Le Gavroche review by Brent Bottoms
Very disappointed would be my summary. Took my wife there for our anniversary and it was a letdown. Service was top class, room was slightly stuffy but the atmosphere was very good. I hate having to wear a jacket through dinner and they insisted. This is 2008, not 1928, customer comfort should take precedent over historically oriented pretense.
Now the food, we had the 8 course Menu Exceptionel, which we found to be lacking. Far below the standards of Per Se in NY or Ramsay's on Royal Hospital Road, not even as good as Manoir Quat Saisons which isn't rated nearly as highly. Summary below:
Scallops - superb, easily the best dish and possibly the best scallops I have ever eaten
Cheese souffle - souffle itself was bland, the cheese, cream and butter it was floating in was so rich it made you want to not touch a dairy product for 6 weeks
Seabass - good, particularly the roasted red pepper coulis, but the seabass itself would barely fill a tablespoon
Foie gras and duck - very rich, too rich. I'm not a fan of pan fried foie gras so this may just be personal taste, but I found this a very rich and uninteresting dish
Lamb - the lamb itself was the best I've ever eaten, like butter it was so tender and incredible flavour, but it was carved at the table and the whole presentation was amateurish. Two tbsps of boring, overcooked beans plus two small carrots slopped on the plate, an uninteresting sauce served. Shame as the lamb was superb but they should be able to do better
Cheese - very good selection
Pineapple, rum and a caramel doughnut dessert - awful dish, a stodgy horrible doughnut with some pineapple best sums it up, terrible
Chocolate coffee cake with choclate sorbet - probably OK but if you aren't a chocolate fan it offers nothing else.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Overall rating 
Food 6 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 2
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