Review of Brasserie Balzac – by Staffan Ö.
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Then you have opened a new restaurant with very nice decor (considering how the venue looked like before). We were the night it opened. Has tested many, many restaurants in town and around the world. This evening we got chansade and in all cases the place to test the new place at 6.30 pm Friday night. However, we just sit around if we could finish before 20:00. The first thing we thought about was the music that was tremendously strong for a restaurant with a bar at the time. I measured the volume up to about 85 to 90 db in my little mobile app (poor staff). We ordered a bottle of red and a Rib and a fillet of beef. I am not a mushroom lover, so I asked if I could change champinjonragun to something else, such as French fries. It was possible to arrange. The food comes in at ok time. Entrecôten is good and quite hefty. Served with a green salad and fries and a seasoned herb butter (which tastes a bit like Café de Paris). Fillet of beef, on the other hand, is very boring. I think it's the worst steak I have eaten. It was thin and probably utbankad. Cooked too stressful and tasted more like a vakumpackad tenderloin from long gone or a bad Sirloin steak from the supermarket. It was sad quite easily. We got French fries to both rights (because I opted out of the sponge). It was the usual dull variant which I guess are purchased complete from Matsäljarna. At this type of restaurant would of course love to have French fries they made on their own and no one dozen to be heated. In addition, resting my beef tenderloin on a bed of mushrooms that look like ordinary burkchampinjoner as been heated with soya to get some dark color (Yes, my partner provsmakade dom). But I got my mushrooms that I had opted out. In addition, it was a foie gras (which I think they called seared foie gras on the menu) on top of meat scraps. I really don't know exactly what it was, but it tasted not as something in the vicinity of foie gras I've eaten before. It was more like something that is mixed up with a lot of other things and tasted more pith than foie gras. When the waiter asked what we thought, so we answered that Entrecôten was good, but the fillet of beef was very dull. "Oh, sorry", it received in reply. Nah, it was night and stressed staff. But it was not ok. It was not good. It wasn't as good as it should be at a restaurant. I had made better food at home ... and I'm not a chef. I usually put it as required. That, if I go out and eat it should simply taste better than when I do it myself. But this evening it had failed. Probably because the raw material was not top class. Perhaps we did as best as we could in the kitchen, but it was not something I would give even 3 stars. Hope you have better you before I show up again. If you want to choose authentic French food, then there's La Facille a few blocks away that hold much higher class or the French on the other side of Sveavägen. And good meat can be bought around the corner on Lennart & Brother.