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

Caramel Ice cream Crepes at Canele

YESTERDAY WAS FRIDAY!!! Love fridays. =) they mean the start of the weekend OH YEAH! so to cellebrate (see what I did there.. celle-abrate), the after dinner dessert treat was French Crepes at Canele Patisserie pronounced in thick, French, i-love-desserts kinda accent =) at Raffles City.

Flower of the sea Crepe

The delectable treat begins with a sweet crepe base, hot and crispy on the surface and soft, chewy and sweet in the middle, sandwiching a thick warm chocolate hazelnut filling, like Nutella, but thicker, possibly from being heated. The texture of the crepe is thick, yet light, and oozes with the hazelnut filling, drizzled with a caramel sauce that gives a burnt toffee flavor, topped with 'Creme de Chantilly' if i remember right from the menu, which is a light whipped cream. 

It is decorated with large fins of caramelised filo, like that of a sailboat, sailing your tastebuds into a sweet treat! the caramelised filo is crisp, like the crumbly pastry of an apple strudel, yet is extremely brittle from being candied by the caramel. It's very thin, light, crispy and the sweetness of that pastry flake mixes with the sugary goodness of the glaze. oh yes, and this hot crepe is topped with chocolate praline icecream, that was very chocolaty and smooth, and tasted bittersweet, like dark chocolate.

What takes the  cake crepe, is that the varying types of sweetness subtly contrast each other to create a myriad of sweetness, each type of 'sweet' emphasizing the other. 

Overall the dessert isin't heavy at all, and wasen't too sweet although the description in the menu has a galore of chocolate and caramel. Even after dinner! On the contrary, it was rather light, and satisfied my sweet tooth =) Delicieux! 

Random Facts : 'Fleur de Sel' means 'flower of the ocean' and is a gourmet, kosher, hand harvested French salt while 'Flor de la Mar' (flower of the sea) was a Portuguese ship that sailed around the Indian Ocean till it sank "(>_<)

MY EVIL FACE BEFORE I KILL IT WITH MY KNIFE! *teehee

The ambience is pretty modern, with maroons and whites! And the bustling crowd constantly rushing past, time seems to stand still in this cafe in the middle, decorated with lush cushions, comfy after walking around all evening!

The portion's good for two to share. slightly pricey! but good decadence for two! at about $15++ But the service was a little slow and it was a lil' difficult to get their attention because they had a full house, and a long waitlist too. They also close at 10pm so be sure to go earlier or you'll be shooed away!!