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Our dish — the plate we'd order here firstCroque-Monsieur
Ham and cheese between slices of buttered sandwich bread, toasted
Where it comes fromParis' own
Larousse traces the croque-monsieur to a café on the boulevard des Capucines in 1910, and Proust set one in his novel a few years later.
Sources: The Big Apple (2008); Guichet du Savoir, Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon (2009); Paris je t'aime – Office de Tourisme (2026); Paris ZigZag (2020).
At Au Petit Riche
Made with the house's named ham and a Comté aged two years, set among the brasserie's main courses.
From Au Petit Riche's own menu and pages, as we read them in November 2026.
Au Petit Riche
French · brasserie · bourgeois cooking · Grands Boulevards (9e), Paris
25 rue Le Peletier, 75009 Paris
The Grands Boulevards' 1854 brasserie, for its croque-monsieur, a ham-and-cheese sandwich made with Prince de Paris ham.
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