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Asiatique

1767 Bardstown Rd. (Speed Ave.) Send to Phone
LouisvilleKY 40205
502-451-2749 | Make Restaurant Reservations
Eastern spices and cooking techniques flavor Western meats and vegetables served in stylish surroundings.

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Dining room at Asiatique, Louisville, KYThe multiple, staircase-connected levels of this contemporary Pacific Rim restaurant may make you feel as though you've stumbled into an M.C. Escher drawing. But once you settle into a sofa in the downstairs lounge or a chair at a table overlooking treetops, memories of your climb will be erased by one of Asiatique’s signature drinks. Specialties such as lychee, ginger or Mandarin orange martinis are shaken and poured tableside. The knowledgeable staff will also help you choose a wine (or gourmet tea) to pair with such offerings as panko-crusted Chilean sea bass with tumeric-infused shiitake-scallion cream sauce, lemon grass-scented Angus medallions, or toasted garlic and rosemary lamb chops with mango and thyme purée. If you are in a grazing mood, assemble dinner from the starters list, which includes Indochine grilled Angus beef kebabs; a pan-seared crab cake; and roasted duck, pistachios and goat cheese on a bed of mixed greens with hoisin sauce and balsamic vinaigrette. Dessert reflects the East-meets-West theme, too, with assorted flavors of crème brûlée served in saké cups and ice creams such as green tea and banana. Chef Peng Looi offers several five-course dégustation menus including seafood, vegetarian and wine-paired versions.

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.
 
Reviews 1 - 1 of 11
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