Cuisine:

• French
• Bistro
• Fast Food and Hamburgers

French 75 Description:
A 1940s Parisian-style bistro and champagne bar featuring traditional and contemporary French cuisine. Jazz piano most evenings.
Former owner David Wilhelm sold his French 75 restaurant. The new owners briefly changed the name to 75 Laguna Beach, but have now brought back the original French 75 moniker. Known as one of the most romantic restaurants in Orange County, French 75 is located along Pacific Coast Highway in the heart of south Laguna. The restaurant has a fin de siècle setting with artwork and Art Deco lighting in intimate dining rooms and on a delightful covered patio with a fireplace. Start the night with a Champagne cocktail in the bar emboldened by a colorful, impish mural depicting monkeys drinking Champagne. The menu is filled with decent interpretations of bistro food like short ribs à la Bourguignon, roast chicken and grilled pork tenderloin. Seafood lovers should start with the pricey plateaux de fruits de mer, a luxuriously stacked silver bowl filled with Pacific oysters, Gulf shrimp, king crab legs and ahi avocado tartare. The "steak frites" menu offers a choice between six cuts of beef and five different sauces, from peppercorn to Roquefort butter to the classic béarnaise. Don't miss the restaurant's trademark chocolate soufflé, which fairly oozes rivulets of Callebaut chocolate.