My review is a late post as my friends and I ate at this restaurant last 2013.
When I was a kid, I used to watch Heny Sison's baking show, A Taste of Life which teaches viewers how to bake cakes and other pastries. Heny Sison is one of the famous pastry chefs in our country much like my relative Reggie Aspiras.
Heny Sison had a co host in her show, Jackie Ang Po, a Fil-Chi pastry chef and is the owner of the patisserie in Tomas Morato, Fleur De Lys.
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| Soda iced tea 48Php. |
It was two of my friends' birthday that day and we decided to have dinner at Tomas Morato since one of them works at a hospital near the place.
Usually, the two would celebrate at Pizza Hut but decided to go different that time so we can try other restaurants plus we were craving for sweets.
There were four of us and decided we order a dish and a cake for each of us and everyone decided to get the soda iced tea (48Php) for our drinks.
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| Cream Dory with almond Butter |
One of us ordered Pan fried breaded cream dory. It came with rice and somewhat butter mixture on the side and slices of lime. The fish looked dry and a bit burnt on the sides but it tastes good and the butter was quite different. I forgot what kind of butter it was but it's not your ordinary butter. I think it's actually almond butter.
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| Beef Stroganoff |
I ordered beef stroganoff (165Php). The sauce was a mixture of red and white pasta sauce with shreds of beef and topped with parmesan cheese. It also came with a bread with some herbs in it. I found the serving to be quite small and the pasta quite dry.
The two other dishes that we ordered were from their breakfast dishes list. I can't remember the names but one is the Tapa (145PhP) and the other one I cannot remember. Both came with garlic rice but the garlic is actually just sprinkled on top of the white rice. I was expecting it to be mixed in the rice and then fried.
In my opinion, the servings were all small and it didn't look appetizing at all. It wasn't bad but the food doesn't taste great also. Food was just okay.
As for the ambiance, the place isn't cozy. Chairs were silver painted and the tables were wood. The place doesn't look that clean either in my opinion. We were also the only customers during that time and it was 6:00PM on a weekday.
Moving on, since our main goal was to actually eat dessert, we went to check the cakes and the cakes and pastries actually look beautiful. They have unique names such as Fountain of Youth and Pocket Garden. Our attention were all taken by the Pavlova Picasso cake because of its colors but none of us ordered it because it was just meringue with cream and fruits and we wanted cake.
You have a lot to choose from. they have Several cheesecakes, chocolate cakes and pies.
Again they have unique names for their cakes and pies such as Nuts About You because its a pie filled with nuts and the Cheesecake by Request because you can choose the topping that you want for the basic cheesecake that you'll be ordering.
We've decided to order Venus, Autumn Leaves, Cheesecake by Request and The Majestic.
I ordered Autumn Leaves and it's a basic chocolate cake and you can choose strawberry or caramel for the sauce. I chose strawberry because caramel might be too sweet. The cake was okay, nothing special and the strawberry sauce was too tart for me. I didn't enjoy it nor did my friends.
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| Autumn Leaves Strawberry Sauce 98Php |
One chose Cheesecake by Request with Blueberries on the side. The cake was dense and creamy and it was okay, not that delicious. Again, nothing special.
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| Cheesecake by Request Blueberry 108Php |
The third was The Majestic which for me tastes good because it wasn't too sweet. It's layers of mousse, cake and fudge covered in chocolate ganache. It's like everything that is chocolate that you'd want in a cake.
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| The Majestic 108Php |
The last one and the savior was Venus. It's a mini cake that tastes somewhat like a Tiramisu. It's sponge cake that is soaked in coffee with chocolate mousse and cream then there is a thin sheet of dark chocolate around it.
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| Venus 108Php |
If it weren't for the Venus cake and The Majestic cake, I'd say we didn't enjoy a single food there.
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| The cakes |
I'm not sure if it was just wrong timing but the whole experience eating there wasn't enjoyable but the servers were nice and the cakes were "just" okay. So everything was just an okay experience for me.
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| The facade. |
I also would like to say that the lighting there is also not good especially when taking pictures as you can see on the pictures that I posted. I really had a hard time taking good picture of the food especially the cakes. I think the lights were too yellow or they weren't just placed right that I had to use flash which is what I hate when taking pictures with my camera.
For those interested, I think some people will still enjoy the cakes there. I really cannot recommend the food so just try the cakes and you might enjoy it.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fleur-De-Lys/
Address: 305 Tomas Morato Ave., 1103 Quezon City, Philippines
