Ingles

meal times in france

- Le petit dejeuner, or breakfast: served on rising
In France, generally breakfast croissants, brioches and fresh baguettes. Usually accompany these buns with café au lait('coffee').

- Le dejeuner or lunch: lunch (at 12h00 - 13h00)

- Le gouter or snack: 16:00 dished: gâteaux (cakes), tea, coffee ...

- Le Diner or dinner: food of the evening (served between 19het 21h)

Breakfast
Le petit déjeuner (breakfast) is often a quick meal consisting of tartines (slices) of French bread with jelly or jam, croissants, pain aux raisins or pain au chocolat (also namedchocolatine in the south of France) along with coffee or tea. Children often drink hot chocolate in bowls along with their breakfasts. Breakfast of some kind is always served in cafés opening earlyin the day.
Lunch
Le déjeuner (lunch) is a two-hour mid-day meal, but it has recently seen a trend towards the one hour lunch break. In some smaller towns and in the south of France, the two-hourlunch may still be customary. Sunday lunches are often longer and are taken with the family.Restaurants normally open for lunch at noon and close at 2:30 pm. Some restaurants close on Monday duringlunch.
In large cities, a majority of working people and students eat their lunch at a corporate or school cafeteria, which normally serve complete meals as described above; it is therefore not usual forstudents to bring their own lunch food. It is common for white-collar workers to be given lunch vouchers as part of their employee benefits. These can be used in most restaurants, supermarkets andtraiteurs; however, workers having lunch in this way typically do not eat all three dishes of a traditional lunch due to price and time considerations. In smaller cities and towns, some working peopleleave their workplaces to return home for lunch, generating four rush hours during the day. Finally, an alternative also popular, especially among blue-collar workers, is to lunch on a sandwich,...