SeEat restaurant guide
Chez Janou menu: decode the dish before choosing
Panisse is made from chickpeas; tagliatelles aux escargots is pasta with snails. The French names tell you more about the choice once you know what each means.
The linked saved menu is available in English, with original French dish names. It covers starters and mains; current dishes and accompaniments can differ.
Three names, three different directions
Choose by ingredients and preparation, rather than assuming every unfamiliar name is a similar dish.
Chickpea-based starter
Panisse fries
These are chickpea-flour fries, not potato fries. The menu names two sauces without specifying them; check those before treating the entire dish as suitable for your diet.
Pasta with a Pasta with snails
Tagliatelle with snails
Escargots means snails. Choose this pasta direction only if that ingredient appeals to you; it is not simply a vegetable pasta.
Fish with an olive condiment
Sea bass with tapenade
Bar is sea bass here. Tapenade supplies the olive direction; compare this with the smoked-haddock brandade if you prefer a fillet to a puréed fish preparation.
Read the ingredients hiding behind familiar words
A vegetable name or a salad heading does not tell the whole story.
01
Ratatouille includes separate condiments
The cold ratatouille starter names both tapenade and anchoïade. Anchoïade is anchovy-based, so do not assume the full starter is fish-free.
02
Check the version of the grain dish
The saved petit-épeautre risotto lists vegetables; the restaurant PDF reviewed for this guide lists scallops. Ask which preparation is being served rather than relying on the saved version.
03
Treat desserts as a separate decision
The reviewed restaurant menu lists chocolate mousse and other desserts, but they are absent from the linked 22-item selection. This guide does not add them to the saved menu or promise availability.
Chez Janou menu questions
Are panisse fries potato fries?
No: panisse is a chickpea-flour preparation. Confirm the two sauces and full preparation with staff if necessary.
Does the saved menu include chocolate mousse?
No. Chocolate mousse appears on the restaurant menu reviewed for this guide, but not in the linked starter-and-main selection.
Is the saved menu the current complete menu?
No. The Janou salad lists smoked ham in the saved version versus cured ham on the reviewed menu, and the grain risotto and swordfish accompaniments also differ. Check the menu being served.
Choose your Chez Janou dishes with clearer names
Open the saved starter-and-main menu, or visit SeEat to find the app for another unfamiliar menu.