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| Photo from weekendhk.com |
I went to Brasserie de L'île last Friday for lunch with AB. I was panicking because I hadn't made a reservation and of course all of the lunch favorites were booked. A quick search on some of my go-to sites on my blogroll led me to recall the new French bistro on Arbuthnot Road - one mentioned "the best mussels in Hong Kong so far...". A bold statement indeed, but was it true?
Don't you just love a good bistro? They are really popping up all over the place, aren't they? Did you know that 'the French community in Hong Kong has grown more than 60% since 2006, and now numbers more than 10,000?'. I was so relieved to find that they could make room for us, and anticipated a nice French lunch.
That was, sadly, not to be. First of all, I always judge a French restaurant by the quality of it's bread - if they can't get that right, then your meal is doomed from the start.
The 'baguette' looked as if it had been bought in a bag at Costco (sold in a pack of two, buy three get one free), and bunged in the oven.
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| Poached egg with bechamel sauce and spinach |
Even my beautiful camera could not make this starter look appetising, and it would be very unladylike of me to tell you what I think it resembles! It was unseasoned, bland, unattractive, unremarkable, and I didn't finish it. That is a rare thing for me.
