choux bunsAu Petit Salut! I've always loved french food for being so pretty. So on a rainy summer day, I headed down to Au Petit Salut in Dempsey for lunch with a friend.
It's located rather off the beaten track (as all restaraunts in Dempsey are anyway) and impossible to get to without a car and worse still to leave. It's located in this gorgeous glass building that lets in light without the heat. It's a really pretty chic and casual place to have lunch in.I have no idea what it's like for dinner though, and if it remains the way it does for lunch, it may just be a tad bit too casual to justify the price for dinner. But you never know, they seemed like an amazing restaurant that was capable of transformation post lunch.
So we had the set lunch which was approximately 30+ per person which included a started, a main and rounds off nicely with dessert. The menu wasn't limited the way you'd expect a set lunch to be. After sneaking a peek at the dinner menu, it was evident that the lunch menu items weren't run offs from last night dinner too. There was also the option of the executive set lunch at about 60+ for those who wanted more options.
As a starter, I had the half dozen baked burgundy snails with tomato and garlic butter. It was absolutely yummy. But then again, I really do love snails, escargot or gong gong. The snails were soaked in the sauce. The greatest problem I've found in most food is that the food doesn't quite absorb the fragrance and taste of the sauce, making the dish extremely dissatisfying and bland when eaten. It wasn't the case with this dish though. (:
For the main, I had the Pan-seared “Onglet” beef served with confit shallots and French fries. Sad to say, this was disappointing. It was dry and the beef over done even though I asked for it medium. The fries were just average as well. Perhaps I'd picked the wrong dish for my main.
Finally, for the dessert, I had Choux buns filled with vanilla ice cream in warm chocolate sauce, sliced almonds. They were absolutely mindblowingly delicious. I really do have quite a sweet tooth and if there's one thing I think I'm discerning about, it's definitely desserts. These were really really really good. There was a nice mixture of warm and cold which didn't give that annoying freezing, cloying feeling that is sometimes experienced when chefs try to mix foods of different temperature. I suspect thought that some might find the dish a little too sweet for their liking. I really liked this dish though. Sometimes when you take different bits and put them together, you get just that - vanilla, chocolate and almonds. I particularly like this dish because the three ingredients were put together to produce a very unique seperate individual taste.
So after all is said and done, Au Petit Salut does provide a pretty decent meal for the price. It's also a really good place to catch up with friends over lunch. However, having it being so far from my house and being such a chore to get to and to make reservations for, it simply wasn't worth the effort and we haven't quite gone back in awhile.
It's located rather off the beaten track (as all restaraunts in Dempsey are anyway) and impossible to get to without a car and worse still to leave. It's located in this gorgeous glass building that lets in light without the heat. It's a really pretty chic and casual place to have lunch in.I have no idea what it's like for dinner though, and if it remains the way it does for lunch, it may just be a tad bit too casual to justify the price for dinner. But you never know, they seemed like an amazing restaurant that was capable of transformation post lunch.
So we had the set lunch which was approximately 30+ per person which included a started, a main and rounds off nicely with dessert. The menu wasn't limited the way you'd expect a set lunch to be. After sneaking a peek at the dinner menu, it was evident that the lunch menu items weren't run offs from last night dinner too. There was also the option of the executive set lunch at about 60+ for those who wanted more options.
As a starter, I had the half dozen baked burgundy snails with tomato and garlic butter. It was absolutely yummy. But then again, I really do love snails, escargot or gong gong. The snails were soaked in the sauce. The greatest problem I've found in most food is that the food doesn't quite absorb the fragrance and taste of the sauce, making the dish extremely dissatisfying and bland when eaten. It wasn't the case with this dish though. (:
For the main, I had the Pan-seared “Onglet” beef served with confit shallots and French fries. Sad to say, this was disappointing. It was dry and the beef over done even though I asked for it medium. The fries were just average as well. Perhaps I'd picked the wrong dish for my main.
Finally, for the dessert, I had Choux buns filled with vanilla ice cream in warm chocolate sauce, sliced almonds. They were absolutely mindblowingly delicious. I really do have quite a sweet tooth and if there's one thing I think I'm discerning about, it's definitely desserts. These were really really really good. There was a nice mixture of warm and cold which didn't give that annoying freezing, cloying feeling that is sometimes experienced when chefs try to mix foods of different temperature. I suspect thought that some might find the dish a little too sweet for their liking. I really liked this dish though. Sometimes when you take different bits and put them together, you get just that - vanilla, chocolate and almonds. I particularly like this dish because the three ingredients were put together to produce a very unique seperate individual taste.
So after all is said and done, Au Petit Salut does provide a pretty decent meal for the price. It's also a really good place to catch up with friends over lunch. However, having it being so far from my house and being such a chore to get to and to make reservations for, it simply wasn't worth the effort and we haven't quite gone back in awhile.
au petit salut - dempsey road
price - $30 for set lunch
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