Macalister Mansion ~ Dining Room

I recently had the opportunity to visit Macalister Mansion's Dining Room restaurant. It's suppose to be Penang's fine dining French restaurant. Thus my very enthusiasm to find out how the food is, there.

They only serve dinner... hence the same of the restaurant.

I went there last month and it was for a work function

Here's what we had.

For starters, they served mini croissants with tuna and caviar, a dinner roll and treats.

 

 

Drinks was mango juice or was it orange juice... and plain water :)

 

The first course was the salad.. This was so interesting. Even the presentation of the dish was so elegant.
It was raw salmon, with raspberry jelly at the bottom shaped like a red moon. It came with the tossed salad encircled in a ring of cracker. I liked this very much!

 

 

 

Second course was the seafood soup. It was supposed to be ?seabass soup with crab...Before it reached our table, I could smell this as it was coming out of the kitchen. It certainly smelled like Hokkien Mee... that prawn-ny! This was the least favourite of mine. It came with croutons and in the top right corner of the soup bowl (pic), it's the crab meat in cream. 

This is the palate cleanser. Mango sorbet.

Next off is the Main Course. Cod fish!!

 This was a generously thick piece of cod fish! It was tasty and simply delicious! It was topped off with caviar.

As you can see, I clearly cleaned off my plate! hehehe

Then it was time for desserts...
An edible bowl made of chocolate, filled with ice-cream, caramel crisp, nuts, and edible flowers... You have to eat it with a bit of everything to taste the completeness of the dessert. I was blown away with the presentation :))

Lastly, they served petit four... comprising of the famour macaroon, a fruit tart, chocolate, and a biscuit with fruit. Simple and effective...

 

 

 

I was so so happy that night. The dinner was simply divine... hahaha...
 

La France in Penang

There's a new restaurant in town. I used to think that Penang had no restaurants offering French cuisine except in over-priced hotels. Even that was hard to come-by.

Recently, I've discovered this new place sitting in the heart of town at Jalan Irrawadi. It was previously only a foodstall at Northam Beach foodcourt. Now, it's upgraded into a real restaurant!

Nice cozy ambience

I tried the set Lunch which is on till 4pm, by the way
I chose to savour the chicken bolognaise. There was something different about this. They used fusilli pasta instead of spaghetti and i liked it! The taste & use of freash tomatoes just oozed out of this dish. Only downside was the thickness of the sauce. It was too watery. Perhaps the pasta wasn't drained properly before adding the sauce? or was it suppose to be like that? You be the judge :)


I had the chicken bolognaise!

The best was the dessert!! I love love love the dessert! It was crepe with ice-cream. The crepe was soft and sweet and oh, so yummy! It's definately a must-try!

 You can find them at:-

La France, Cafe and Restaurant - Penang

3b, Jalan Irrawadi, Georgetown,

10050 Penang - Malaysia

Phone: +60 012 4127355

Check-out their website here