Presently · 8 – 11 h
Matinée.
Good morning.
Coffee pulled dark, crêpes folded warm. The patio faces the mountains. Dogs are welcome, as always.
Sierra Madre · Californie Sunday, April 19, 2026
Monsieur Crêpe
Open all day · Breakfast · Lunch · Happy Hour · Dinner
Ouvert tous les jours ✦ Champagne & French beers ✦ Crêpes sucrées & salées ✦ Village de la Sierra Madre · depuis 2013 ✦ Escargots · les vrais ✦ 400-year-old Breton recipe ✦ Live music · de temps en temps ✦ Bouillabaisse · vendredi & samedi ✦ Dogs welcome on the patio ✦ Dinner · jeudi au samedi ✦ Ouvert tous les jours ✦ Champagne & French beers ✦ Crêpes sucrées & salées ✦ Village de la Sierra Madre · depuis 2013 ✦ Escargots · les vrais ✦ 400-year-old Breton recipe ✦ Live music · de temps en temps ✦ Bouillabaisse · vendredi & samedi ✦ Dogs welcome on the patio ✦ Dinner · jeudi au samedi ✦
Presently · 11 – 15 h
Déjeuner.
Lunch is on.
Savory galettes, croque monsieurs, salades composées. The regulars have their tables. There is usually room for you too.
Presently · 15 – 18 h
Happy Hour.
The afternoon pivot.
Friday & Saturday, three to six. Kir Breton, pastis, a plate of fromages. The boulevard slows. You should too.
Presently · 18 – 21 h
Dîner.
Dinner, properly.
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings. French onion soup. Bouillabaisse on Friday. A short wine list, a billig that hasn't cooled.
A brief introduction
Meet Collette.
She answers the phone at three in the morning. She knows the hours, the menu, the gluten-free crêpe, whether we have tables at seven, and whether the quiche is still warm.
"Call anytime. I answer."
☎ (626) 355-1508 24 heures sur 24
Un lieu, trois restaurants
Three in one.
01 La Crêperie
Four centuries of Brittany. Served all day.
Tony's buckwheat galettes follow a recipe from the Grand Master Crêpe School of Brittany — four centuries old, naturally gluten-free. The batter is made fresh each morning. Sweet crêpes folded to order.
See the Breakfast & Lunch menu →Événements · Specials · Holidays
What's on the calendar.
Weekend Bistro Every Fri & Sat Weekend Bistro
Champagne, escargots, and a corner musician.
Happy Hour 3–6 pm. Dinner until 9. Live music when the mood is right — a guitar, a chanson, a candle burning down.
Reserve a table →
Weekend Every Sunday Weekend
Sunday Brunch, the French way.
Crêpes Suzette, quiche du jour, and a pichet of mimosa. 8 to 2, until the bread runs out.
See the brunch menu →
Holiday May 10 Holiday
Fête des Mères.
A prix-fixe brunch for the woman who taught you to butter your own bread. Flowers from the shop next door. Reservations recommended.
Reserve →
Celebration July 14 Celebration
Le Quatorze Juillet.
Bastille Day on the boulevard. Bleu, blanc, rouge — a glass of something sparkling on the house, and French music from open to close.
More images →
Neighbours On stage now Neighbours
Live theatre, steps from the café.
The Sierra Madre Playhouse — one of the oldest community theatres in California — is a short walk down the boulevard. One Million Words – Rilke runs April 24 through May 3. Jazz, comedy, and dance follow all spring.
See the Playhouse calendar →
Community Sierra Madre Community
What's on in the village.
Markets, live music, and festivals on the boulevard and in the park. Ecos de España — Spanish classical and flamenco dance — plays at the Playhouse on May 2. The Sierra Madre Chamber keeps the full calendar.
Community events calendar →Follow @monsieurcrepela — events, specials, and what Collette posted this morning.
A note from the corner booth
Aurélien — Tony to the regulars — grew up in Paris, where a café was not a destination but a fact of daily life: coffee at seven, a crêpe at noon, a glass of something at five. In 2013 he found Sierra Madre and stopped looking. "It reminds me of the south of France," he says. "The atmosphere is cozy. It feels like home."
He opened Monsieur Crêpe that October, in a small room on the boulevard, with a billig imported from Brittany and a buckwheat galette recipe four centuries old. Nearly everything is made from scratch: the caramel, the whipped cream, the quiches, the vinaigrettes, the bread pudding. The crêpes are folded the Breton way.
Every February the café keeps La Chandeleur — the winter feast day when, since the fifth century, the French eat crêpes for luck. A gold coin in the left hand, a pan in the right, and a good flip means a good year. It is the oldest reason to make the thinnest food.
The Los Angeles Times called it "a crêpe above." The PCC Courier called the hype "in-Crêpe-ible." The locals just call it theirs.
— Tony Mosconi, Sierra Madre, depuis 2013
From the kitchen · Depuis 2015
Chef Guilbert Balmaceda.
Guilbert joined the café in 2015, cooking beside Tony on the boulevard. He stayed. In December 2022 — one month before the tenth anniversary — Xavier Sosa and Karla Zelaya bought the room, remodeled the kitchen, and kept Guilbert at the pan. That's three owners' worth of trust, one billig, and a menu that grows a little each year.
"Food is not a museum. It's an alive thing."
— Chef Guilbert
He cooks French with Italian in the margins — the ratatouille gets polenta smoothed with Greek yogurt; the beef bourguignon swaps bacon for pancetta so the smoke doesn't drown the wine. Once a week he drives to a San Pedro fishmonger he's worked with for a decade. Whatever is best in the crate becomes Friday's bouillabaisse: Venus clams, manila clams, mussels, crab claws. Saffron where it counts. Pernod in the escargot.
"Never cook with wine you wouldn't drink."
He knows the regulars by name and visits every table. It is a 750-square-foot room with not quite enough cold storage, and sometimes the quiche runs out — which is how fresh food works, and how it has always worked.
Catering & events
We bring the billig.
Drop-off platters for the office. A crêpier at your wedding. A pop-up for fifty in someone's garden.
Careers
We hire small, French-leaning kitchens and floor teams year-round. A note beats a form, every time.
Les heures
When we're open
- Lundi — Jeudi 9 am – 2 pm
- Vendredi 9 am – 8 pm
- Samedi 8 am – 8 pm
- Dimanche 8 am – 2 pm
Dinner service Friday & Saturday only. Happy hour Friday & Saturday, 3 – 6 pm. Call us to confirm.
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