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| - This place is part of the family of restaurants owned by Claude Pelltier (Le Club Chasse et Peche and Le Serpent). A lot of expectations for Le Filet as we have dined at the other two and were blown away.
However, maybe it's my asian background, but Le Filet, which serves mostly asian inspired dishes, just didn't live up to the hype for us.
The ambiance is the trendiest and most welcoming of the three, with an outdoor terrace overlooking Parc Jeanne-Mance.
The service, while quite good, didn't feel personal.
Very short drink menu but every elaborate french heavy wine list. We asked our waiter for a recommendation and granted wine taste is personal, we were disappointed by the one she had picked for us.
We started with the oysters, the miso gratin ones and the ones topped with jalapeƱos.
The miso gratin's were delicious, our favorite item of the night.
We continued on with the Waygu beef, the crispy halibut, the linguini with clams and the piglet duo.
Everything was just alright, good, but lacking in that wow factor.
The beef was not was tender as expected, the halibut had a nice crispy outer layer but lacked seasoning, the linguini was sold as with squid ink but only served with dried pieces of it and not completely black as we had hoped for and finally the pig although good was simply crispy skin pig you could find at any good Chinese restaurant for a fraction of the price.
We total bill was well over 250$ with tax and tip and we left feeling unsatisfied with out experience.
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