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Amazing traditional French food, it was quite a different experience to all the modern French restaurants in Melbourne. Make sure you try the snails!!…
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I use to live in Syndal and regularly visited this really cute French Restaurant. The food is always delcious and service very attentive . This place …
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A hidden treasure this place. My first attempt at French cuisine .. loved the ambience, the soft french music and the food was delicious. The wine and…
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8 Reviews on “Le Gaulois”
I use to live in Syndal and regularly visited this really cute French Restaurant. The food is always delcious and service very attentive . This place is truly a hidden gem hidden amongst a busy main road. Very hard to miss but very worth finding
A hidden treasure this place. My first attempt at French cuisine .. loved the ambience, the soft french music and the food was delicious. The wine and Snails in garlic sauce a must must try . Friendly staff and very reasonable prices .. we had a salmon and lamb chops for main
Been to this lovely restaurant a few times now and it seems to gets better with every visit. Tried new things each time on the menu and all excellent dishes. Warm cosy atmosphere with very well knowledged staff about what there serving. Would definitely recommend coming to those lovely French restaurant
Visited this restaurant tonight. Very disappointing to be honest. The food was not authentic and felt like a cheap Chinese restaurant trying to be French.
We shared the liver pate and prawn cocktail for entree. The pate was very cold and seemed similar to Coles quality, very hard pressed, not light and fluffy as it should have been, and it was served with toasted bread, not even tiny toasts. Disappointing. The prawn cocktail was interesting, it came with a side of iceberg lettuce, onion, cucumber, tomato and apple?
The prawns were ok but the sauce was definitely out of a bottle. All in all, it was not quality at all.
The mains were disappointing also. The barramundi wasn’t fresh and had been frozen, the prawn cutlets were simply prawns in a heavy, sweet sauce again not nice.
The wine was well overpriced for what it was.
Service was abrupt, not friendly or jovial as you would expect from a French restaurant and was distinctly lacking in culture.
All in all it felt as though this restaurant had seen better days.
Sadly, although it is local, We will not be returning in a hurry.
On short notice my daughter and I were able to garner a table on Saturday night. While the boys were off at a ‘Big Bash’ this was the way petite she and I would rather spend our evening.
Unfortunately the weather was not conducive to tasting much of what looked great on the menu. It was swelteringly hot, so in spite of the temptation to the special Chicken and Celery Soup and most of the meat dishes, it was just. not. the. day.
Still, there was so seafood…..
A half dozen fresh Tasmanian oysters (Huitres Naturelles) with ‘American Hot Sauce’ and lemon. The oysters were either shucked to order, or not opened very long ago, as they still had all of their briny goodness, and were so plump and shiny, as if they’d just been pulled from the sea. It was the perfect start with our sparkling water, which we downed all night! The sauce was more of a Marie Rose sauce, as it was a mayo based option, my daughter and I both preferred the spanking fresh oysters just with the lemon in the end. Nearly forgot. we did grab a serve of garlic bread, two pieces of lightly toasted baguette, to munch as we settled i
n, it was fine.
I then selected a classic – and I could care less how out of fashion; (King) Prawn Cocktail (though our waiter wasn’t sure what sort of prawns they were). A plate, rather than a cocktail glass of peeled prawns, with their heads still attached. They were perfectly cooked, medium, rather than large prawns, a moist and a delicious quintet. A chunk of iceberg lettuce was rather unceremoniously plopped on the plate with two little wedges of cucumber and the same of tomato – the same ingredients as partnered the oysters earlier, though some red onion slices too. Lo and behold the marie rose sauce was the same as for the oysters too.
My daughter chose Smoked Salmon and Prawn. This came with the same additions, iceberg chunk, cucumber, tomato, though it included capers. This too had the marie rose sauce. Again, the main ingredients were fine quality.
The best choice from the mains this hot day was the ‘Fillet De Poisson Meuniere’ a barramundi fillet with a lemon and parsley sauce. We were given fish knives which was a novelty for my daughter – in this case, they were more for looks, rather than purpose as we had fillets of fish, no bones, no skin, but still, Miss was pleased. The fish, once again, was perfect, just cooked as hoped. The sauce was actually both lemon-zesty and light, not a thick and rich sauce. Strangely, while we were given the fish on plates so hot the waiter had to wear mitts, it had those same salad ingredients, iceberg, tomato and cucumber pieces. As we were given a side of veg, I really think here, the salad was superfluous. Such a hot plate could potentially overcook a delicate fish too, it hadn’t though. We both enjoyed the vegetables, the broccoli was simply steamed, the oddly shaped carrots, perhaps needed a minute or so more, but I adored the scalloped potatoes and the ‘ratatouille’- that wasn’t, but it’s the closest we can think of in flavour, we could have had a serve of that and nothing else, it was great.
OK. Dessert. Hmm, I chose the Creme Brulee. Now it may be that my personal preference varies from tradition, but I like a cold, cold, silky custard below the freshly torched glassy-sugar top. I got the top, beautifully burnished with that perfect almost-bitter edge, but the custard was warm. That’s a let down, it was smooth for sure, but I was looking forward to the wonderful cold contrast. As I said, that may just be my preference. Unfortunately there was an ice cream issue for me, that I don’t think was personal preference. I did mention to the staff that the ‘vanilla’ ice cream just wasn’t. Something was wrong with it. Not just that it wasn’t to my taste, it tasted ‘wrong’. While my server apologised to me, he also said they’d had no complaints. K, fair enough, some people don’t complain, I wondered if the chef had tasted it though. I don’t complain willy nilly, and we were the first guests for the evening having dessert. I hope they took note of others not finishing their ice cream, as I am confident that would be the case. Oh well.
My daughter loved her cherries. They were gently poached in kirsch, and served with a side of dark and rich chocolate sauce – that made miss very happy.
I’d like to go back again when much more of the menu would be an option – you know, if temps drop below 30C would do! Staff are friendly, when this little place is half-full of larger tables it’s rather raucous in a friendly way, probably not the ‘intimate’ dinner a couple might wish then though! This is casual French food, with linen table cloths and napkins. I’d love to see a little more difference in some of the starters, but overall it was a pleasing meal, it would seem only best-quality proteins need apply, and that’s a good thing.
First time customer. Service was superb and was well complimented buy all the dishes we got during the night. Will definitely come back again and if you want some lovely French food I highly recommend coming here
My friend and I went to la Gaulois restaurant last night for dinner and came away very disappointed. As soon as we entered the restaurant it was extremely noisy and cramped. Although the service and food was reasonable there was a major problem, I had to lean in to make conversation to each other. And there was one table making a hell of a lot noise who should have been told to quieten down to be considerate to other customers. in the end we hurried through our dessert and coffee and left. i will not recommend this restaurant to anyone. we were very disappointed.