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Asiatique Restaurant Review

1767 Bardstown Rd. (Speed Ave.) Send to Phone
LouisvilleKY 40205
502-451-2749 | Make Restaurant Reservations | Menu
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The sleek techno décor sets the mood for chef Peng Looi's contemporary Pacific Rim fare. Asiatique Restaurant is one of our 2012 | Top 10 Louisville Food Rating Restaurants |

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Dinner nightly, Brunch Sun.

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Dining room at Asiatique, Louisville, KYThis multi-level space may make patrons feel as though they're dining in an M. C. Escher drawing, but carefully crafted cocktails and bites such as wok-sautéed five-spice shrimp and a goat cheese and crab meat spring roll will ease you into the ultra modern surroundings. Main dishes are the roasted red trout with pistachio dust, green papaya and pineapple-coconut sauce, and grilled teriyaki quail with rosemary-soy vegetables, honey and Four Roses bourbon sauce. For Sunday brunch, traditionalists will find omelets with an array of filling choices, buttermilk and pistachio pancakes with coconut milk-infused syrup and fresh berries, or a Vietnamese crêpe stuffed with tiger prawns and ham, and topped with a sweet chili jam. Desserts continue to weave Asian and Western themes, as with a banana lumpia (a kind of spring roll) with green tea and cardamom powder, and Sarawak (Malaysian) peppercorn caramel. As adventurous as the food is, the wine list, sadly, doesn't keep faith with the chef's creativity. But that's not to say you can't find something decent to drink.

User Ratings & Reviews for Asiatique
Average rating    3
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A fusion restaurant that misses the mark
by docc1 on 03/07/2010
 
This is a beautiful restaurant with an incredibly attentive staff. It came highly recommended by friends. We ordered the 5-course degustation menu.
The first course was a cold duck salad. It was perfect, with an incredible variety of tastes and textures, and a wonderful hoisin vinaigrette. The next course, panko-encrusted diver scallops and tiger prawns were beautifully presented with a tasty aioli. The seafood was well-cooked, but nothing particularly remarkable.
The next two courses, however, were disasters. There was a plate with a pulled-beef stew and a pork rib. Again, a nice presentation, but the food was so salty that it was almost inedible and the sauce for the stew lacked subtlety. The next plate (which looked almost exactly like the preceding one) contained a lamb chop and a lamb stew in a cabernet reduction. Again, the salt content of the plate was too much. The sauce was overpowering, although the meat was well-cooked.
The dessert :) was magnificent to look at, but there wasn't anything memorable taste-wise.
 
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