Franco-belge

Beautiful French restaurant in the heart of Camberwell Been here a few times and the food is consistently good. We enjoyed the scallops and foie gras for starters on recommendation of our waitress. Both were first class. For mains it was medium rare eye fillet with a bernaise sauce. Superb. Also ordered the lamb blackstrap. There was a good debate about which meat was most tender the eye fillet or the blackstrap. Both were first class. Some shoestring fries and greens on the side completes a perfect dinner. Enjoyed a couple of bottles of French Cabernet Franc. Service was excellent start to finish. Highly recommended.

had an outstanding dinner here couple of days ago. mussels au bleu was ridiculously delicious and we ended up mopping up the sauce with frites and bread. escargot not dissimilar to my favourite france-soir, good. scallops in leek butter full of flavour and a must order. foie gras and onion soup were both pretty good. tartare was good, but felt it needed a hit of spice a la FS. pork of the day was mind blowing. ribeye was ok. finished off with an outstanding tarte tatin.

After reading the reviews we decided this sounded like a great place to go, we were seated at 6.30, ordered our drinks then our meals. As there were only the two of us our meals came very quickly and one of the entrees we had ordered was prawn croquettes, wow - what a disappointment they were, over cooked, dry and very little filling, and hard to cut they tasted just like commercially manufactured ones (you would purchase from a supermarket) and for $19 were a disgrace. Our main meals then arrived also very quickly and my husband had the beef stew, meat was tender but the sauce was quite strong and overpowering which spoilt the meal. I had the mussels, they were nice but the tomato sauce that was added to the pot tasted like it was straight from a tin with no additional flavours, along with 2 large pieces of stalk that were floating in the base of the pot, not too sure where they had come from. We also had luke warm peas and lovely hot fries, the fries being the best dish of the whole meal. All in all quite disappointing as the reviews gave this place a good rap. The staff were very attentive but as I pointed out we felt very rushed and like it was time for us to leave, we were there a total of 45 minutes.

My wife and I are here from Sydney visiting our daughter, her partner and his family! They highly recommended Franco-Belge so we thought we’d give it a try. WOW....what a seriously amazing place. The food and wine list are awesome! Staff were outstanding and attentive, a huge thanks to Ange our waitress, helpful, informative and fun! Can’t wait to come back again! Thanks guys!