Le Bouchon

A double birthday celebration in the month of February. In the afternoon, I celebrated my sister's belated birthday at Melaka Street Restaurant, SS2. Forever the direction-less dolt, I forgot how to get there again, and made some rounds around SS2. Ordered quite a fair bit of spicy stuff. All the usual favourites and something else I had not tried, "Chicken in Foil". Seared chicken wrapped in foil and fragrant gravy make a very good appetite stimulant. Non-spicy and juicy. Recommended.

Later in the evening, SK celebrated her belated birthday at a French restaurant in Changkat Bukit Bintang, named Le Bouchon. Joined by Apollo, Jason Jr, Kenzon, Rich and KT. It's an expensive place and the only reason we dared to venture there was because I had a 50% discount voucher. Hehe. Anyway, before dinner, we grouped in front of Lot 10 and from out of nowhere, a group of dashing male models in tuxedos strutted up to the elevator outside. Very dashing, except for one who had a sequined scarf hanging in front of his crotch. High fashion perhaps? Entahlah. KT met us in front of the restaurant and we had a chance to glimpse her ex-love interest, Mr. Pink. This gor does not really approve, but what is a brother to say in matters of the heart? :P

Cam-whored a bit before we walked in and was greeted by Phillip Le Francois, the owner.

"Bonjour!"

"Reservation for Cheryl."

"Oh, the one with the voucher."


Ishhh... paiseh-nya the way he put it. Anyway, the waiter showed us to our table that was quite deep inside. When we arrived, only two other tables were occupied. One by a lone woman enjoying wine and another a family of three. Our arrival kinda shattered any exquisite dining experience they were having. Hahaha.

"Any wine?"

"Hell no."


The waiter promptly removed the wine glasses from our table, most probably muttering cheapskates under his breath. Must admit that I was quite baffled by the table setting. The salad fork, the dinner fork and the dessert fork. The layers of plates. The soup spoon. The waiter just removed whatever we did not need. We ordered six main courses which you can read at Jason Jr's food blog. I would just like to mention that it was my first time having foies gras and it was quite a great experience. The taste is quite special. Nutty, in my opinion. And having it seared gives it a really different and fragrant flavour altogether. The beef medallions with blue cheese sauce was also pleasing to the palatte. Really tender. The crispy salmon was also very aromatic as we immediately knew it when the other table ordered it. The aroma is unmistakably wonderful! The Jaylex Foundation joined us after dinner for post-dinner drinks and dessert.

It was a great night but towards the end, we had to cut it short as I had to rush to pick up my mum. So I kinda pulled a "2 fast 2 furious" on KT and Rich. Must have been shivering in their seats. Really sorry about that. :P. Great food and ambience, but the service kinda sucked towards the end (disappearing waiters and clanging of plates and cups). I won't be going back anytime soon, unless a sugar daddy brings me or I get another discount voucher...

Comments

Jason said…
Quite agree with the service at the end and their price tags (can simply make me faint if not because of the voucher!)
Little Prince said…
they brought you to the back, deep deep area?
eee. so insulting.
=.=
William said…
@Jason:
The price of extravagance.

@DanielH:
Come to think of it... but they didn't have large tables out front.
Will said…
heh heh heh I'll be your sugar daddy :P

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