L'Etoile, Charlotte Street
I'll be honest, I didn't want to write this review because I didn't
really enjoy the meal and you know I never like to post a bad review but the
restaurant preferred I wrote a bad post than not write one at all so here
it is.
The place is called L'Etoile and it's on Charlotte Street. I walk past it every day at work and from the outside, it looked like a cute little french restaurant so I was very excited to be invited for dinner a few weeks ago. We arrived at around 6 on Friday night and the lovely staff greeted us with a glass of fizz! To be fair, the staff were really lovely, happy and attentive
throughout the evening and the food wasn't bad as such, there was
nothing wrong with it, I just didn't enjoy it or being there at all and left feeling as though
I'd wasted a Friday night. To be honest, I was happy to leave and
do something a bit more exciting by the end of it.
Andrew started with muscles
and I had crab mac n cheese which admittedly was the best part of the meal although it was far too creamy so I only ate half of it.
It came out in a cute little pot with a lid which looked great and left
me pretty excited for the rest of the meal, which sadly didn't live up
to my expectations.
The main I found, along with the clientele and the setting, very
traditional and old fashion and that is just not my style when its comes to food. I love trying exciting, quirky food with new and interesting twists and that is not how you would describe my lamb or Andrews beef for that matter. 
I
was pretty also unimpressed with desserts. Andrew ordered "black forest
chocolate decadence" which turned out to be a brownie with some fruit in a
sauce on top. I went for a lemon posset, the dessert itself was nothing to write home about and I was not really not a fan of the presentation of mine, the little serviette underneath just makes it feel so cheap in my opinion.
MMM this looks divine!
ReplyDeleteSophie x
Love the way your blog is moving these days, I only seem to find eatery reviews pop up on my feed, who knew you'd end up as a restaurant critic. Sorry you didn't enjoy the dinner but frim seeing the pictures it looks like it's average clientele age would be similar to that found on a cruise ship :)
ReplyDeleteVicky xx
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