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2011-10-24
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My friend who lives in rapidly changing Kennedy Town recommended this restaurant to me. She had lunch here on a weekday with her work friends and told me the food was rather nice. Last sunday we went to this French restaurant with my 3 year-old boy. By viewing the only 3 comments on the OP, I cannot believe that we are talking about the same restaurant. My friend resevered a table for three on that morning and when we arrived at the restaurant at 1:30pm, there was only a table of 3 customers fi
By viewing the only 3 comments on the OP, I cannot believe that we are talking about the same restaurant.
My friend resevered a table for three on that morning and when we arrived at the restaurant at 1:30pm, there was only a table of 3 customers finishing their meals and it was almost an empty restaurant. Looking at their menu it looks like they serve rather authentic French cusine although they served Sunday lunch set that day, I decided to go for the A` la carte menu. Since my boy likes potatoes I ordered duck fat potatoes for him and the waiter told me the duck fat potatoes were not ready. I was disappointed cos i think it is such a simple side dish and they don't do it for lunch? I changed my mind to the Sunday brunch set and it said ''all you can drink'' and i was told that it was all u can drink Mr. juicy! It sounds like some kind of kids' meal and even some all u can eat hotpot or korean BBQ. It put me off a bit and I'd rather they serve just a glass of fresh juice.
There had four choices for the three-course meal without derrerts, I chose mushroom soup and Sirloin steak and my friend went for Caesar salad, pumpkin and chestnut risotto. Each set charged at $198 and we were expecting some reasonable good lunch.
Waiter served us some bread to start with and it was nothing special but on the dry side. As long as my soup arrived, my heart sank, it's the most watery mushroom I have never seen! It didn't look right and it didn't taste right either. My friend's starter was a tiny bit better than mine but she skippped all the bacon bits cos they were not crispy but fatty.
At this stage my friend was wondering if it was the same chef who cooked the other day she came. Roughly finished our starters and our main courses arrived, they looked alright and my steak looked like medium rare as i ordered. Surprisingly, there were duck fat potatoes sitting on my plate! I didn't bother asking why they told me the potatoes were not ready but by looking at them, they were all dried out and rock hard. Moving on to my steak, it's my last hope, again,disappointment after disappointment, it was super tough and I tried so hard to cut through it and it's just impossible!
My friend must've felt a bit embarrassed that she took me to this place and she suggested that I should complain. I don't really believe in complaining of poor quality food and sending it back to the kitchen. I choose never return to it. I don't know how many chefs would admit that they cannot cook. When i was still struggling with my shoe-leathered steak, my friend found a sharp plastic object in her rissoto! We had no choice but told the waiter and he took the plate away and agreed that plastic was rather sharp. We were glad that on one was hurt specially my son and he was sharing all the food with us We also told him that my steak was inedible and we were not happy customers
He then offered me tuna to replace my steak and a free dessert to make it up with the harzadous risotto. To be honest, at this point we both wanted to leave asap but the waiter was quite sincere and he said he would reflect our opinion to the chef etc. My tuna was dry and after all these i had lost my apppetite completely so i had a few bite and left it. The waiter recommened a lemon tart for the complimentary dessert, the tart was really strange. It's got some lemony taste, almost runny curd filled in a tart shell and it wasn't baked and it wasn't even chilled to set. Would it be some special lemon tarts from somewhere of France?
When we finished our coffee and we were still the only customers, it it a sign?
Walking out the restaurant and paid $450 for the lousy food and drama, I wish I was in Soho somewhere sipping my fresh juice and having a more enjoyable Sunday brunch.
张贴