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Bonne Année 2010!
Welcome to our website and to the new year.
12 – 23 March, lunch only, Tuesday
to Friday.
Melbourne Food & Wine Festival - Coldstream Hills
Restaurant Express Koots Salle a Manger is one of the 70 great
restaurants in Melbourne that are participating in this feature
event.
Coldstream Hills Restaurant Express brightens up your lunch break
for another year. Treat yourself to the lunch special: two courses,
a glass of Victorian wine and coffee or tea for $35.00
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9 November 1999 - 9 November 2009
Koots Salle à Manger turns 10... and obtains its
7th consecutive chef's hat in the Age Good Food Guide
2010.
Accolades aside, we could not have done it without your support, so
we would like to say a sincere "thank you" to all our
customers.
You can subscribe to our web site for our newsletter of coming events by clicking on
register to the left of your screen.
 
With lush new renovations and
interior design, Koots has been re-launched as Koots Salle à Manger in 2009. Conveying an ambience of
understated sophistication that befits the house "modern French" style, expect comfortable new seating and a
new menu along with the new
look.
Owner and chef Patrice
Repellin is celebrating ten years at the helm. There's a new
bar menu that's been added to the line up
offering a relaxed and friendly place for anything from a drink
with a light snack to a full à la carte experience.
For lunch, we continue to
bring you our "Prix Fixe" $30 two-course special. Outside, our
courtyard beckons on sunny days and warm nights for stylish al
fresco dining. Inside, there's a chateau-style open fireplace for
when there's a chill in the air.
While some things have
changed, comfortable hospitality and confident style remain the
focus. And of course, our food. Here, the menu achieves balance
between old-world techniques and fine new-world
innovation.
With its warm charm and
understated style, this is a place that buzzes with local flavour:
an open invitation to relax, feel good and indulge one’s inner
gourmand.
We look forward to your
visit.
À
bientôt!
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OPEN TUESDAY TO FRIDAY FOR LUNCH, and
TUESDAY TO SATURDAY FOR DINNER.
Quotes from recent press about Koots:
"Koots has undergone something of a minor revolution...The
place certainly feels like it has a new energy". Michael Harden,
Australian Gourmet Traveller, November 2009 (read the full
review here)
"Elegant rather than rustic, and unafraid to take the occasional
risk, [Patrice Repellin's] menu is aware of fashion...Yet he's
astute enough to know not to push the barrow too far..."
The Age Good Food Guide
2010 (read
the full review here)
(Awarded one chef's hat in 2004,2005,2006,2007,2008, 2009,
and again in 2010)
Larissa Dubecki, food critic for The Age's Epicure section,
reviews Koots Salle à Manger
with a score of 15/20. See the full
review of 5 May 2009.
“….Koots is the quintessence of the chef's own restaurant.
Focused, tightly run and with enough Gallic insouciance in the air
to suggest something special, it's home to the consistent
excellence of Patrice Repellin's modern French food.”
The Age Good Food Guide 2008.
“Repellin exercises a light hand while simultaneously dismissing
gimickry...
His trump card comes with a faultless crème brûlée... Confident,
apparently effortless service and a romantic undercover courtyard
make Koots the perfect neighbourhood bistro.."
The Age Good Food Guide
2008 (to
read the whole review, click here)
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