Food · Curated list
Champagne, Omelette, Cider and 22 more, ranked by how much of the world has written about each one.
Most written-about first. Each description summarises the dish or drink's Wikipedia article, which its name links to.
1
French sparkling wine
A sparkling wine that began, and is made, in France's Champagne wine region under the appellation's AOC rules, which require particular practices in the vineyard, grapes only from designated places within the region, particular ways of pressing them, and a second fermentation in the bottle to make the wine fizz.
Wikidata · Photo: Taken on September 22, 2005, CC BY 2.0
2
Egg dish
A dish of eggs fried in a pan with oil or butter, often filled with meat, cheese, onions, mushrooms, vegetables, chives, or a mix of these.
Wikidata · Photo: Renee Comet (photographer), Public domain
3
Fermented alcoholic beverage from apple juice
An alcoholic drink made from fermented apple juice. Most apple varieties can make cider, but cider apples are the ones most prized.
Wikidata · Photo: Mikel Arrazola, CC BY 3.0
.jpg?width=800)
4
Style of brandy produced in France
A kind of brandy named after the commune of Cognac, France, and made in the departments around it, Charente-Maritime and Charente, in an officially designated wine region.
Wikidata · Photo: Evan Swigart from Chicago, USA, CC BY 2.0
5
French stewed vegetable dish
A traditional French dish of vegetables from Provence, in the south of France, especially linked with Nice and the area around it. It grew out of rural Provençal cooking, as a sensible way of using up the summer's surplus by stewing the vegetables of the season together.
Wikidata · Photo: Marcus Guimarães, CC BY 2.0
.jpg?width=800)
6
Crescent-shaped viennoiserie pastry
A crescent-shaped Viennoiserie of laminated yeast dough, halfway between puff pastry and bread.
Wikidata · Photo: Herry Wibisono ( herryway ), CC0
7
Dish of fried bread and eggs
Slices of bread soaked in beaten egg, often with cream or milk, then fried in a pan. Other names and versions include poor knights (of Windsor), gypsy toast, Bombay toast and eggy bread.
Wikidata · Photo: Jonathunder, CC BY-SA 3.0
.jpg?width=800)
8
Confection of sugar and almond flour
A confection made mostly of almond meal and sugar, sometimes with almond extract or oil added. Some versions use other nuts, or peach or apricot kernels, in place of almonds.
Wikidata · Photo: James Petts from London, England, CC BY-SA 2.0
9
Batter- or dough-based food
A dish of batter or dough, usually leavened, cooked between two patterned plates that give it its typical size, shape and surface pattern. It varies a great deal with the recipe and the waffle iron used.
Wikidata · Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Jrenier assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain
10
11
Long French white bread
A long, thin bread, usually made of basic lean dough. French law defines both the dough of the traditional baguette and its dimensions.
Wikidata · Photo: jules / stonesoup, CC BY 2.0
12
Thin pancake in French cuisine
A dish of unleavened batter or dough cooked in a frying pan or on a griddle, usually either sweet or savoury.
Wikidata · Photo: David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0
13
14
French blue cheese
A blue cheese of sheep's milk from the south of France. Under EU law, the name "Roquefort" belongs only to cheese matured in the natural caves of Combalou, at Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, since it is a recognised geographical indication with a protected designation of origin.
Wikidata · Photo: Thesupermat, CC BY-SA 4.0
15
French culinary dish
A speciality food made from the liver of a goose or duck. French law defines it as the liver of a goose or duck fattened by force-feeding (gavage).
Wikidata · Photo: Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0
16
.jpg?width=800)
17
Forcemeat
A forcemeat. Its original form was baked inside pastry, pâté en croute; today it is usually made without pastry, in a dish called a terrine, which gives it the names pâté en terrine or just terrine.
Wikidata · Photo: H. Alexander Talbot, CC BY 2.0
18
Cocktail of vodka and tomato juice
A cocktail of tomato juice and vodka with spices and flavourings, such as black pepper, salt, celery salt, lime and lemon juice, Worcestershire and hot sauces, horseradish, celery, garlic, herbs, olives and pickled vegetables. Some versions, such as the "surf 'n' turf" Bloody Mary, are garnished with bacon and shrimp.
Wikidata · Photo: Evan Swigart from Chicago, USA, CC BY 2.0
.jpg?width=800)
19
Cream-filled pastry
A pastry of choux dough filled with cream and topped with flavoured icing. The dough, the same as for profiteroles, is usually piped into a long shape from a pastry bag and baked until crisp outside and hollow within.
Wikidata · Photo: Willis Lam, CC BY-SA 2.0
.jpg?width=800)
20
Custard dessert with hard caramel top
Also called burnt cream, Cambridge burnt cream or Trinity cream, and almost the same as crema catalana, a dessert of rich custard under a layer of hard caramelised sugar. It is usually served lightly chilled; caramelising the sugar warms the upper layer of custard, while its centre remains cool.
22
Sweet meringue-based confectionery
Also called a French macaroon, a sweet confection based on meringue, made with almond meal, egg white, icing sugar and granulated sugar, and often coloured.
Wikidata · Photo: Shisma ( talk ), CC0
23
24
Dish of cabbage leaves with a filling
Cooked cabbage leaves rolled around one of many fillings, common in the cooking of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, much of Western Asia, Northern China and parts of North Africa.
Wikidata · Photo: Burkhard Mücke, CC BY-SA 4.0
25
Russian sautéed beef dish with sauce
Also spelled beef Stroganov, a Russian dish of beef, cut into pieces and sautéed, served in a mustard and smetana sauce, and named after a member of the Stroganov family.
Wikidata · Photo: Pittaya Sroilong, CC BY 2.0
Every Wikidata item that is a dish, drink, dessert or cheese whose cuisine, on Wikidata, is French cuisine, or whose country of origin is France, and that has its own English Wikipedia article, ranked by the number of Wikimedia sites with a page about it — Wikipedia's language editions, mostly, and sister projects such as Wikiquote. That counts how many communities independently thought it worth describing, and nobody can buy a place on it. The top 25 are shown.
Wikidata files these under this list's query, but they are not what the list is about:
Fetched from Wikidata on 2026-09-25. Each description is this site's summary of the entry's Wikipedia article, which its name links to: the wording is ours, the facts are Wikipedia's, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. To correct an entry, correct it there; the next refresh carries the change.
Eating your way through France? Menus, maps and translation all want data. Computatus eSIM sells prepaid data eSIMs for France, installed by QR code before you leave, so maps, tickets and messages work without a roaming bill.
| Country | Cheapest plan | Price | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 2GB per day | $2.15 | Get it → |
Open the $2.15 plan for France →
A commission on plans bought through these links is what pays for this site. Nothing above depends on it: every entry is chosen and ranked before any price is looked up.
.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
