[Overview]
Restaurant Name:
What Crêpe?
http://whatcrepe.com/
Cuisine Type: European
Price Level: $$
$$$
Quantity: Medium
Date of Visit: Saturday. July 6th, 2013
Time of Visit: Dinner time
Address:
241 East Liberty, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Number: (734) 369-3207
Hours of Operation: Mon (11am-8pm); Tues-Thurs (11am-9pm); Fri (11am-11pm); Sat (9am-11pm); Sun (11am-4pm)
Others:
☞Full bar service
Recommend Items:
Salty dishes:
Signature Ribeye Truffle,
Garlic Parmesan Crusted Smoked Salmon,
Mushroom Madness;
Sweet dishes:
PJ's Choice,
Nutty Monkey
I know that I haven't updated for a while. :( There were too many things going on and some of them made me feel really down. There were also some great news. But all in all, everything is fine now. I am gonna be, still, very busy until next week. Then I'll be able to relax for a little few weeks before school get started again. This time I am going to share with you guys about my dining experiences at
What Crêpe?. I've been here twice. First time was within the first week when they opened and the second time was at the beginning of July. I ordered totally different dishes but this post will mainly focus on the latest experience.
Me and Mr. M visited this place on a Saturday for early dinner. It was already a little crowded. We would prefer window seats however there wasn't any. We ended up sitting at the high top tables. It was alright, but I want to complain that the table is way too small. We were so afraid that we were gonna drop the glass water bottle. The table barely fit two main entrees and pretty much no place for anything. This made both of us feel unease while dining. What Crêpe has decent decoration. The ambiance is great and the environment is pretty clean. Beautiful chandeliers and seats. I enjoyed dining at this kind of restaurants. It's perfect for date, with a few friends, and a big group (of course reservations are necessary for bigger groups). There is also a nice bar located right by the entrance. I've never tried it but it looks great.
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| View from inside |
The restaurant has everything made in crepes, both salty and sweet dishes. Crepe-lover would probably fall in love with this place. There are lots of choices and you can also create your own crepe as you wish. We ordered two salty dishes and shared a sweet dish as dessert. We had the
Signature Ribeye Truffle,
Garlic Parmesan Crusted Smoked Salmon, and the
PJ's Choice. Everything tasted great. The Signature Ribeye Truffle comes with pan-seared ribeye steak, spinach, wild mushrooms, swiss, and signature truffle zip. We both really liked it. The ribeye steak is delicious and combined perfectly with all the other ingredients. If I want to be a little bit picky about this dish, I would say that it's a little bit too oily. I think it would be healthier if there is less oil. The Garlic Parmesan Crusted Smoked Salmon comes with garlic Parmesan smoked salmon, capers, red onion, avocado, tomatoes, house made dijon dill sour cream. I think I like this one a little bit more because it feels healthier for me. However, Mr. M loved the ribeye truffle crepe more. A little weird because we weren't sure why the salmon crepe didn't come wrapped like every other salty dishes I've had at this restaurant. But it did taste great. Salmon is fresh. At first I didn't know what caper is and I thought they were beans. I am sorry but I did not like beans at all. The capers tasted great and fit well with the salmon crepe. The portions are good and filling.
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| Signature Ribeye Truffle |
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| Garlic Parmesan Crusted Smoked Salmon |
We shared the
PJ's Choice as dessert and it comes with fresh strawberries, orange slices, raspberries, blackberries, nutella, and vanilla ice cream. We also added a scoop of soy vanilla ice cream on top of it because it looks interesting and we've never tried. We also really enjoyed this dessert. The fruits are not artificial and the selections are great. Vanilla ice cream is just standard, not particularly special. Soy vanilla ice cream tasted interesting and healthy. It was $3 for a scoop, within the acceptable range. Nutella is perfect. Everyone loves nutella (haha I know not everyone but lots of people I believe)!
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| PJ's Choice (with extra scoop of soy vanilla ice cream) |
During my first visit, me and a friend of mine ordered the
Mushroom Madness and the
Nutty Monkey for dessert. They were both really delicious as well. Mushroom Madness is a perfect fit for mushroom lovers. It blends with swiss cheese and it's just amazing. Nutty Monkey is also really good. I don't eat too much pecans in general but it just goes great with every other ingredients in Nutty Monkey. Honestly so far I've never had any bad dishes at What Crêpe so I definitely would recommend this place. Price-wise, it's not that cheap. Most of the dishes are mostly between $13-$15. It's still acceptable. I would return to this place.
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| Mushroom Madness |
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| Nutty Monkey |
Almost forgot to talk about the service... my first experience was better than the second one. The waitress served as during my first visit was really attentive and nice. But it might be because at that point they were just newly opened. During my second visit, the waiter was not doing that great of a job. As what I've mentioned, the tables are really small. After he served us two salty dishes, he brought our dessert to the table in just a short while. He then realized that we might want to have it later. I honestly thought it was obvious to know and he shouldn't have brought it to our table... I am not exactly sure if they cooked a new one for us or not since they finished making the sweet dish so early. I hope that they do. But in general I really would recommend this restaurant and I believe that it deserves a visit, especially to crepe-lovers!
Bon appéitit!! ^_^
P.S. Check out Groupons, they sometimes have great deals for this restaurant!
Thanks for reading! -Mira*
