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| - Have been to the new BYOW location on Duluth about three times and I won't be going back.
Overall I'm not that impressed with the menu. I know that they have had their troubles at this location with getting their liquor license and they were forced to do a BYOW with a more "upscale" menu, but honestly, the food is just not worth the price. There are so many amazing BYOW restaurants in Montreal at similar price points and much better food. L'Gros Luxe should just stick to what they know.
On the main menu, I've tried:
Try #1
- "Carpaccio de Tomates" - ok but $16? It's literally a plate of tomatoes with a bit of cheese. Nothing special here.
- Tataki de Thon - this was good, but for $18 the portion is really small.
- Tacos de Boeuf and Tacos de Petoncles - again, good enough but really small portions.
The first time we went my husband and I split these and we were still starving. After spending $65 on food I would expect that I'm not leaving hungry.
Try #2 - after the first experience we decided to try to order something that sounded more substantial:
- Croquettes de Crabe 5/$18- these were pretty tasty. No complaints although my friend said his were still cold inside.
- Tartare de Thon $18 - I've had better. The flavours were just overall bland.
- Cotes de Boeuf Braisees $26 - these were good and filling
Overall just felt that the food was ok but really unrefined for the price.
Try #3 - decided to give the brunch a shot since we enjoyed the brunch as the St. Andre location. This experience was really not good. We ordered:
- Eggs Benedit: were supposed to be asparagus and roquette and we added the braised lamb for an extra $5 bringing the plate to $20. The lamb was the highlight of this meal. The eggs were under cooked with runny whites inside. The asparagus, which was the feature of the benedict had we not added the lamb, was overcooked and the whole plate came with one piece of asparagus cut in half. Had we not added the lamb the benedict would have been really underwhelming.
- Neptune Omelette. $16. The description for this dish is "Cheese omelette with crabe "hache", avocado, fresh dill and salt and pepper. I asked to have the dish without cheese. The omelette came to the table filled with melted cheese. I returned it to the server and was told that there was just "a bit of cheese in the crab mix". Sorry but I asked for no cheese - I don't want any cheese - not even "a bit of cheese" is ok - why would you even think this is acceptable!??! Why would the kitchen not tell you they can't do it without cheese!??!
The agreed to redo the omelette for me and had to "make the mix from scratch" because I wanted no cheese - ok fine, so I waited for my omelette. Here's what was in it: crab meat mixed with mayonnaise (where was this on the description??) and tomatoes (also not in the description). Avocado on top. Overall the mayo made this dish taste really odd and just didn't work at all. If you are going to add tomatoes, can you please include this in the menu description!?! I'm still in disbelief of the fiasco of this omelette.
The only upside was that our server was really nice and did give my coffee on the house for the inconvenience of the cheese mix up (I didn't complain the second time about the tomatoes - at that point I was just hungry and wanted to get out of there).
Overall I won't go back to this location. I will stick with Mile-End where the menu isn't trying to be something it's not and we've never had a bad experience.
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