1. La Maison Fatien
This is long overdue, but my family went to La Maison Fatien for french food on my parent's wedding anniversary. It was a really pretty bistro at Duxton, housed in quaint multi storey shophouse.
For starters we had french onion soup with gruyere cheese and bread, as well as escargot in garlic parsley butter. I think the soup was pretty good, comforting and hearty, Just that perhaps I'm not that much a fan of cheese, and we left a lot of cheese wasted at the bottom of the bowl. I don't eat snails, but dipped my bread in the butter sauce and it was yumsss.
Duck confit ($25++) was not bad, tender enough and it was served with potatoes that seemed something like softer potato chips. Lols, bad description, but it was good! We definitely liked this more than the beef
This is the beef ($115++) it was a large serving of 1kg, and we don't get to choose how rare we want the meat to be. They bring it and carve it off the bone for us though, so that was rather cool. It was pretty good, but unfortunately, very rare and bloody. So I guess for those of us who are not used to it, it was a bit too much. Maybe we should have asked for it to be cooked further, but my dad loved it the way it was so we didn't.
It came with super yummy side dishes, potato gratin and french beans. Loved this! Yum!
We were quite full by then, so we just ordered one chocolate fondant cake ($15++). We thought that this wasn't worth it at all, since it was just like any other molten lava cake.
Overall, it was alright, service was slightly pushy in that the staff kept commenting that we weren't ordering enough, which kinda got us irritated towards the end. I guess if we went again, we'd not order such a huge serving of beef, but rather try the other dishes such as fish.
This was a really interesting cafe at lavender that us dancers went to after lesson! It's themed like a cafe in the woods, and is rather cosy with wooden benches and tables, and a large tree centrepiece. They specialise in pies, obviously. We had 3 pies to share, a mint chocolate, vodka lime and lemon curd with raspberry i think. Each pie was $7, and pretty yummy. It was cute that it was served on a wooden tray like that. haha, I liked the mint chocolate one best, but I'm biased towards chocolate.
They also have an interesting pop up restaurant within their compounds called fortnight. I think the menu changes every fortnight. They have interesting things, like chicken heart spaghetti. I opted for a safe roast beef sandwich ($14). It was really good!!! The beef was soft and tender, and the serving was generous. Only gripe is that the corn chips were cold.
Will be back here someday when I have someone to date! haha
I'm no food connoisseur, so maybe i'm just easy to please, but I really enjoyed Thai food here!
Carin and I ordered a set which cost about $50 in total I think. We had a red chicken curry, spring rolls, chilli kang kong to share, as well as a super yummy fish tom yum soup each and unlimited rice.
omg i loved the tom yum soup so much I've been craving for it. hahah i don't know though whether it's objectively real good though, cos i've probably only ever had one or two tom yum soups before.
4. Very very early pre Christmas outing with the girls
Have been missing these girls because we haven't been able to catch a common date to meet up for more than 3 months!!!
Had soups and salads and then headed to Canele for dessert.
Tania is going to china till Chinese new year for work, so i guess it's going to be a long time before we meet again ):
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