Café de Paris sauce

noun

A complex butter-based sauce served with grilled beef.

Similar
Café de Paris butter

Meanings

nounCafé de Paris sauce (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA complex butter-based sauce served with grilled beef.

    Synonyms: Café de Paris butter

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA complex butter-based sauce served with grilled beef.

Similar
Café de Paris butter

Origin

Named after the restaurant in Geneva that popularised it in the 1940s.

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APA

Café de Paris sauce. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Caf%C3%A9%20de%20Paris%20sauce

MLA

“Café de Paris sauce.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Caf%C3%A9%20de%20Paris%20sauce. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Café de Paris sauce,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Caf%C3%A9%20de%20Paris%20sauce.

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