FOOD AND DRINK

In [#116 Someone To Watch Over Me], Chez Sandrine is the destination of choice when the Doctor encourages Seven to explore the rituals of human courtship. He gets her to let her hair down (literally) though in fact he is the one who undoes her hair and, following his social lesson 'Lesson 8: Dress for success' he picks out a suitable garment. She enters the holoprogram to find that Chapman is waiting for her at the bar counter, wondering if she will turn up, suspecting that one of his friends put her up to asking him out for dinner. They both experience shyness and awkwardness on first meeting each other in a romantic date situation, and these feelings of discomfort continue throughout their evening together. Chapman escorts Seven to what he refers to as the "best table in the house". The main course (no entrées are seen) which is served to Seven and William Chapman is a whole cooked lobster each accompanied by lemon sliced into eighths to squeeze lemon juice over the extracted meat. The lobster is impressively served to them at the best table in the house by one of the waiters, an alien, who brings over a portable fold-out service tray-table on which he briefly rests the two large platters on which the lobsters are presented. The table is already laid with lobster knives (or fork-spoons as these were usually used on 21st century Earth to prise the lobster meat out of the claws and main carcass) to be employed by the diners after, say, breaking off a claw and cracking it open. Seven, however, is ill-at-ease, observing that the creature has an exo-skeleton, for being once Borg she retains part of the Borg "exo-skeleton". She is also unfamiliar with the species of lobster, and Chapman explains that it is a delicacy on Earth. She looks toward the Doctor for guidance, who is there taking the role of the piano player, and he briefly uses his hands to mime cracking the lobster, whereupon she picks up the entire lobster and firmly cracks it at its middle, unintentionally letting fly over Chapman parts of the cooked lobster meat within. He dismisses the faux pas lightly, while picking pieces of lobster off his clothes including a piece of exoskeleton from his face, but Seven is mortified. Illustrated episode excerpt

There seems to be a replicator in both the real and the holographic Chez Sandrine (see screenshots below), though it differs a bit in appearance to the replicators on Voyager. I believe it is less plausible that the one located not behind the bar is a juke-box, as there is the holographic accordion-player to provide music and a juke-box does not seem to correspond with the setting of the holoprogram, but there is nothing in the series to indicate which or if it is another piece of equipment altogether. Its location behind the bar in the picture below left supports replicator or juke-box, whilst its location in the below right picture adds weight to it being a juke-box since, in the real Chez Sandrine at least, it is likely that the replication of food or drink would be restricted to bar staff on behalf of customers. However, since money is not in use on Earth (by humans anyway) in the 24th century, having such a restriction would not be in order to prevent customers getting free drinks or food and thereby deprive the establishment of money but possibly, and this is speculation, to control power usage.

item to Janeway's right, our left, behind the bar

?replicator or ?juke-box behind the bar of the real Chez Sandrine, [#22 Non Sequitur]

?replicator or ?juke-box in the area of the bar not restricted to bar staff, [#6 The Cloud] ?replicator or ?juke-box on left of another picture, [#35 Lifesigns]

The birthday cake that Neelix presents to Kes to help celebrate her second birthday was made by him and not produced in the holoprogram, [#19 Twisted].

The bar serves a variety of drinks including synthehol. Synthehol is an alcoholic substitute invented by the Ferengi which permits one to have the intoxicating effects of alcoholic beverages without the deleterious consequences, assuming that, unlike Kadi ambassador Tomin in [#116 Someone To Watch Over Me], the appropriate enzymes are present in one's bloodstream.

holo-Sandrine by the bar, [#19 Twisted]

in Voyager's Messhall, Tomin passes out due to synthehol, [#116 Someone To Watch Over Me]

Synthehol is mentioned in earlier Star Trek, in [TNG: Family] and [TNG: Relics], as well as in [Voyager]. In [#116 Someone To Watch Over Me], when offered champagne Seven informs her date, William Chapman: "Synthehol impairs my cortical function. Water will suffice." She first learned the hard way about synthehol's effects on her at a champagne celebration in [#100 Timeless]. The bar also serves holographic wine, and Paris reassures Kim on the matter of alcohol:

Paris calls out: "Break open a bottle of that '46 St Emilion you saved behind the bar for me." Kim: "I don't like to drink this late at night. I get an acid heartburn." Paris: "Harry, it's holographic wine - doesn't give you acid. Try to get in the mood, huh?" Kim: "Sorry." [#6 The Cloud]

As well as drink and hot beverages such as coffee (Neelix orders "coffee, black" for Tomin to try and sober him up rapidly, in [#116 Someone To Watch Over Me]), food is also served. In [#45 The Chute], while incarcerated in an Akritirian prison hell-hole, Paris and Kim fantasise about wonderful food dishes they would like to eat, and even Neelix's leola root stew. Their conversation indicates that the real Chez Sandrine serves not only food but certain delicacies, and it is likely that Paris incorporated this aspect in his re-creation of the holoscenario.

Kim: "Damn! I can't think! I can't concentrate!" Paris: "OK. OK, concentrate on this - crown roast of lamb, with a bed of wild rice, and a 2296 Chateau Lafitte Rothschild at the real Sandrine's." Kim: "Or how about shrimp with fettran sauce, flambé noodles and fudge ripple pudding." Paris: "Good one. OK. A couple of barbecued T-bone steaks with baked Risan beans and cherry pie for dessert. Let's see you top that one." Kim: "Right now, I'm so hungry I could eat a bowl of Neelix's leola root stew." Paris: "Me too. Never thought I'd say that." [#45 The Chute]