Eat Out London!La Petite Maison
La Petite Maison offers an inspired yet simple and delicious interpretation of French Mediterranean and Niçoise cuisine
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La Petite Maison - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens
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No way: with the price of a bent review starting around £10k (according to one leading critic), costs would quickly become excessive, No, the reason is that La Petite Maison has form.
The original La Petite Maison is in glamorous Nice, so the critic can impress with his or her worldly-wiseness, (or, failing that, regurgitate the bit in the press release about how Elton John goes there).
Classic provençale dishes, largely in a trendy small-plate format, but with a few bigger dishes for those who want them (or, as one is instructed, for sharing).
But that's really beside the point.
With this location, this backer, these reviews and the hype machine in full swing this place is going to be where the action is for the next few months.
La Petite Maison restaurant review 2007 July London | French ...
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Similarly crab and lobster salad was overwhelmed with herb flavour, which perhaps was wise given the ordinary shellfish (12/20).
Onion tart was better, nicely made with a soft base and plenty of onion flavour (14/20).
Served with the chicken were decent French beans, fair chips and rather watery dauphinoise (12/20).
Desserts were a decent tarte tatin of apple with not enough caramelisation, and a pleasant orange ice cream (13/20).
This seems a lot for what is essentially decent bistro food.
La Petite Maison - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens
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No way: with the price of a bent review starting around £10k (according to one leading critic), costs would quickly become excessive, No, the reason is that La Petite Maison has form.
The original La Petite Maison is in glamorous Nice, so the critic can impress with his or her worldly-wiseness, (or, failing that, regurgitate the bit in the press release about how Elton John goes there).
Classic provençale dishes, largely in a trendy small-plate format, but with a few bigger dishes for those who want them (or, as one is instructed, for sharing).
But that's really beside the point.
With this location, this backer, these reviews and the hype machine in full swing this place is going to be where the action is for the next few months.
La Petite Maison | Mayfair, Belgravia | Restaurant Reviews | Hot ...
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La Petite Maison 54 Brooks Mews, London W1 (020 7495 4774) Meal for two, including wine and service, £110 With certain restaurants you need to know more than what they serve and whether it's any good.
First, the poulet de noir au foie gras, to give the dish its full menu name, is a whole chicken and it takes at least an hour to roast one of those properly, and you don't want to be twiddling your thumbs between starter and main course.
Oh yes, and the L'Ami Louis chicken - a stunning poulet de Bresse of crisp skin and flavourful meat, which Simon Hopkinson cites as the inspiration for the title dish in his book Roast Chicken and Other Stories - costs around £65.
I have now told you the most important thing about La Petite Maison - what you must order - but I suppose I should fill you in on the other stuff.
La Petite Maison has been brought to London by the team behind the modern Japanese restaurants Roka and Zuma, though there is, thank God, no attempt to bring the flavours of Japan to the culinary traditions of Provence.
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It’s a franchise of a renowned establishment in Nice, but unlike nearly all restaurants in France it doesn’t offer set menus to soften its prices (not shown on the otherwise-jaunty website, so they can come as a shock).
A properly grand wine list again focuses on southern France, with probably London’s best choice of quality rosés.