Café de Paris Butter — a rich, herby blend that melts over steak to turn into pure magic! It's so simple, yet so incredibly good!

Café de Paris Butter — a rich, herby blend that melts over steak to turn into pure magic! It's so simple, yet so incredibly good!

Café de Paris butter is a flavoured butter for steak that’s infused with an tantalising mix of herbs, spices and savoury condiments. Top sizzling-hot steaks with slices of this classic French compound butter and watch as it melts into an incredible butter sauce that oozes over the meat!

Café de Paris butter – sauce for steak

Despite its name, Café de Paris butter was actually born in Switzerland, at Restaurant Café de Paris in Geneva back in 1941. It is traditionally an emulsified butter sauce that’s poured over steak, and the original secret recipe is still served today at restaurants such the L’Entrecote group’s steakhouses in France, Switzerland and elsewhere.

These days you’ll find versions of Café de Paris sauce more often served instead as convenient, flavoured butter rounds, like this recipe. Either way the fundamentals are a good balance of aromatic herbs, careful spicing and a savoury boost from a secret ingredient: anchovies!

A pat of this butter on a steak with a side of thinly cut fries, and you’ve instantly got a classic steak frites worthy of a swanky French bistro. Its use doesn’t end there either. The flavours also go brilliantly with seafood, poultry and steamed vegetables too!