Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Savoury and sweet crepes @ La Creperie

The previous review I wrote for this restaurant only did justice for the French, so for this second visit the review is in English.

I was excited when this place opened, because it serves Crepes, a thin crispy pancake with various topping (not be confused with american hotcakes) and savoury ones too.
After their sucessful branch in Shanghai, here it is in Hong Kong!
This type of French cuisine is more down to earth too, just simple pancakes and local items like moule frites rather than the classy French meals with numerous aperitifs and foie gras.

The restaurant was laid out with black wooden tables and chairs and lighthouse salt and pepper shakers.
It was like walking into a restaurant by the seaside.

The wall on one side had the thick grey bricks just like medieval Normande which is scenic medieval buldings and lush green grass.

As it just opened, there were not much people then on this visit, the staff there were nice and considerate, I was asked if the music was too loud and it was turned down.
Gradually the restaurant filled up with people, and the atititude of the waitors was still amazing, they even asked us if we minded people to sit by us, and also at the end, they thanked us for the tips too.
Never in a million years would honks to that!
It was also good that the waitors were French people, so were the customers.

Anyway back to the food.

Ordered two galettes, and two sweet crepes.

La plage: lemon cream, mint and Meringe.
creamy lemon sauce that tasted like lemon curd. I thought the Meringue would come as crushed pieces but it come as a small little meringue.

Apple and cinammon: la krompouz
This was really nice, thick caramel with cinammon and stewed apples.

La bosco: mixed seafood, parsley, white wine, cream
It was quite creamy, and there was a hint of spicyness in it, which I didnt expect for French food, but with the buckwheat pancake, it tasted nice.

les pierres noire: french camembert, cheese, smoked ham , mixed mushrooms, salads
This was my favourite, very cheesey. also nice gooey cheese wrapped inside, and the mushrooms were diced so finely.

To finish off the meal, tried the sweet cider. I never really order alchohol, but this one claimed to be very sweet and fruity.
When it came, it was served in two big bowls, the colour of the cider was bright golden brown orange. The taste was truly fruity, and at 2.5% I could not taste any alcohol which I can for other 2.5% alcohols.
Although I couldnt taste the alchohol, I could feel the effects of alchohol kicking it.
La plage
La plage
 
 
Grey bricks that resembles old normandie
Grey bricks that resembles old normandie
 
Sweet cider 2.5%
Sweet cider 2.5%
 
les pierres noire
les pierres noire
 
La Bosco
La Bosco
 
la krompouz
la krompouz

Je suis une vampire sanguinaire @ La Creperie

I havent been to La Creperie in ages so decided to give it a revisit because there were two new crepes on the menu, La boudinée and La Roquefort.

The lift that previously did not work was now working, and it was really nice with crushed sparkling glass pieces on the surface of the lift and fitted with mirrors.

It happened to be a thursday, the day they serve mussels and chips, it was tempting to get the mussels but I stuck to my original plan and ordered the crepes.

I chose to have La Roquefort served first because La boudinee was slighty sweet.

La boudinée: black pudding. stewed apple, salted caramel, sweet crepe
La Roquefort:minced beef, blue cheese sauce, tomato slices, salad
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La Roquefort:
On my previous visits, the crepes were much smaller and two were not quite enough for me, however they were much bigger this time.
The roquefort was filled with minced beef and cheese, the blue cheese sauce was very strong, it was slightly bitter.
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La boudinée:
This was made from black pudding, and I love black pudding.
In the crepe it was different to the british type where it contains bits of fat, barley. The black pudding here was more like a pate.
There were sweet stewed apples in it. Basically this crepe is the same as the La sextant but with black pudding!
Anyway my favourite crepe so far, because I am blood thirsty.
It is similar to the Flipino dish Pork Dinuguan with pork blood.
I think next time I will ask for the caramel to be put on the side, because the apples are already sweet.
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Nice cutlery with interesting signs
Maybe only vampire hunters can understand it?
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