A relatively small place with incredible old school service – like the guest gets a menu without the prices, purse stools and lots of napkin re-folding – it felt like a treat to be there with friendly not waitstaff that anticipated your every need. They have several choices at lunch with a large or Prestige tasting menu, an a la carte menu and a lunch menu. The last sounded the best to us and was without a doubt the best deal. They also offered a couple specials of the day, one being the aged parmesan sauce pasta with white truffles, which we added to our 3 course lunch.
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All the food was very good and beautifully presented but the pasta was truly a memorable dish where it’s like eating something heavenly. We started with an amuse that looked like the usual egg shell thing but turned out to be a really tasty potato dish. After our lunch dessert they brought out the extras which were all worth eating but the peanut butter brittle was divine and guess what? They brought me a second dish of it – that’s the kind of place that makes you want to go back real soon!
table flowermenu covermenu picturemenu 1menu 2Menu Prestigelunch menuDessert and cheese menumenuSalted butter presentationBread choices: Bacon roll, pretzel roll, sour dough breaddecanting the winewine frontwine backpurse stoolAmuse bouche: Baked potato, egg, cheese and crispy chives. Splendid!Warm salad of duck with seared duck foie gras, duck confit, beetroot, pickled blackberry, duck egg and elderberry ketchup. All the elements were very tasty as was the sauce. I might have enjoyed more sauce but it was FINE as it was.Linguini with aged 4 year old parmesan cream saucehere comes the Alba white trufflesgrate them on the pastaand added to the pasta to complete the dishFrankie checking out the butterPoacheed partridge and foie gras with Jerusalem artichokes, wild leeks and game consomme. A wonderful plate with hints of tarragon.There’s almost more foie gras than partridgeNone left for FrankieAmazing dessert wineWilliams pear, waffles, walnuts and goat’s milk caramel. It was delicious!Rose water jellies – they taste like you’re eating the smell of a roseFrozen orange and white chocolate balls. A bit of sorbet in the middle – Great!insidePeanut butter and chocolate brittle – spectacular!Frankie chillin’Head chef Matt Abe and the kitchenmore kitchendining room filled upMaitre d’ Jean-Claude Breton who’s been there 18 yearsshe liked the fluffy towels and flowers in the bathroom