French Onion Soup & Dating Stories @FigaroCafe Los Feliz

By notoriouslysinglegirl, December 6, 2024

Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day and awakens and refines the appetite.

August Escoffier

Soup, it’s that warm soothing liquid that makes you feel good. However, a French onion soup with ooey gooey melted Gruyère cheese floating on top of French bread is a “pies de resistance.”

Figarro cafe does French onion soup the right way. Not too salty. Not too sweet. The onions swimming in broth are cooked to perfection.

One of the things I love about Figarro cafe, besides their French onion soup is sitting outside on the sidewalk. It totally feels like you’ve been transported to a French cafe in Paris except instead of sitting next to sophisticated Parisians, your sitting next to “hipsters.”

“My off again on again boyfriend started to text me again. He lives in San Diego. He’s always traveling for work and pleasure. The other day he texted me from the airport and said he just decided to go to Italy for the next few weeks.” The hipster chick next to me was complaining to her hipster friend sitting next to her.

“Why did you break up with him?” Asks the hipster friend.

“He was too emotionally unavailable and had an avoidant attachment style” the other hipster friend replied.

My theory

I don’t believe in attachment styles. I think they are bullshit. What I think is going on here is that the guy this “hipster” gal was dating in San Diego is probably a dopamine addict and possibly addicted to substances porn and of course adventure. So, when this guy gets bored and needs another “dopamine” hit, he disappears, becomes detached starts to ghost and hops on a plane off to his next adventure fueling his dopamine high. That’s what’s really going on.

It’s sad. The guy from San Diego probably doesn’t even realize that his addiction and need for constant dopamine is controlling his life, and maybe his avoidant attachment style is really masked as “addiction” or bipolar disorder.

And sure, this guy may seem exciting. Fun. Just like a drug he leaves you wanting more.

Then there was Virgil

A young mother with a gorgeous baby with sparkly blue eyes sits next to the hipster gals swapping dating stories. I guess you can consider her a “hipster mom.”

“You’re baby is so cute. What’s his name?”asks one of the hipster dating gals.

“His name is Virgil” answers the hipster mom.

“Oh like the street ?“ asks the hipster gal.

The hipster mom laughs and says “No like the poet in Dantes Divine Comedy.”

Yes. We need more poetic guides to lead us through this insane dating inferno. Virgil’s presence alone brought hope to the two hipster gals. However, before DANTE started his descent into the inferno he passes a sign that reads “abandon all hope ye who enter here!” The same saying is located at the entrance of the Pirates-of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland.

I fir one one am done with dating pirates and subconscious ghosts of past boyfriends.

Moral of the story: look at your patterns and change your direction and eat more soup at fancy French cafes like Fogaro cafe in Los Feliz.