French food at Saveur

5 Purvis street

somewhere on the small streets near Cityhall/Bugis.

no reservations

Went to Saveur for dinner with a couple of friends the other day and were told to wait half an hour. i'm quite sure we waited for more than an hour! but we were busy chatting so waiting was alright. but yes, be prepared to wait! 

Saveur serves cheap french food! pretty good for it's price and very yummy. 

from a small hawker stall, it's now a really big restaurant!

checkout the menu below!

So I had the angel hair pasta, which was very tightly wound in a round, with tiger prawns and lumpfish caviar. Very tastey, the caviar flavoured the tiger prawns well, while the pasta wasen't too oily, and very savoury and flavourful. salty! which hit the spot just right because i was hungry =) the portion isin't too big, but i guess for the price of $6.90 I could've ordered two servings! haha! 

Then my friend had the Mesclun salad with lemon vinaigratte and crispy duck, which smelled really nice! but looked palatte cleansing!

Beef bourguignon with root vegetables and mixed greens and potato gratin, and my friend had an extra side of basmati rice.

confit of duck with orange segments and saute shittake

pan fried monk fish with bacon bits and leek fondue

Chicken roulade stuffed with foie gras, and basmati rice

DESSERTS!

the portions were kinda small (whatya expect, it's french!) but really pretty, really colorful and kind of interesting!

Textures of citrus

the odd name suggests you're supposed to feel it? but yes, it was a blood orange jelly with oranges and grapefruit and syrups. soury. tangy.

Next was Chocolate and Hazelnuts, a chocolate mousse decorated with dried berries and some nuts. The thick, sweet, chocolatey mousse is thick, yet fluffy, and the berries are crunchy and soft, the sourness complementing the heavyness of the chocolate.

Then was one of the specials for the night, 

Apple pie. 

which was some chopped up bits of apple that tasted like caramel, decorated with apple bits and pie crust crumbs, with tea jellies, rounds of  apple sorbet, and a fluffy-poof of yoghurt that was salty, but very fluffy, like salty air! definitely a peculiar mix =)

Another special, was an assortment of tarts with rasberry sorbet icecream sitting on chocolate cookie crumbs. you were supposed to eat towar the sorbet, starting with the lemon custard tart, then the coconut tart with gula melaka oozing out (this was my favourite) and lastly, a dark chocolate tart, with white meringue drops to 'cleanse' your palatte in between, and ending of with the sour sorbet. very yummy. but very tiny! "-_- *greedy

So yeah, the bill came out to about 25 per pax, after sharing a bajillion desserts. there were two servings of tarts. The ambience isin't somewhere for a hot date, and it's kind of cramped, and gets abit claustrophobic. the waiters take awhile, but the wait for the food isin't too bad, and the noisy ambience means you can chat comfortably with your friends, and not worry about breaking the silence! =D