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2014-11-08
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We were the first customer of the restaurant as we are going for a concert at VCH. Luxury of having the whole restuarant to ourselves for a while. We ordered the set meal for the night, price reasonable $58++ with surcharge for Entrecote and Bouillabaisse.The set include soup (2 choices), main course (2 choices) & dessert (chocolate thingy)My wife and I just ordered all SoupMine was cream of wild mushroom. There's plenty of mushroom, but the soup has too much cream. So the soup is very thick & t
We ordered the set meal for the night, price reasonable $58++ with surcharge for Entrecote and Bouillabaisse.
The set include soup (2 choices), main course (2 choices) & dessert (chocolate thingy)
My wife and I just ordered all
Soup
Mine was cream of wild mushroom. There's plenty of mushroom, but the soup has too much cream. So the soup is very thick & the heavy cream over power the taste of the soup itself.
Bouillabaisse taste different than what I had from other French restaurants. I didn't catch the Saffron taste as I expect. It does have a hint of fish, shellfish. Seafood portion is ok considering the size of the soup.
Main Course
Black Cod was good. Cook to the right doneness. Overall taste good.
Entrecote was ok. The carrot puree was very good. The scalloped potato au gratin was under cook. The potato is still crunchy. The cream sauce could be thicker. Taste is ok. The Entrecote is cooked medium rare. Luckily I am ok with that as the waiter did not check with me when ordered. The meat is quite dry despite the beef was cooked correctly. My guess is the cut is not the Entrecote but other leaner cut. I had Entrecote quite often and they usually quite juicy. So this is dish is a slight disappointment.
Dessert is ok. Basically chocolate ice cream + juice sherbet + few berries. Standard.
My overall impression is OK, not as good as reported. May be we are too early?
Note: If the Set Menu is not impressive (same dishes also appear in Ala Carte menu), why should I come back for more? A set menu is a window to showcase a restaurant potential capabilities.
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