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2014-10-26
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It's been quite some time since I wrote food reviews...The experience was pleasant enough this time (plus my bias towards spanish food as a spanish learner ), so I guess maybe the cafe deserves some proper compliment here Espuma's signature paella marked the nice beginning of our dinner. Sprinkled with fresh lemon juice, the Spanish rice was cooked in an appropriate stickiness and appetizing umami of seafood. Not a big fan of mussels so didn't try them out. But the prawns didn't taste as fresh a
The experience was pleasant enough this time (plus my bias towards spanish food as a spanish learner ), so I guess maybe the cafe deserves some proper compliment here
Espuma's signature paella marked the nice beginning of our dinner. Sprinkled with fresh lemon juice, the Spanish rice was cooked in an appropriate stickiness and appetizing umami of seafood. Not a big fan of mussels so didn't try them out. But the prawns didn't taste as fresh as I has expected. Got few slices of Spanish ham (Jamón) inside.Score: 8/10
Named "Fish n' Bites", basically you can tell its the English fish n chips. Thought I have already tried the best fish n chips in town (in Stanley, which cost me ard $148), and it turned out the best only came till now! The fillets suggested a tempting hint of beer, and the fries were crispily fried. Yes! It's THE FISH N CHIPS I HAVE BEEN LONGING FOR! and it definiately is a great deal (just $68) so impressed lolScore: 9/10
Would give it a "fair". Traditional Spanish omelette with spinach and potatos. (Tried it out with some ketchup, just to spice it up!)Score:7/10
Waffles here seem to be highly rated from previous food reviews. Bit disappointed as I would prefer it being more glutinous inside than being mere crispy (and rather dry). It sounds weired when we all agreed the sorbet tasted the best among everything on that plate lol Just so-so. Would love to try the Japón one instead next time!Score: 7/10
Another dessert we got. Tasted like a sweetened version of the Chinese deep-fried twisted dough (油炸鬼), ermmm way too sweet I would say. Shouldn't have chosen condensed milk as the sauce I guess? (other options are chocolate, and coffee) And I didn't like it when I could taste the unpleasant frying oil, which ought to be cloaked under the extravagant amount of sugar. So-so again.Score: 6.5/10
We also ordered the signature fruit tea (hot) and fresh peach tea as drinks. Didn't take any pictures though.
Overall it's a pleasant dining experience. The food was well-worth its price, given its location and quality. Would recommend it and look forward to my next visit!
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Service was more than just satisfactory. Staff was generally welcoming and helpful, except that they seemed to always be in a hurry to collect plates (but in fact we haven't finished them yet). But in sum they were polite enough.
(The above review is the personal opinion of a user which does not represent OpenRice's point of view.)
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