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Great poutine place with really nice staff. Good guilty pleasure snack. Fries have a really homemade taste and feel and the sauce is a step above norm…
Tyler P.
La Belle Patate
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AMAZING!! My favourite poutine in town,hands down.I'm Chinese and this is where I had my very first poutine and it's delicious,I love that the gravy h…
Catherine Lyu
La Belle Patate
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This place is awesome. Been coming here about once a month for 4 years and 90% of the time it's perfect. Tonight they nailed it!! Had the galvaude. Wa…
Jeff Steingold
La Belle Patate
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10 Reviews on “La Belle Patate”
I loved this place, as they would make authentic poutine! Coming from Montreal I was so happy that someone would make such good poutine just like the ones back east. But yesterday I was very disappointed as the fries taste nothing but like the fry oil hadn’t been changed in a while, and the gravy was nothing like it used to be. Honestly I don’t think I would ever go back!
Go there. I whole heartedly believe this poutine is so good that it can bring the dead back to life. Hand cut fries with a really good gravy and huge chunks of cheese pairs well with the all dressed steamie so you get a bit of crisp acidity in the sauerkraut to break up the poutine grease. So good any time of day, but should be part of everyone’s hangover prescription.
Has gone downhill. Which is a shame.. When i first went here I was in love with the autentic poutine and vegetarian gravy options. I was there yesterday for a pick up order of two poutines. and the fries were very over cooked but still soggy from the gravy. Which would be ok but the the fry oil that tasted like it hadnt been changed in weeks. Not to mention the guy who served me was wearing black tape as a bandair and no gloves at all. I wont be getting fries here again..
Nomnomnom. Lovely that its so close to my Home. I understand that it looks like a greasy spoon inside…and the parking is questionable…as for where to eat the amazing poutine…I choose the park across the street. Unless its miserable outside we’ll just take it home. The staff are amazing and we have had a couple issues but we’ve been there so much….we can’t all be perfect. Its delicious and glorious.
This place definitely has the potential to be excellent but fell short last night. We ordered pick up and we’re told 15-20 minutes but it was over 45 minutes before the food was ready. And the poutines would have been perfect if it weren’t for the fries. Either the oil hasn’t been changed or they were very badly overcooked. I’d try them again if they cooked the fries a bit better and had a better idea of how long they’ll take to cook the food.
Very Good Poutine for a Very Dirty Restaurant. I’ve been coming here for years, and have always had good to great experiences. I know I can ‘do it better’ at home, but I’m oh so lazy after slaving away in a hot kitchen myself all day, so it’s nice to eat out and treat yourself once in a while. This is one of those places that’ll keep you coming back, but not for a few weeks to a month. No one in their right mind should be eating this type of food more than once every few weeks, it’s just so damn unhealthy! But what keeps me coming back are the pleasant (though sometimes crass) staff, the always pleasant and accommodating owner, and the good to great food they have made for me in the past.Now the bad…nothing that hasn’t already been said by some of the other reviewers on here, the place is just very dingy and sometimes downright unsanitary. Being in the industry, I am obsessed with cleanliness and order in my kitchen, and have passed that down to every sous chef or even dishwasher who has worked under me. However, when you take out the ‘hierarchy’ of a restaurant and you have ‘owners’ or ‘workers’ sometimes the tendencies, or rather, shortcomings of key individuals are passed down and shared among staff. In this case, this place could use a total makeover and facelift. They should completely renovate the kitchen and improve the layout, and eliminate a lot of the clutter and ‘flare’ that has become a bit tired and worn out looking.One last thing, wait times are always misquoted! If they say 15 mins on a Friday/Saturday night, assume that means 30+
Experienced harassment. Crappy disrespectful staff, who are local to esquimalt and if they don’t like you will screw up your order. I never knew any of these people personally, but because of heresy based on gossip from one of their juvenile girlfriends, whom I worked with, I never got decent service and they went out of their way to screw up my orders. They basically ostracize certain people from their establishment and that is gross.