quickly in
front of customers to create a theatrical effect in a pristine clean
environment
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Crêpes, Pancakes, Waffles
and Omelettes
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Crêpe (k-ray-p): made from a batter of flour, eggs
and water and cooked fat-free on a hot griddle until thin and crispy
and filled with either sweet or savoury ingredients. |
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Pancake (pan-kay-k): a round cake made from a flour
batter and cooked on a hot griddle or frying pan, usually served
with cream or ice-cream, syrup or fruit. |
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Waffle (wof-el): a crispy, grid-lined cake made from
flour batter and cooked between two hot plates called a waffle iron.
Usually served with cream or ice-cream, syrup or fruit. |
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Omelette (om-el-et): A savoury meal or snack made
from a batter of beaten egg that is cooked and filled with a
combination of meat, ham, cheese or vegetables.
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Not exactly sure
what a crêpe is? Or the difference between a crêpe and a
pancake? What about the origins of the waffle?
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Crêpes originated from Brittany
in west of France in the Middle Ages as a replacement for
bread when wheat was in short supply.. The delicate, round
cakes of eggs, flour, milk and butter are traditionally
cooked on a hot griddle and spread thin using a smooth
wooden rake. They are then filled with sweet or savoury
ingredients and served as a meal or snack at any time of the
day.
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Unlike crêpes,
pancakes contain a raising agent that is combined with a batter of
eggs, flour and milk to create a light and fluffy cake best served
with sweet syrups, fruit or cream and ice-cream. Traditionally about
1cm thick, pancakes can vary from country to country but are best
known as a breakfast or sweet treat in the US, Canada, Australia and
New Zealand.
The crispy exterior
yet soft fluffy centre of a freshly cooked waffle originates from
the Middle Ages when waffle irons of two metal plates featured
designs of landscapes and coat-of-arms. Like pancakes, waffles are
best known as a breakfast or sweet treat and traditionally served
with sweet syrups, fruit or cream and ice-cream.
Omelettes could be
described as a scrambled egg cake, cooked in a frying pan or on a
griddle and folded to enclose tasty savoury fillings like cheese,
vegetables and meats. Omelettes are served at breakfast, lunch or
dinner and can be made as a light snack, or filled with a range of
ingredients to make a hearty meal.
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