Just because it is in a mall does not make it mall food and such is the case of Guy and Dodo Morali, the french restaurant located in the cours Mont-Royal. Guy Morali, executive chef and wife Dominique (Dodo), maître d'hotel, calmly produce a casual homestead to assuage the novice foodie and equally enchant the crusty veteran gastronome. You will often see Dodo flitting around the room, folding napkins, chatting up customers or affixing her festive toutous in discreet dining corners.
Apparently a covert for international celebrities, we felt among the jet set as we always do Chez Guy and Dodo where everyone receives the same warm reception. Whether you allow Sharon Stone's choice of choucroute de poissons or Celine Dion's selection for the filet d'agneau en croute bias your preference is entirely up to the diner (in retrospect, perhaps the only reason my husband ordered beef instead of lamb). To start, a Merlot Christian Moueix 2003 Bordeaux to ease the senses.
As an appetizer, the petits feuilletés aux escargots au Saint-Émilion, was marginally altered from our last order of snails at G D's, if only in aesthetics. A respective dish of star ingredient-topped miniature puff pastry encircling a smallish bowl of simply sliced mushroom and escargot in wine sauce. A sample of Guy's classic style to whet the appetite.
Just as my lips became sufficiently numb from wine and heated conversation our mains were delivered in a plume of gourmet steam. My husband's decision materialized into the butter tender beef Onglet with French shallots, a French cut of beef with a delectably potent flavour. He thought to have misunderstood the server when he promised to return with a side of fries but sure enough moments later crisp taters emerged from the kitchen.
Just because it is in a mall does not make it mall food and such is the case of Guy and Dodo Morali, the french restaurant located in the cours Mont-Royal.
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