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2014-11-18
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Once you stepped out from the lift, you would immediately feel the special ambiance as advertised. The staff would offered water for cleansing your hand before entering the restaurant and the hourly belly dance performance was very unique. Food in general was good except my disappointments below.First disappointment came when our whole lamb shank arrived. We asked it to be cut into pieces and it took at least half an hour for it to arrive. It only came after we've asked the waitor the third time
First disappointment came when our whole lamb shank arrived. We asked it to be cut into pieces and it took at least half an hour for it to arrive. It only came after we've asked the waitor the third time is the lamb very hard to slice. He explained they were waiting for us to finish our appetizer instead (given that we've asked twice before?). We were a big group, ordered loads of other food and it was very late at night - we just wanted our thousand dollar lamb shank to come. No doubt the quality was good and it came without disappoitment, it could be much better if it comes hot enough and not so tough on the outside.
Second disappointment was that last order was 10.30pm and we didn't have enough time to really taste the food. Upon reservation, we were told that as it was weekend, we could only book our table for either 6pm or 9pm. We chose 9pm so to give ourselves time to enjoy eating and chatting (According to their website, they closes at 2am and I've confirmed on the phone with them as well). At 10.25pm, waitor came and told us last order in 5 minutes. By that time, our main has just finished arriving from our initial order (our lamb shank arrived not long before). We had to rush ordering seconds and dessert at the same time. Our hot dessert came very quickly within 5 minutes while we are still busy digging into our main course and the waitors were trying to take away our mains cutlery at the same time.
It started well but ended in chaos I would say. I didn't expect a restaurant that closes at 2am has last order at 10.30pm - they should have emphasised it on their website or told us when we made reservation or even upon arrival. One hour and a half time limit is not something I anticipated at any other sit-down restaurant in the same category and paying at more than $400 each. They should either change their weekend 2-round policy (i.e. make it 6pm and 8.30pm or 6pm and 8pm) or change their last order time given the restaurant is not closing until nearly 4 hours after the last order.
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