Le Petit Soufflé: Your new all-day breakfast spot with Lolo and Lola
While breakfast is often synonymous to hearty comforting meals best enjoyed early in the morning, cravings for delectable breakfast food can strike at any point of the day. Unfortunately, all-day breakfast joints are few and far across the metro, with just a couple truly serving great platters.
For your indulgence, especially this Grandparents’ Day, French-Japanese restaurant Le Petit Soufflé introduced an array of all-day breakfast dishes for early birds and late risers alike.
Well-recognized for their innovative twists on comfort food classics and signature soufflés, the restaurant returns from the kitchen with an all-time brunch favorite, Eggs Benedict. Traditionally, Eggs Benedict features an English muffin split
open, with each side topped with a slice of Canadian bacon, a perfectly poached egg, and draped with a wallop of hollandaise sauce, a fine emulsion of egg yolks, butter and lemon.
Le Petit Souffle strays away from this classic Benedict recipe with its own take named Black Forest Ham Benedict — choice slices of Black Forest Ham carefully laid on toasted brioche buns, topped with poached eggs and hollandaise sauce. Another favorite is Smoked Salmon Benedict, which is draped with lush dillinfused hollandaise.
More adventurous foodies could opt for Japanese-inspired eggs Benedict twists such as the Unagi Benedict, which is topped with charred fresh unagi (eel) and bonito flakes. The dish makes for an appetizing amalgam of modern Japanese, French and American cuisines, a feat Le Petit Soufflé has impressive mastery over.
Meanwhile, the Pulled Chasyu Benedict serves sautéed chasyu (barbecued pork) and mushrooms and garnished with
furikake (Japanese seasoning) to further elevate the intricate flavors cohesively.
Chef Noel Mauricio shared: “For me, eggs Benedict is one of the most indulgent breakfast items one can get. Buttered and toasted bread, poached eggs, some smoked salmon, maybe some ham, and to top it off, rich hollandaise. It’s just a match made in heaven. In our case, we take it even further by serving them on buttered and toasted brioche buns instead of the standard English muffin. The FrenchJapanese variants also make for really good Benedicts that rival even the great classics.” Apart from these mouthwatering Eggs Benedict selections, the restaurant has one more wild-card dish spotlighting their all-day breakfast menu — the Breakfast of Champions.
Truly the meal for starving selfproclaimed breakfast lovers, marvel at the stack of maple-smoked thick-cut bacon, foie gras, red berry fruit compote, and a fried egg, all beautifully tucked into a buttered and toasted brioche bun that’s freshly baked daily.
“The real kicker is the simplest of the ingredients in the sandwich, particularly the red berry jam. The play of flavors of sweet and salty, of savory and sweet is, for me, what makes the dish the breakfast of champions. A good amount of hollandaise sauce is also spooned over the top of the bun and is served with maple syrup on the side. You’d be surprised as to how much the maple syrup and red berry jam bring the whole dish together,” said Noel.
Experience Le Petite Soufflé’s all-day breakfast menu for yourself at either SM Mega Fashion Hall (2F), open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. or Century City Mall (3F), from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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