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This is hella subjective.
There are extremely few French restaurants in our quite multicultural city (Melbourne), and almost no one citing it as their favourite cuisine (to eat out at restaurants, because it's usually expensive as fuck and a waste of money for most people)
They have absolutely cornered the bakery market though haha
To be fair, the French mostly only come here on working holidays.
There's a huge difference with french cuisine available abroad and French cuisine at home (in the country itself). I found that abroad, it's always a luxury thing, seems just naming your restaurant something French justifies adding 50% to the bill regardless of the food actually being made there.
French cuisine is great not because of the top tier of it, but because of the extremely high standard even at the lowest rungs of the ladder (in the country itself). You can eat at a truck stop and get a three course meal for 10 bucks and it'll be delightful (talking about the few actual truck stop restaurants left, not the corporate highway shit which does exist too). It's also about home cooking and the way normal families cook. Also it's about the culture around food, sitting together for long meals and sharing a good time.
I'm sure it's lovely, just softly disagreed with calling it the pinacle of food, when it's just personal opinion
And also because I wanted to get in a few jabs at french "fine dining" hehehe. Though, my dislike of overly expensive food is also just my opinion
Perhaps I'll get a chance to experience down to earth French cooking overseas, but not here
I appreciate the response though, it was a good read :)
As I grew up in France, I assumed that our reputation for good food abroad was probably just good marketing by our food industry, but grossly exaggerated.
After having traveled a bit though, I now realize that not a lot of cultures takes food and cooking as seriously as we do. There is really a cultural thing here.
I mean, I'm sure it's nice in general. But because of economics it's not desirable here (for dining out)
I think that's at least partly explainable by how French cooking was so thoroughly adopted by European haute-cuisine in general - there are fewer specifically French restaurants because huge amounts of French cuisine became known as just general fancy cooking instead. I will say that when I have visited France, I have eaten exceedingly well without having to spend a lot of money
But yes, it is subjective. I do think it's reasonable to say that France has a good reputation for food, though
Oh for sure, they have a very good reputation