Invited Review - Louis Cafe @ Argyll Road, Penang

Today, I am going to share another food review with my reader. At the meantime, I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to Lingzie and Mdm. Teoh for inviting us (food floggers) for attending this food review. lol

Louis Cafe

Location: 161-C Argyll Road, 10050, Georgetown, Penang.

Tel: 04 - 2287729

Mdm Teoh - 012-4701666

Business Hours: 11am -11pm

Louis Cafe is opening on 22 December 2008. So not many people know about this place yet. The environment is very quiet and cosy. It is a very nice place to catch up with friends, family members or even ideal for business meetings. As Louis Cafe also offer free WiFi. :D

Entrance of Louis Cafe

Interior settings of Louis Cafe

Menu of Louis Cafe

Basically Louis Cafe offers Fusion and Asian Cuisine.

Louis Cafe Set Lunch @ RM18.90++

Which includes :

1. Soup of the day

2. Choice of Main Course

(Example: Fish and Chips, Chicken Cutlet and Spaghetti Carbonara)

3. Choice of Beverage:

Hot/Cold (Coffee/Tea), Ice Lemon/Peach Tea

4. Free Ice-cream available

Louis Cafe Set Dinner @ RM26.90++

Which includes:

1. Soup of the day

2. Appetizer of the day

3. Choice of main course

(Example: Mushroom Chicken Chop, Black Pepper Fish fillet and Spaghetti Arrabiata)

4. Choice of Beverages

(Choice of soft drinks/ fresh fruit juice)

5. Free ice-cream available

***Please note that all the set lunch and dinner menu changes daily***

Promotion of Louis Cafe and Valentine Menu

Currently, Louis Cafe is running 10% discount promotion until March 2009. And since Valentine's Day is few days away, they also offer Valentine Menu (RM99/Couple) as following:

Appetizer: Classic 60s Prawn Cocktail

Starter: Seasonal Creme of Pumpkin

Icy Lemon Sorbet

Choices of main course: Scottish Salmon Slab/Australian Beef Tenderloin

Dessert: I Love you

Our food reviews start with appetizers:

Classic Caesar Salad ~ RM18

This salad consists of crispy Romance lettuce with chef's Caesar dressing garnished with smoked salmon, grated Parmesan cheese and herbs croutons.

Our House Rules organic salad ~ RM15

This salad contains of organic fresh mixed garden salad served with choice of dressing.

If you opt for vegetables salad, I would recommend that you try this but I found that the salad dressing is too sour for my liking. :D

Scallops Salad ~ RM20

It is basically organic fresh garden green & seared sea scallop accompanied with delicious apple salsa.

I would recommend that you try their scallops salad as I like it very much. lol

Next, we were served with 5 different types of soup:

From top left clockwise: Cream of Tomato ~ RM9, Cauliflower Soup~ RM9, Broccoli Soup~ RM9, Italian's Wild Mushroom Soup ~ RM10 and Fresh Pumpkin Soup ~ RM9.

Close up of the 5 type of soups.

Bread and Butter

Cream of Tomato

Fresh Pumpkin Soup

Creamy soup topped with oven roasted almond flakes.

Italianese Wild mushroom Soup

Freshly Shitake mushroom, button mushroom and abalone mushroom.

Cauliflower Soup

Next, the main menu:

Sirloin Steak

*Australia chilled air flown Beef *

It is grilled until perfection and served with Red Wine Sauce.
Beef Tenderloin ~ RM38

*Australia Chilled Air Flown Beef*

It is grill until perfection and served with peppercorn sauce.

Grilled Lamb Chop with Brown Mushroom Sauce ~ RM22

Grilled Lamb Chop with Peppercorn Sauce ~ RM22

Baked stuffed chicken ~ RM20
The chicken thigh is baked and stuffed with cheese sausage and covers with brown mushroom sauce.

I find the chicken is very tender and the cheese sausage tastes very nice.

Chicken Tortilla ~ RM15.90

If you like Tortilla, I would like to recommend you to try this. The tortilla is so thin and yet tastes so great. It is best to eat it while it is hot. However, this is not in the menu for the time being. May be you can check with the management for the availability before you place your order.

Pan Seared Salmon Steak with Dijon Sauce ~ RM30

Red Snapper with Cream of Tomato Pulp ~ RM25

Fish Gordon Bleu - RM25

Pacific Dory fish fillet stuffed with ham and cheese crumbled then deep fried until golden brown and served with tartar sauce.

If you like fish gordon bleu, I would recommend you to try this.

Spaghetti Arrabiata ~ RM16

Spaghetti with chilly, slices bacon and assorted wild mushroom in a spicy tomato pulp sauce.

Fettucine Carbonara - RM16

Slices bacon, ham, onion fragrance garlic assorted wild mushroom sauteed in butter enrinched with cream and chopped herbs and grated parmesan cheese.

Vegetarian Cutlet ~ RM15.90

Mdm. Teoh told us that they try and do this vegetarian cutlet cater for their Vegetarian customers. I found that the vegetarian cutlet tasted nice. However, if you don't like potatoes, then this will not be your choice. lol And inside the vegetarian cutlet consists of corn, mashed potatoes, brocolli, carrot, onion............

Next, came to the desserts..........

When I look through the menu, I was wondering why the desserts are mainly chinese style desserts. And most of their foods are western style. lol Then I was told that they are actually the wholesaler of the bird nests, white fungus............. And since they have all the ingredients, they decide to offer some chinese style desserts in their restaurant.

At the moment, they only offer 3 different types of chinese desserts and they are:

White fungus with Gingko Nuts ~ RM5

And also Bird Nests ~ RM45/ bowl and herbal snow jelly ~ RM 10/bowl.

We (Gill Gill and I) have the opportunity to try their white fungus with gingko nuts while waiting for the others to arrive. And the dessert tastes nice as it is not too sweet.

Next.......

Ice-cream

I prefer the yam ice-cream. If you like yam...... then you will definitely love the yam ice-cream. lol Apart from the above two types of ice-cream, they also have chocolate ice-cream, coffee............

Apart from the Ala Carte Menu, they also offer snack and Asian Cuisine menu which offer:

Special Crispy Chicken Wings, Deep Fried Sotong Ball, Potatoes Wedges, Deep Fried Calamari, Seafood Singapore Bee Hoon, Seafood Fried Rice, Thai Tom Yam Bee Hoon Soup, Seafood Hokkien Char, Seafood Fried Hor Fun, Seafood Ramen and BBQ Pork Ramen.
If you would like to arrange gathering or functions, please contact Mdm. Teoh. I am sure she will be delightful to help you with the foods and beverage selection.

The Staff, Chef and Mdm. Teoh

Other attended food floggers:
Lingzie from Lingzie’s Tummy Treats

CK Lam from What2seeonline.com
Criz Lai from Criz Bon Appetite
Allen Ooi from Yummy Station
Carrie from Cariso Delicacies Corner
Huat Koay from PenangTuaPui
Bee from Buzzing with Food
Gill & Jason from Gourmet Garden
Steven Goh from Steven Goh's Great Food, Budget Travel and Unique Lifestyle

Rebecca from The Nomad Gourmand

Mr. Lee of Kwong Wah Yit Poh

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Food Point of Interest

Map Location of Louis Cafe ( Opposite Hotel Mingood):

*Please note - Louis Cafe charge 5% service tax*