25 Jul

Phillippa Sibley's new venture is a fixed price (hence the name), ticketed restaurant - apparently the first of its kind in Melbourne. Places are booked and paid for in advance online, though walk-ins are welcome if there's space to accommodate. We visited for lunch, which is $49 for 2 courses and a glass of wine. Once at the restaurant, the meal can be upgraded to a 3-course lunch for $65.Their 4-course dinner for $79. Apart from the set menu, this month they were offering freshly shucked oysters and...

15:15 / Food / French / Melbourne CBD / Prix Fixe / Restaurants
18 Jan

Brunch consisted of: appetisers of beef and/or chicken satay skewers, fruit and herbed prawn with a mixed fennel and tomato salad. Mains were a choice of Tubot Meuniere (signature dish by Amandine Chaignot, with mashed carrot and vanilla coconut kaffir lime sauce), Stuffed Beef w. Porcini Mushrooms (signature dish by Michel Quaissac, with roasted potatoes, sautéed porcini mushrooms, baby tomato and mushroom sauce), Seared Chicken Breast (filled with mozzarella and spinach, served with herb potato ratte, roasted root veggies and mushroom sauce) and Lamb Briyani. Mum had the...

19:38 / Dessert/Sweets / French / KL / Malaysia Airlines
18 Jan

Appetisers were satay (this time the veggie sticks came with ketupak) and wasabi prawn and grilled scallops with papaya salsa and salad. The prawn was quite nice. The scallops were pretty brown and for a moment I forgot that the appetiser included scallops and thought it was some sort of potato or bread. Mains were: Braised lamb shank in coriander tomato jus (signature dish by Zubir Zain. With Mediterranean veggies, eggplant mille feuille, buttered cheese tortellini and lemon gremolata); Chicken rendang; Stir-fried prawn with dry chili w. rice,...

08:45 / French / KL / Malaysia Airlines
14 Jan

I wanted to go to O Des Lys for dinner because it was only ~5 minutes’ walk away and it’s been rated well, but it was fully booked. We went around looking for something to eat. The first place we saw was even more expensive the O Des Lys. The second one was a pub sort of restaurant called Grill St Jean Restaurant. I didn’t think it looked too promising, but mum didn’t want to walk anymore, so in we went. Dad had braised duck leg with grapes and...

22:29 / Bar/Pub / France / French / Grill St Jean Restaurant / Troyes
13 Jan

All the mains at Restaurant Albert were €23, but the menu sounded OK and nothing else around was open except for the sports wine bar. I wasn’t actually that hungry, but we don’t have many days left in France and I want to make the most of my time here. I was tossing up between the veal steak with artichokes and wild mushrooms and the quail stuffed with walnuts on a bed of spicy vegetables. Dad was choosing between the same things or the squid with fish stuffing...

22:26 / France / French / Lyon / Restaurant Albert
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