Vancouver, BC
If you remember, I mentioned that W's old highschool classmate and another one of his friend/colleague partnered together to open up a restaurant. We finally had time to go try it out before the year ended. Located in Yaletown, Cache Bistro & Lounge serves Asian and French fusion cuisine.
The ambience inside was dark with some French soft jazz playing. They had a TV mounted inside and it was showing the Food Network so that was kind of weird, but hey, I didn't mind because I love watching Food Network!
I started with a Raspberry Lemonade to sip on while browsing through the menu. It was too sour and it had a lot of raspberry seeds ~_~
While we were deciding what to eat, the server brought us a plate of complimentary deep fried pickles to munch on! Way different from complimentary bread that I'm so used to, these were warm and crunchy but the fried exterior kept slipping off since the pickle inside was wet(? for lack of a better word).
After perusing through the small menu, we decided to order a few plates to share.
Foie gras creme brulee topped with tobiko
With frisee salad and white balsamic vinaigrette
Inside the egg shell was a creamy soft custard infused with foie gras. The bits of tobiko lent some crunchy texture. The salad was just a bunch of frisee leaves which looked like a nest to garnish the egg shell cup so it felt like I was eating garnish rather than a salad.
Smoked duck breast salad
White truffle vinaigrette, onion jam, wine-soaked raisins
The flavours were subtle in this dish. The duck was lightly smoked and I found the meat a little on the chewy side. I liked the wine-soaked raisins though! At first I didn't know what I was eating but I liked it so much that I just kept eating them off the plate!
White truffle infused mushroom medley risotto
Button, brown, portobello and oyster mushrooms
Oops, W started eating this before I could take a proper picture. I liked the variety of mushrooms in the risotto but honestly I don't really remember much about this dish.
BBQ baby back ribs
Hoisin BBQ sauce, mini cornbreads, butter poached corn
I found the ribs kind of ordinary. The BBQ sauce was on the sweeter side due to the addition of the Chinese hoisin sauce. I believe the ribs were par-boiled before grilling them because the meat was soft and it fell of the bones quite easily but the sauce wasn't very penetrated into the meat (hence why I found it ordinary). The mini cornbread were so cute and they reminded me of takoyaki!
Dessert tasting sampler
Crepe with matcha cream, Apple fritters with coconut ice-cream, Tiramisu
For dessert, W and I shared the dessert sampler. I liked the crepe the best because I like anything matcha haha! I think the coconut ice-cream was house-made and it was a nice contrast to the warm apple fritters. Still, I'm not a big fan of coconut so it alright to me. W liked this and the tiramisu more than me.
Cache now has a brunch menu as well. I recently tried their brunch offerings (post to be added soon) and I think I like it more than their dinner menu. However, for an ordinary working class girl like me, I don't think I can afford eating here more than once every few months :(
*Just an FYI, even though we knew the chef and owner, we paid for our own meal.
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