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2012-07-20
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Last night, my husband and I had the 4-course set dinner at Mistral. Since they never change the menu for the whole year, I would not be interested if not because of the many good previous reviews.The dinner started with bread which was warm and good. Then came the cheese with speck ham which was good. However, the following courses were very disappointing! The second course of tagliolini with lobster was well below average. If the menu did not say it was lobster, I could not tell there wa
The dinner started with bread which was warm and good. Then came the cheese with speck ham which was good. However, the following courses were very disappointing! The second course of tagliolini with lobster was well below average. If the menu did not say it was lobster, I could not tell there was lobster. There were only a few (maybe 3) very tiny dices of lobster flesh which were very dry and rough and had no lobster taste. The tagliolini was a bit too soft and not tasty.
The third course was cod fish for me and beef cheek for my husband. The cod fish had its natural smooth texture but not much taste. The baby cuttlefish was too salty. The beef cheek, while quite tasty, did not have the black truffle taste at all. I did not realize that the beef cheek was cooked with black truffle until I checked the menu today. What a failure! The beef cheek has been cooked so long that the whole thing was completely broken up easily.
Finally, the panna cotta was also disappointing. It was just ordinary.
I am most unhappy about the size of the second and third courses. They were of the size for a 10-course degustation menu! But it was only a 4-course dinner! If we did not have the bread and ask for more bread, we would be starving.
Given the tiny size and the ordinary dishes, the dinner at Mistral does not worth its price (which is not high in absolute term). Even though Pierre, Amber, Petrus, and Caprice (Caprice is not good now after getting the Michelin 3 star) etc. charge more than double the amount for their degustation menu, I would rather take my dinner in these restaurants which serve far better foods.
What’s more, Mistral does not provide good service. Even though my husband had finished his water for a long time, they did not refill water. When we told them to refill water, the waiter simply took away the glass and did not come back!
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