Location: Taipei, Les Sens French Cuisine
Travel note summary: This is probably my last food review before the Lunar New Year. I'm taking tomorrow off to go back to Taichung for the holidays—it's been a while since I last went home. @@ Anyway, my grad school classmate Zhengda came up to Taipei from Kaohsiung for an exam, and we met up for dinner afterward. We hadn't seen each other since Panda's wedding! That evening, we went to the new Sogo building near Zhongxiao Fuxing. Even though it was only around 5 or 6 p.m., the Din Tai Fung branch upstairs already had a long line. Not wanting to wait, we headed to a higher floor and ended up choosing the well-known French restaurant Les Sens. I'd heard recommendations from friends about its Tianmu flagship, and I figured the branch wouldn't be too different. But honestly, the main courses that night were a bit disappointing. The dining style here is a minimum charge per person for the salad bar (I think around NT$400+), with main courses as add-ons (prices vary, starting around NT$200–300). So, per person, it averaged about NT$700–800. I ordered roasted pork knuckle, and Zhengda got steak. The salad bar selection wasn't huge, but many of t…
