Food Review #7 - L'Entrecote

That day 4 of us went to L'Entrecote for dinner.  One of my friends have tried the Paris branch and wanted to try out the Singapore branch as well.

We made a reservation for 7pm but the restaurant was quite empty. There were about 3-4 occupied tables only, in a restaurant that could sit about 100. Once we sat down, they offered us complimentary drinks, some white wine mixed with dunno what berries. Not bad. :)

We ordered our mains (they only have one type of main - steak) and some appetizers.

This was their foie gras. I don't like foie gras, because of its taste and because of it's methods of processing. Anyway i think the general consensus among those who ate it is that it is not bad. I ate the bread and that's nice though, we asked for seconds. :D

The main course comes with a walnut salad. This was pretty refreshing, accompanied by crispy greens.

We were pretty happy with the escargots. These 6 little buggers were snapped up in no time.

Ta-dah! Here's the main lead for the day. They've already sliced up your steak for you but it's still too big a piece to pop into the mouth. I ordered medium rare and I felt that the beef was quite good, just that I didn't really like the sauce much coz it was sourish - probably balsamic vinegar. The gravy overpowered the steak so that was quite sad. Fries were very well done, each one was crispy and you get free-flow fries!

My friend who've been to the Paris branch commented that the one there is much better. When asked, the waiters replied that they adopted the same recipe, but they did add that probably ingredient quality is still different. Not that the ingredient quality the Singapore branch uses is not good or low, but well I suppose there's differences between the balsamic vinegar we use and the ones they use! (Just an example)

I remember this! It's named Crepes Suzette on the menu. Actually I liked this alot, though the hubs complained it was too sour. Well it's citrus hello what did u expect? For a person like him who can't take sourish stuff, it's probably too much but I personally like it. I find the sour taste quite well balanced with the sweet.

Their signature lava cake. I don't know whether I missed it or they didn't state it, but I was really looking forward to a chocolate lava cake, not caramel lava cake. I dislike caramel as I find that it can be very sickeningly sweet at times. This wasn't too bad but honestly speaking it wasn't outstanding either. The scoop of ice cream was nice though, very fragrant. :)

All in all, the hubs and I concluded that we would probably not go back again as it's not really worth the money. To us, there are definitely better steaks out there.