Meg E.
Yelp
I have been to this restaurant about 5x since my birthday last year. I love the unique to Indy French menu, the ambiance, the outdoor patio, and how in the winter time, you can sit in the covered patio with heaters and blankets - so quaint.
Parking is along the road with paid meters, there is no parking lot. Highly recommend making a reservation online ahead of time, especially in the evenings and around holidays.
My favorite items here are the duck confit, with cherry reduction, truffle Parmesan duck fat fries with their homemade dipping sauces, and the mussels. They offer mixed drinks but for the price point, the cups are extremely small. They have a rotating dessert menu, which brought me in last night. For one day only, there was a soufflé with crème anglaise, an item on my food bucket list. Per IG, one of the chefs had just returned from learning to make these in Paris. I also saw the pistachio petite chateau with strawberry crunch.
We were told the soufflé would take 15 minutes so we ordered dessert when we placed our dinner order. The sourdough bread with salty fresh butter to start is so very good. I will say getting more water was difficult. We had to ask the hostess more than once to switch out the jar of water at our table. Dinner was flavorful; mussels were not very hot but still tasty. Once we asked about our dessert, we waited over 30 minutes. I asked if we could have the other dessert sooner but that did not happen. The soufflé came piping hot, definitely fresh baked, but with a very thick layer of powdered sugar. After getting rid of that, and letting it cool down, it was great. Not too sweet, soft in the center, with perfect creme for topping each bite (our waitress offered to pour it over for us but I politely declined, I wanted to pour with each bite like their IG video suggested). My fiancé didn't care for it, he said it was "way too eggy" for him. Darn, more for me! Oh and BTW, we were never told the soufflé price, but learned at the end it was $12. Not bad at all, I was expecting higher.
We agreed the pistachio gateau was not good...at all. It was unbelievably salty, with a berry mixture in the middle that had flavors we could not make out. It had a very small cake ring around the bottom but it was so wet with something, it was disintegrating. It claimed to come with strawberry crunch, which I love, but I did not find that anywhere. I normally love anything pistachio so this was quite sad. The strawberry slices on the side were good but that was it, very disappointing for $15. We were not checked on with desert or I would have sent it back. When it came time to pay, I asked the waitress if it was supposed to be very salty. She said she would ask. When we saw we didn't eat more than two bites of it, she said she would remember us for a free dessert next time.
Overall, I'd recommend trying this place out. It's not an everyday kind of spot, more of a special occasion every once in a great while spot, but still fun to have in Indy.