"In my days as Australia 's most uncompromising professional restaurant critic, I would have failed Chez Cocoche.Comprehensively. Apart from a pleasant ambience, it has nothing that I can recommend. The service was contemptuous and slow. Dishes were long in coming and my steak tartare, the easiest...of our mains to prepare, failed to arrive at all until I reminded the waitress tdhat I had also ordered a main course. She had forgotten mine, she said, which had the trappings of a lie. My salmon gravlax was more or less smoked salmon with the faintest echo of gravlax flavours, of dill and the wonderful sweet salt melange that cures it. It wasn 't cured either gravlax has a deep almost maroon colour, the flesh dense. This wasn 't. My steak tartare was good, but i chose it because you can 't muck it up too much. a 'souris ' of lamb (shank) came from a huge beast and was far too tough. The meat should melt off the bone; it needed much more cooking. And foie gras was a little too salty also my alleged gravlax. Okay but not worthy of proper restaurant cooking were desserts a steak, and a veal kidney. We paid 200 euros for four and proobably couldn 't have spent it more poorly on food."
