The Little Snail

Was a big disapointment.

I have been here twice before, the first time was years and years ago, and i only really remember the company, not the food. At the most recent time was Kate and my first date back in January 2005 - so I'm sure everything tasted great that time! Yesterday Sandrine and I went for lunch to catch up as we haven't seen much of each other since she commenced work. The lunch menu is 3 course prix fixe, and below are our dishes.

Seared Scallops served with Anchovies Pan Braised & Caramelized Tomato and Capsicum Cake. This was not very good at all. The scallops were smaller than the size of a 10 cent piece, there were no anchoies, and the capsicum cake was missing too. The scallops were over cooked - badly, luckily the salad had some flavour.

Snails (one dozen) in the shell, garlic butter. Sandrines entree was nicer - as you would expect, but they were quite small.



Crispy Atlantic salmon served with lime, prawns & mango salad. Here, again, a key ingrediant was missing - the prawns! The fish was nice, but again i felt over cooked and the mango did not seem fresh - amazing seeing cheap fresh mango is so abundant at the moment.
Confit Duck with sweet potato, baby spinach & Orange dressing. The duck and the dressing were good. The vegetables were rubbish, all over cooked and tasted like they had been sitting out waiting to be served since last night. I can only imagine the souz chef is on holidays and left the dishpig to do all of the sides...

We both had Lemon Meringue for desert, it was ok. Nice and light on top, and the base was very rich - too rich for me but sandy liked it (although apparently not as good as her mum makes)hahaha, a fine dining experience my ass... the wine cooler was plastic, and all cracked - actually broken all the way through and sticky taped! The white wine he suggested was a Clean Skin! And still $29 a bottle... it was nice, but what a rip...
Sandrine finished with a Parisian coffee, which has Grand Marnier in it... was strong and goooood. Maybe the highlight of lunch!