On the Counter

Hey all, went to see my last French Film Festival earlier, Le Petit Nicolas. I'll review it and the others later. But had lunch at KITCHENETTE, an ISMAYA group restaurant. It offers a kitchen feel, complete with stuff you can found in a kitchen: spices, counter tops with blender, meat grinder, coffee grinder, fruits, eggs, all that jazz. BEWARE, it's always full and I had to be put on the waiting list for some time, considering it had just opened and offers a great concept.

Its specialty is galette, it's like crepes but with a different dough, I think.

the galette, ARNAUD. It's like a big pancake, with beef patty, eggs, onion and cheese. But it's not very savory, not many spices in the dough. After searching through Wiki, galette is made from buckwheat while crepes made from wheat. I have no idea what the difference is.

this is my meal, a baked crepelle. Basically chicken and mushroom wrapped in the galette dough with the most glorious cheese. waaaaaaa. Nice tomato sauce, a fair amount of mushrooms and chickens and can't forget the cheese.

a French onion soup. Somehow it's very sour. It has that tinggling feeling. Not my type.

I love the menu. It is glued to a cardboard; very environmently friendly. I like how the classified the menu. There are Grandma Stella, Uncle Chin, Grandpa Luigi, Uncle Raul; feels like a family recipe.

the kitchen! oh la la!

I like the place I sat on earlier, it's on the outer side of the restaurant so I did some people watching, just like in France, with French music, too. I'm not so sure about the price because it can be very pricey. The flow of the food wasn't good either. The galette took forever to be seved. I don't know; maybe it's because the place was full. But a foreign guy--whom job I don't know, maybe the manager?--came and delivered the food and he said 'You have been waiting long; it's on me'. I thought he was joking but no he wasn't. It wasn't on the bill! Thank you, Mister foreign guy who runs the restaurant!

-hana.