A group of us booked ahead of time, so we didn't have to wait for our table.
The lunch set was of two kinds: curry (with bread or rice) or soup with tagliatelle.
Within the sets you could choose what you wanted to pair your curry with (fish, meat, veggies). For the tagliatelle you could choose that plus the soup.
So I was very confused as to whether the soup was separate or the pasta was IN the soup.. I decided to give that a try. Most of my friends ordered the curry set, though whether that is French cuisine is questionnable. The taste was very similar to Japanese curry.
The soup with tagliatelle was in fact soup with tagliatelle and whatever you chose (ratatouille, meat, mussels, salmon) in it. To keep constant with the Japanese example, let's say this was like ramen?
I chose the cauliflower, basil sweet corn soup and ratatouille. Gosh, I haven't made a worse choice for food I think. The vegetables in the ratatouille were diced in very small pieces, making it almost like a tomato sauce on top of my soup and pasta. The soup itself also wasn't very strong, which would have been OK if it were just soup, but since pasta is tasteless too (just flour), there just wasn't enough flavour. Where's my sauce!!
A friend who ordered the mussels with french onion soup and tagliatelle also wasn't satisfied. We though that perhaps the carrot ginger soup base with beef shanks may have been best because at least there was taste, though again the combination was a bit sketchy.
I'm not sure if they're trying to save ingredients for dinner, and according to the dinner reviews, the restaurant seems OK. But lunch, no. I don't know what makes the lunch French at all.
Well at least there's no service charge.
Decor is antique with a lot of tree branches overhead, Christmas lights, and curtains making boundaries for 2 top tables. Homey but lacking elegancy.
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