Le Relais de l'Entrecôte (Closed)

Item: Le Relais de l'Entrecôte
Rating: 4
Author: Stujitha

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4346

Wan Chai

$201-400

French Steak House

Stujitha

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Made a reservation and got a table immediately as there were only two or three tables occupied, when we arrived. However, more tables filled up later (I think our reservation was for around 7.45 p.m.).Don't expect many choices for main courses on the menu but we were anyway going for steak frites and that's what we got. We ordered one each; it came with a free-flow of fries, a plate of bread for the table bread and a salad each. The beautiful plate of baguette was very tasty with French butter

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Made a reservation and got a table immediately as there were only two or three tables occupied, when we arrived. However, more tables filled up later (I think our reservation was for around 7.45 p.m.).

Don't expect many choices for main courses on the menu but we were anyway going for steak frites and that's what we got. We ordered on
e each; it came with a free-flow of fries, a plate of bread for the table bread and a salad each. The beautiful plate of baguette was very tasty with French butter. Our generous servings of salads came with some tangy sauce and walnuts. They do not serve ketchup. I usually hate eating veg but I polished this one off; it was simple yet refreshing.

Our steaks were then served, with a huge stack of fries on the side. The fries were, sadly, nothing special and not very w
arm to the touch. They seemed to have been sitting around quite some time. My partner was sure they were packaged fries. Neither of us could finish our first serving of fries.

The steaks we ordered done medium rare. They were perfectly done, a hint of pink, without oozing blood all over the plate.
The sauce, I can't place what it was but I didn't find it outstanding. Given a choice, I would have asked for it on the side.

When we had done with our steak, we were feeling a bit like "hmmm... that was nice but not really quite enough meat", when the waitress came round and said "ready for your steak?" ! Ah yes, totally forgot that at some steak frites places, they reserve half of your meat so that you can get it served up warm, later! Wonderful. So we had another half of the steak served and then felt full.

Still, since dinner went so well, we thought we must try dessert. I ordered the creme brulee and my partner got the profiteroles.

The creme brulee came at room temperature (or slightly chilled) under the perfect sugar top. The sugar top (?) wasn't too thick nor too thin, making it easily crackable and light in the mouth. The custard below was milky, flavoured with fresh vanilla pods. Maybe one of the best creme brulee I have had anywhere, I could have had two all by myself.
According to my partner, the profiteroles were equally good and very rich.

As for drinks, I just had water (served in a really nice bottle) while my partner had two bottles of 1664 beer.