March 25th, 2011
Finer Dining
We love fine dining but always end up asking ourselves at the end of the meal: “How can it be so expensive when I only ate one thing?”
Le Filet, run by the team behind Le Club Chasse et Pêche, offers elevated cuisine in a long list of tapas-sized plates allowing diners to share in the discovery of their innovative dishes.
We started with a refreshingly crisp salad of jicama, fennel, citrus and fresh mint ($10) along with “tastes-like-summer” scallops with avocado, orange and beet ($15). After devouring the savoury wagyu beef tataki with ginger and sesame ($16) we dug into a rich Dungeness crab risotto ($19) that melted onto our plate and in our mouth. But our lick-the-plate-clean favourite of the evening was the sweet squash-filled ravioli with amaretti and almonds ($14).
Bring on the indulgence.
Le Filet, 219 Mont-Royal Ave. W., Montreal, 514-360-6060, www.lefilet.ca
