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| - A couple surprises at this place.
I came here for MTL à Table not expecting much cause I didn't pick the place.
I entered the door and the first thing they did after checking our reservation was take our jackets.
~Fancy fancy!~
Maybe I haven't been to enough fancy restaurants but this was the first time I had a service like this. A check off my bucket list! (Now time to find a restaurant where they would start playing the violin).
MTL à Table is Montréal's Restaurant Week where you can try out three course menus from participating restaurants and leave without weeping wallets. Laloux had two choices for each course. Naturally, it becomes a competition on who will pick the better dish.
I picked roasted beets with wild grape gel and smoked pecans as my entrée, mostly because "chicken liver mousse" sounds a bit too avant garde for me. Well, should've been more adventurous because the internal organs of a chicken is actually pas mal. That hazelnut crumble was probably the thing that did the trick. My beets salad was light and refreshing, but a bit lack lustre compared to the chicken liver, especially when they busted out that panel of honeycomb, surprise surprise!! First course: 0 - 1.
For our main course, there was a choice between the duck leg and Arctic char filet. I was too lazy to hack meat off of a duck leg so I went with the Arctic char filet. Wrong choice again! I wasn't too into the arctic filet and the roasted celeriac was a bit too sour for my taste. The duck leg was packed with flavour though. Get the duck leg and tell your friends to get the meat off for you if you're too lazy like me. Second course: 0 - 2.
Finally dessert! Time to bust out my second stomach. I got the praline cake with pear sorbet. I tried the chocolate jar and although quite tasty, I felt it lacked the texture the praline cake provided. Finally a win for me. FInal score: 1 - 2.
tl;dr - Fancy atmosphere, great for dates, creative dishes, don't be lazy, be adventurous if you want to pick the better dish.
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