When the server set the quail on fire, Stonestown Galleria officially ceased to be just “some mall.”
Butterflied and briefly ablaze, that $13 plate of California’s state bird wasn’t even the hallmark of a meal at Le Soleil, Stonestown’s splashy new French-Vietnamese restaurant. That would be the pho risotto, a $28 portion of fall-off-the-bone ribs over congee.
And when it comes to elevated eating at “Stones,” as the teens call the mall, Le Soleil is hardly an anomaly. It’s next to the nigiri-covered conveyor belts at Kura Revolving Sushi Bar and across the corridor from Supreme Dumpling, which regularly commands a two-hour wait, and kitty-corner to build-your-own hot pot spot Tang Bar, crowning a veritable quadrant of top-notch dining in a shopping center that, yes, also houses a Uniqlo, a not-so-secret Labubu seller, and the upscale arcade Round 1…