Le Metropolitain

Love this place. Great food, and they’ve had a refurbished recently, so one of the areas that used to be predominantly for eating is now a stylish wine and cocktail lounge. Always a safe bet for top food and service with a smile!

Visited on numerous occasions food always of a high quality and staff friendly. I would highly recommend.

A newish restaurant situated in the recently uncovered Somerset House in Halifax. Decorated in an Art Deco style, its certainly the most stylish place to eat in Halifax.
For our first visit we started off with a gin and tonic and were asked of our choice of four excellent gins, once of which was Hendrick’s, my girlfriend’s favourite. A good start! I had the lightly battered tempura of frogs legs with lemon and garlic aioli. Absolutely delicious, my first tasting of frog’s legs and they were far nicer than I could ever have imagined. The freshly made aioli was a super accompaniment. My other half had the seafood provencal; razor clams, palourdes and mussels in a rich tomato sauce with fresh herbs and saffron rouille which she said was very nice. Both came with fresh warm crusty bread.
For the main course my partner had lamb with vegetables which came a nice pink. I had the lobster and crayfish risotto with confit lemon and petit herbs. This started nice, but there was very little lobster in it and was very salty. Bit disappointing after the superb starter.
For desert we both ordered cinnamon vanilla pot praline (crispy nut candy) with home made shortbread. This was back up to the standard of the started and was excellent. The balance of cinnamon and vanilla was absolutely perfect, one or the other could have easily overwhelmed the dish but it was spot on. The crispy candy was a golden colour which looked great and gave the dish a real air of decadence. My partner ordered a Brandy Alexander to finish and we saw the bar tender looking his cocktail recipe book for how to make it but when it came it was nice! Overall it was most enjoyable. The dishes were just the right portions, we were full without being overfaced and the service was good. It was getting quite busy as we left at about 1:30 p.m. I will certainly go again soon.