Restaurant #92 - L'ydille - June 14th

We went to eat at L'ydille.

It is known as a snooty French restaurant in Dieppe. However, they are closing their doors on June 22nd and are planning on re-opening early August as a French Bistro. What that entails, I'm not quite sure, but I'm guessing that they will probably have a more varied menu and things might be a little cheaper.

This was going to be our #100 restaurant, going to a snooty one to finish off the challenge, but as they are changing their menu, we decided to go earlier as to enjoy the restaurant as it's been know for the past 7 years.

First few things about the restaurant, you need a reservation as they can only seat 35 people. Also, as far as the menu goes, they have 2 menus, either a Table d'Hôte or a Degustation Menu. The Table d'Hôte gives you a couple choices, while the Degustation Menu gives you all the options. If you want the Degustation Menu, the whole table has to take it. We were told that it had to be that way because it makes serving all the dishes easier on the Chef and the Waitress.

We ended up all taking the Table d'Hôte.

From memory, they started us off with a little Salmon tart probably the size of a loonie. I remember people saying it was good. After that, there was a soup course, then our appetizer (I got the Poutine - Acadian style, not Quebec), main (Steak in vanilla sauce), dessert (I got the chocolate 3 ways, but the fruit dessert tasted a lot better) and a final little thumb-sized cup of rice pudding.

Now, I'm leaving out all the little extras that the waitress was talking about, such as the Liang-Liang infused something that was in a couple parts of our meal as well as the vanilla coming from Guadeloupe and all those little details that make a place snotty.

Overall impressions from everyone was that the food was mostly good (some people enjoyed it more than others), a lot of us found the food to not be very flavourful, (comparing it to Little Louie's here) and most of us were in agreement that we preferred Little Louie's. The thing that got me was that I had looked at their website and I seemed to remember the same menu. For diversity's sake, I do hope that they change up the menu or that there is some sort of Summer/Winter menu, because after having that once, I didn't find the food amazing enough that I'd be willing to go back and enjoy the exact same meal (but I did at other restaurants).

I'm not sure how much of the fact that we've been hearing about L'ydille for years and how it was the top of French food for the Moncton area, blah, blah blah.

I just want to finish up that I actually did really enjoy the food that I got and they prepare their meal exquisitely, I think I was just expecting that little bit extra for something that I have been hearing such good things about for years.