Food was excellent at Le Select! You are greeted by a bar at the front of the restaurant. 2 galleys of dining areas follow and an expanded dining room is located in the middle and at the back. No matter where you are seated, you wil get the same refined and yet casual French bistro ambience.
I attended a work dinner function with over 100 colleagues and our event took up the entire restaurant for the evening. The hors- d'eourves that were passed around are not available on the nighly dinner menu but there were fantastic - grilled prawns on skewers and bison tartar. The tartar was smooth and full of flavour and it melted in my mouth. I had onion soup and joue de boeuf bouguignonne for dinner. My meal could have stopped after the soup. It was full of baguettes topped with a thick thick layer of Swiss cheese. I even scraped of the cheese from the side of the bowl at the end. My beef bouguignonne was exceptional also. The beef cheek was cooked to the right tenderness. The flavour was rich and it was a rather heavy dish. I could only finish half of it since I was stuffed from the hors-d'oeuvre and the close to meal-size soup.
It's a little out of the way and a trek for us Vancourites from our hotel on Front and Lower Simcoe in -10c weather with mixture of snow, slush and salt on the roads. However, it was worth it.