Lots of outstanding posts... and today, I am suffering from a bout of post diarrhoea... so, here goes...
Lafite is (or was rather) way up there in my choice of restaurants until I re-visited on 12 Feb 2007.... I should have trusted my instincts better when I saw "instant noodles" on the menu... Instead I brushed it aside and thot that they were just playing down an exquisite dish....
Prices have gone down (according to the chef de cuisine who came out to meet us, the restaurant is now full even on week days)... well, it's a no-brainer to figure out why...
I was very disappointed by the end of dinner.. well, even after appetizer.... apparently, the chef de cuisine is a new one... from Canada... I certainly will not be back until there is a new chef...
We had pan seared foie gras for appetizer... it's fine dining, so I kept my camera... but being so disappointed after, I just snapped away...
Main course of seared scallops - OVERDONE!!! Unacceptable for a restaurant of this calibre.. My boss asked if that was the solar system... I wasn't in the mood for humour...
His main course of lobster in macaroni.... He said it was acceptable..
My dessert - I tried to be safe by ordering fresh fruits... It came with a frothy sauce.. later I found out that the chef de cuisine is great at using stuffs like nitrogen and what not to create bubbles, sprays and "Breakfast" like the dessert below... It's actually a dessert with the "yolk" created from peach sauce (I think) which was cryogenically treated....
I have to give him credit for creativity but food sux...
Lafite used to give beautifully created petit fours at the end of meal... this time we had cotton candy sprayed with raspberry sauce hanging on a mini brown plastic tree in a pot filled with Smarties or M & M's (I couldn't even be bothered to look).. It was totally amateurish... I might as well go to McD for dinner and finish off with a candy bar from 7-11....
With all the gases used in the food preparation, I felt quite sick that night.... food did not stay overnight in my tummy....
Saving grace were the wines we ordered - the Sauternes (Chateau Broustet 2eme Classe Barsac 2000) and Beaune Montagne St. Desire...
Disclaimer : This is solely my opinion based on my own experience which may differ from the opinion of others.
3 comments:
oh dear, sorry to hear about your dining experience at lafite. actually, dinner there would be way beyond my league, so i wouldnt even dare venture there, but honestly, at those kind of prices, it should be perfection personified right!!!!
all this while, i confused u with another blogger with the KAYELL word...
groan, left comment earler, but got lost. shocking aint it, to pay thru your nose to have a bad dining experience. well, dinner there is beyond my league, so i wouldnt know, but the lunch, as u saw, was good value for money...and alas, i dont think anythingwas made with liquid nitrogen.
Sorry - I use the comments filtering system - got spam sometimes. The N was used to make bubbles and create stuffs like the peach "eggyolk" I think.. but all in all, very "technical".
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