Friday, September 30, 2011

Au Petit Salut

One day as a treat after the exams in September, we brought the kids to Au Petit Salut for lunch. It's a French, fine dining restaurant which offers an excellent set lunch for $32++. Not only is it great value, more importantly, the quality of the food is simply top notch.

Our family loves French food and one of the highlights of Au Petit Salut is their half dozen baked Burgundy snails with tomato and garlic butter. Words cannot describe how yummilicious this is - after you've eaten the snails, you soak up the garlic sauce with bread. Heaven!

Another entree, orange and pink peppercorn salmon tartare with baby spinach salad. This one is good too but not as good as the snails.

Lesley-Anne ordered the soup of the day, which was pumpkin soup. I didn't take a photo of it as it didn't look very special but oh golly, was I wrong. It is simply the BEST pumpkin soup I've ever tasted, no exaggeration. We went from "why would you order soup here" to "we must order the soup the next time!"

This is one of our favourite main courses - red wine braised beef cheeks with carrots, mushrooms and parsley potatoes. Melt-in-your-mouth tender. Mmmm...

Kenneth ordered the pork shoulder stewed in wholegrain mustard with creamy polenta. It's not something you can get everyday, the polenta is a lovely change from regular mashed potatoes. You probably need to be a pork fan though. I prefer the beef cheeks.

And finally, dessert. Homemade strawberry shortcake and raspberry coulis for Andre.

Crème brulée infused with fresh Madagascar vanilla beans.

If you're a chocoholic like me, there is only one dessert you have to try - Petit Pot au Chocolat. It's a pot of ultra-smooth chocolate mousse topped with hot chocolate sauce and whipped cream.

The portions are un-Frenchily large, I can barely finish one set lunch without feeling like I'm going to bust the seams on my pants. At $32++, it really is wonderful value and obviously we're not the only folks who think so, judging from the number of diners at this place. Reservations strongly recommended, if you don't want to be disappointed.

17 comments:

Lilian said...

Mmmmm...really looks so good. So the set lunch is a 3-course meal? An appetiser, a main and a dessert? Did you order 4 sets for 4 of you? No longer cheap then haha.

monlim said...

It's a 3-course with coffee/tea. For 4 of us, 4 set lunches are really too much, so we ordered only 3. But since this is an atas place, they only allowed us to do this if we ordered another appetiser at $14. Haha.

We didn't mind since the appetisers are really super. Overall, more than enough food, esp when the snail sauce is so yummy we couldn't stop eating the bread rolls with it!

Anonymous said...

Sounds delicious - will definitely try the place out!

Another French place that has good value set lunches that start @$29++ is Cocotte - www.restaurantcocotte.com. They have must-try dishes that are great & portions are huge too.

Read the reviews here :http://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/cocotte/

Anonymous said...

ok set, I am going, Mon! No second thoughts. :)

qx

monlim said...

QX: Go, go! You won't regret it, promise :)

Anonymous said...

Yes Mon, I definitely won't regret the experience of devouring the delicacies but I might regret the inches popping out at the waistline..... LOL... Aye...but who cares....tomorrow will take care of itself!! ;p Life is short.

qx

Anonymous said...

Sorry Mon, you took the turning in from Minden Road?

qx

monlim said...

QX: Minden Rd, correct. Aiyah, do like us, skip breakfast on that day, then go for lunch! :P

Anonymous said...

Good suggestion Mon!! On!! :D
Thanks for the recommendation and directions. :)

qx

monlim said...

You're welcome! Let me know how you like it :)

Anonymous said...

Yes I will....thinking about it makes me drool...LOL

qx

Anonymous said...

Mon, wanted to make a reservation for lunch today....guess what? Fully booked by 10:46 and they open at 11:30am??... *sigh* so disappointed...looks like must book a few days in advance?

qx

monlim said...

Wow! So maybe I shouldn't have added to the restaurant's popularity by blogging about it :P

Anonymous said...

Hey Mon, they need to pay you for raising their popularity.... now I am so sulking..... :(

qx

monlim said...

LOL... I should have said, "over-rated and overhyped! don't go there!"

Anonymous said...

LOL you are hilarious Mon! Seriously, if their business takes an upward spike suddenly in figures, they should trace it back to your blog...the power of yr writing transmitted on internet... :)

qx

monlim said...

Hahaha, don't think so lah. They were already popular before this! Unless all my readers are foodies too...

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