Tikim5: Cheese anyone? L'entrecote, Fort

L'entrecote, such a fancy name for a good ol' French-Swiss cuisine. The word 'entrecote' is actually french in origin, which means a certain cut or portion of the anatomy of a beef, lamb or pork. Ribeye to be exact; if you wanna be anal about it. The restaurant is located in the area of Burgos Circle, which is filled with fancy restaurants and all. Initial glance at the restaurant from the outside gives a slight impression that this place is one of your typical French restaurant with a touch of Swiss in it. The establishment doesn't really dazzle you or anything but it's far from being one of those rip-off Euro-cuisines, and also it doesn't scream that it is an exquisite fine dining restaurant. However, be prepared to burn out some cash for some of their finer dishes. So on to the entre-cote..

 Fine dining at the L'entrecote

First part of the menu we ordered was a little special from the establishment, a little offer that is only available on Thursdays, good marketing idea from the owner on this one. There's a handful of food to choose from for the special Thursday treat. For us we picked the Swiss cheese raclette being the cheese lovers that we are. The other interesting tidbit in there was the swiss cheese fondue, but price was a bit too much for us, so maybe on our next visit then, mark it on a Thursday then. The cheese from the raclette was actually really delish, coupled with a few potatoes and some vegetables really a treat for all you cheese lovers. Serving size was a bit unsatisfactory though, but glad the taste did make up for it.

 Swiss cheese raclette: Bits of pieces

Second on the menu was the Pissaladiere Traditional, it's actually a pizza with anchovies black olives with smothered onion and garlic. These are some good pizza here, different from your typical fastfood type pizza. It was good food but nothing really special about this dish besides its fancy name.

 Pissaladiere Traditional: A different kind of pizza

Now for the main course, of course we had to have an entrecote, presenting you with Menu Entrecote, one of their signature dishes. US steak cooked medium rare (our choice ;-)) mixed with green salad toped with secret herb butter sauce with unlimited frites (aka fries). Yes you heard it right, unlimited fries for all you potato addicts out there. They serve all of their steak dishes with unlimited fries, another good gimik this restaurant has. The steak was actually something to look forward to, that special sauce they had was actually good and it was pleasant to see that the staff was kind enough to offer us some more additional sauce free of charge (we didn't knew then, wish we knew about it earlier) as we were dipping them fries in the sauce and eating them like hungry sharks.

 The main course with UNLIMITED FRIES! ^.^

 Steak is served and will be eaten hot!

Right after we finish the entre, we were so full that we didn't even ordered dessert anymore. Yes blame it on the fries and that special sauce, for a second there I'm starting to doubt if that gimik of unlimited fries was actually any good. But nonetheless the fries were something to look forward to in our next visit.

Overall, the food was nice, but it's not something that can make you jump out of your seat or something that can give you a tongue orgasm (for more subtle people). The concept is nothing new but I like the idea of having Swiss and French cuisine, but not a Fusion of the two. But in the end we have our stomach full and the owner was even kind enough to come out and greet us on our way out. 

Verdict: I give this a 3.5/5.

L’entrecote
Unit A Bellagio 2, Burgos Circle
Forbestown, Bonifacio Global City
Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines
Tel. No.: (+632) 8564858(+632) 8564858

This article is written by Evan Yeung.