Whenever my cousin is in town he always wants to eat french food. Probably because there aren’t that many good French restaurants in Perth, or any restaurants at all besides Malaysian / Singaporean places.

The other night we headed to La Brasserie on Crown Street in Darlinghurst, this classy Parisian restaurant with real French waiters. I loved their accent, but it did make it a bit hard to understand what was in the days specials. I started off with the French Onion soup – boy is it thick. It comes served with a thick layer of bread and cheese on top and when you get into it there’s a ton of caramelised onion inside. I probably wouldn’t class it as soup though, it’s more gravy than soup. Even though it’s really rich and intense, it’s actually really delicious but I could only get through half of it, thankfully my cousin loves soup so he polished it off.

For mains I went with the safe option of Steak and French fries. Yes, that’s right real French fries – which look exactly like Maccas chips. Yumo!

The steak was covered in this rich red wine sauce with a lump of flavour infused butter on top. As you can see from the picture, that yellow lump on my steak, it isn’t a slab of corn cob – that’s butter! Really nice butter!

All in all the food was very nice. A bit too rich for my liking, but you really do enjoy that first bite.