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I opened an OpenRice account just so that I can write this review. That's how disappointed I am with L'Entrecôte De Paris.Let me just get this out in the open: don't bother with L'Entrecôte De Paris and just go to La Vache, even if you have to wait more than an hour for a table.I ordered my steak medium rare, it came well-done. The waiter was kind enough when I told him about the mishap. However, bizarrely, he presented me with the other half of the steak which hadn't been put on my plate yet, i
Let me just get this out in the open: don't bother with L'Entrecôte De Paris and just go to La Vache, even if you have to wait more than an hour for a table.
I ordered my steak medium rare, it came well-done. The waiter was kind enough when I told him about the mishap. However, bizarrely, he presented me with the other half of the steak which hadn't been put on my plate yet, it didn't look nearly as well-done, but it didn't look medium rare either. Regardless, he said he would inform the kitchen and bring me one that was cooked to my request. Perhaps in fear of overcooking my steak again, a new one was served to me but this time it was rare. Whatever, I let it slide. I was hungry.
Under or overcooking a steak isn't a dealbreaker for me, although for a restaurant that supposedly specialises in steak it's a bit baffling. I wouldn't be writing this review if that was the only fault with our food, unfortunately it wasn't. The quality of the beef was questionable, at best, a strange, battered texture that felt like the antithesis of fresh. The steak also lacked taste. Not only was the seasoning poor (if any) but it also didn't really taste like beef. A fault perhaps our servers tried to hide by slathering the steak with their house sauce, which normally would be a good idea if the sauce itself wasn't severely underwhelming. The presentation of the food was also lacking. You'd think with food that tasted so poor they'd at least try and plate everything well, but no, zero effort. Something that was made abundantly clear as our server lazily tilted the plate of fries to an angle and slid them off the metal serving plate to my own with his tongs. Like I said, baffling.
Our salad was also pathetically small and although the frites were nice and crispy, much like everything else we were served, they didn't taste much of anything.
The one redeeming quality about L'Entrecôte De Paris was the service. Everything else was an abject failure. I blame myself for not being patient enough to wait for a table at La Vache. Don't make the same mistake I did.
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