Went for a romantic diner at Laloux.
The setting is simple and elegant. The service was good but not quite up to par for what I think Laloux is trying to achieve.
My diner partner had the beet entree and I had the shrimp verrine. They were both very good and offered very creative flavour mixes. The verrine was however accompanied by Jerusalem artichoke chips that were oily and not that tasty.
I had the goat cheese raviolis with a mushroom sauce. It was very tasty but so rich it may be a better offering as an entree. The result was that I had trouble finishing my plate despite the portion being rather small.
My partner had the red wine braised beef. It was nothing exceptional as the flavours were rather plain. Again his portion was on the small side.
The dessert list is very nice and given I've followed the pastry chef's career on her blog for the last 4 years I was anxious to try her offerings.
Hence we had 3 desserts for the two of us. One being the pot de crème (chocolate cream) which was very good. The other 2 desserts were elaborate compositions. One with an apple theme the other with citrus. All the components of these desserts were exquisite taken separately. Some of them however (like the ice creams) didn't mix well with the other parts of the desserts.
At the end of our meal the waitress brought us some mini sablés cookies to finish. Those just blew me away. They were the best cookies I ever had. I have to go on the pastry chef's blog (http://endlessbanquet.blogspot.com/) to pester her for the recipe :).
We enjoyed our evening but wouldn't choose Laloux again given the extensive choice of restaurants we have yet to try in this city.