In French gastronomy, cuisine bourgeoise is the home cooking of affluent city dwellers, as distinguished from elaborate restaurant cooking, haute cuisine, and from the cooking of the regions, the peasantry, and the urban poor.

What does a la Bourgeois mean?

adjective. Cooking. As postpositive. Of various dishes: prepared in a manner considered to be typical of French bourgeois domestic cookery, especially in being simple, wholesome, and flavourful.

What did the bourgeois eat?

Restaurants emerged as an alternative to eating at home and at the inns and taverns that most often served the working class with simple meals of boiled or roasted meat and a seasonal vegetable with an emphasis on alcoholic beverages at inns and on coffees and teas at cafes.