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| - Laloux has Long been one of my favourite restaurants in Montreal. It has, as other reviewers mentioned, changed hands several times over the course of the years, but through most of these changes it has remained an excellent French restaurant. My husband, son, and I chose to celebrate my milestone birthday (coyly I will not say which one) at Laloux last night. Apparently there is a new chef, which we did not know.
Dinner was a big disappointment. For one thing, although we had called in advance to make sure there would be some vegetarian choices, there was just one choice among the mains on the menu and it was a pasta dish. In the past Laloux has been creative in offering other vegetarian main dishes and we asked what other choices might be offered. The waiter suggested spinach risotto and I opted for that. I'll return to the risotto shortly.
As an overall comment, the dishes were small. We are not big eaters, but we were surprised at the small portions in most of the dishes. My husband and son started with soup and it was not copious but it was OK. I started with a cauliflower appetizer and was looking forward to it because I had just eaten some delicious cauliflower a few days ago at a party. Better if the person who prepared the cauliflower for the party could have made my appetizer last night. The cauliflower was undercooked, and there were many hard oat crackers stuck around here and there on the plate. I'll attach a photo of this dish.
Although there were bread plates on the table at each place, we were not given any bread, not even after the soup had been put on the table. We asked twice before bread was brought to the table. Amazingly, the bread was stale.
When the main dishes were served I actually thought that what was put in front of me must be a salad that the restaurant was offering since I had not ordered a salad. Upon closer inspection I realized that it was the spinach risotto. Unfortunately I did not take a picture of this. Essentially it was a small green boule in a bowl, and the portions in the main dishes that my son and husband had ordered were also small. They actually ended up eating the stale bread because they were still hungry after the main dish and dessert. As for the quality of my risotto, it was uninspired and uninspiring. It was very green but there's not much else one can say about it.
The dessert menu was also uninspiring, but all of us had plenty of room for dessert and each found something to order. My son chose one that included chocolate ice cream, and it was the ice cream that he really wanted. When the desserts were served, his had no ice cream. He pointed this out to the waiter, who said that the kitchen was out of chocolate ice cream.
I am very disappointed with Laloux after last night, and I doubt that I will ever go there again unless I hear that it is once again as good as it used to be.
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