Tips and glossary
Glossary
Bilig, rozell, blé noir and the rest.
Words you will meet at La Lanterne, in alphabetical order.
- Ambience
- How dressed-up the room is. Every piece of décor adds to it; it makes guests more patient and tips bigger. More.
- Atelier
- The market's tab for helps bought with sugar pearls. More.
- Bilig
- The round cast-iron griddle a crêpe is cooked on.
- Blé noir
- Buckwheat: the dark flour of galettes. More.
- Crêpe
- Made with wheat batter (froment). Usually sweet.
- Doneness
- How cooked a side is: pale, golden or crisp. More.
- Fève
- A tiny porcelain figure, traditionally hidden in a cake. The pedlar sells them for the shelf. More.
- Froment
- Wheat: the batter of sweet crêpes.
- Galette
- Made with buckwheat batter. Usually savoury. More.
- Galette Royale
- Armand's restaurant across the street. Gold lettering. Standards.
- Green thumb
- Mastery of one crop in the yard. More.
- Home-grown
- A filling picked in your own yard: free for the till, and guests tip more for it.
- House signature
- A recipe at the top mastery stamp, ordered by name alone. More.
- La Lanterne
- Your crêperie, on Rue des Hirondelles.
- Ma grande
- What Monsieur Anselme calls you. It is affectionate.
- Mastery stamp
- Bronze, Silver, Gold and Lantern: earned per recipe by serving it well. More.
- Notebook
- Tante Maëlle's recipe notebook, one page per recipe. More.
- Palette knife
- Scrapes a filling off an open crêpe.
- Pass
- The shelf at the end of the worktop where the plate goes out, with the bell.
- Placer
- A help that lays every piece of one filling in one tap. More.
- Renown
- What raises your shop rank. More.
- Riddle ticket
- An order that shows only the guest's quote.
- Rozell
- The wooden T-shaped spreader that spreads the batter thin.
- Shelf
- Where home-grown fillings wait, counted in portions. More.
- Slip
- A takeaway list of two or three crêpes for one bag.
- Special
- The filling on the day card's board: crêpes with it earn a little more.
- Street stars
- The neighbourhood's opinion of you, from 0 to 5. More.
- Sugar pearls
- The premium currency. More.
- Till slip
- The paper on the counter that says what a crêpe earned, with one thing to fix or one thing done well.
People on the street
- Tante Maëlle
- Who left you the shop and the notebook. Retired to Penmarc'h; sends postcards.
- Armand
- Owner of Galette Royale across the street. Comes in "only to inspect". His page.
- Monsieur Anselme
- The stallholder at the evening market. His page.
- Madame Poulain
- Collects the rent. Has a word with Monsieur Anselme on your behalf.
- Yann the pedlar
- Brings a handcart of small presents every week. More.
The guests who come to the counter each have a page of their own.