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| - La Pégase has a surprisingly small, modest entryway which expands inside to include terrace dining out the back. Essentially it's the converted ground floor of a house on quiet Gilford Street.
My date and I chose terrace seating, and I'm glad we did because the noise level inside was very high. However, our seating for two was sandwiched in between two other, larger tables with extremely loud groups seated at them, so ultimately there was no escape from the *very* loud atmosphere. Don't dine here if you're looking for any sort of romantic experience. I don't even remember if there was any music playing or not, because my date and I could barely hear each other over the shouting around us.
There goes one star.
The food itself:
You choose table â hote, or from a bigger menu option. Each option comes with coffee, but who drinks coffee at 9pm? Table â hote includes a soup or salad, the main meal, and coffee - no entrée (appetizer) or dessert. If you want those included, you choose the other option. My partner and I chose table â hote and to split an entrée à la carte.
He got soup, I got salad. The soup was super watered down, plain tomato soup that seemed to essentially just come out of a can. My salad was seriously nothing more than a handful of the mixed greens you buy in a plastic box at the grocery store, straight up. They didn't even bother to remove the slimy bits of spinach that had gone off.
Oh, you also get a little basket of bread with some chicken liver pâté that tastes like catfood with Dijon. Meow!
Nothing remarkable so far, folks!
However, I will openly declare that the main dish was SUPERB. Filet mignon that had a hint of caramel (my partner's choice) and was cooked to perfection, and yellow fish (in French, it actually translates to goldfish - hehe) which was crispy on the outside and also perfectly cooked on the inside. This is where the three stars come in for this review. Oh, we ordered a dessert as well - a meille feuille (I can never spell or pronounce this name properly) with strawberries which was also divine.
The staff were really great, and even brought us English menus which made life a little easier. Very friendly people. The price is a bit up there but nothing outrageous! It's also BYOB, so that's nice.
If the start of the meal was a bit more... caring... and the noise wasn't so out of control, this would have been a five star review. Alas.
PS - I got reservations just a few hours before, on the same day. It's not that hard.
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