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2006-02-04
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1st with all due respect let me say that others reviewer seems to have different taste than mine or totally blinded tastes buds. Well, quality of food in general is one thing but a dinning experience is another. At Latata, I had a wonderful dinning experience. none-the-less, you can't have a good dinning experience without wonderful food.At Latata everything is flavorful, fresh, and natural. The wait staff is not as professional as they could be. When I asked for a reservation, they acted as if
Well, quality of food in general is one thing but a dinning experience is another. At Latata, I had a wonderful dinning experience. none-the-less, you can't have a good dinning experience without wonderful food.
At Latata everything is flavorful, fresh, and natural. The wait staff is not as professional as they could be. When I asked for a reservation, they acted as if they never worked a telephone before. It is understandable as English is not their first language but still that's no excuse.
I do admit that the charges for water is not good.
However, i guess the free juice made up for it. Thou i should be given a choice. The free juice is one of the little things that made a dinner into a dinning experience. The juice was very good and tasty, thou non-alcoholic. It's really too sweet to be something that starts the dinner but pairs extremely well with the seafood. (but then not everyone would order the seafood to start.)
Now, as to the seafood platter, it was awesome. The oyster was wonderful. Of the two types, both were great. The fancy sea water type was not my fav because it was too salty. Given that the oysters are not the best that i ever tasted, I give it an 7or8 out of 10. The mussels are all perfectly cooked and it's havenly with a little bit of pepper on it. Shrimps are great, in fact they are the best cocktail shrimps i ever tasted. They are very flavorful with an interesting texture. Other things are good. (crab is good may be somewhat like chinese cold crab.)
The bread are very tame. The butter is simple. I think they should bake their own bread and serve with clarify butter with herbs.
now... it's a tough call as to when the bread should be served. i think serving it after the cold seafood is well executed but the wait staff should bring the bread pretty much right after the menu. Thou things worked out fine for me, it was not planned.
well, the bread is great with the FULL FLAVORED soup. all i could say is that the soup is dense. It was great and was made with all natural ingredients, it seems. We had the pumpkin and mushroom soup. i wonder how many types of mushroom is in the soup. The flavor approaches complex. The taste was great. The pumpkin soup was very good and brightly yellow like cheese fondue. it was great with the bread even when the bread was nothing special. The only problem was that the pumpkin soup was really sweet, the kabocha might be involved but i don't really know. A roasting prior to making it into a soup could have that effect. I can't see how another reviewer could compare it to a cambell soup. i would love to have the cambell soup that could come close to Latata's pumpkin soup.
The salad was nothing special, just not something bad. The vinegar was not spectacular but good quality. It's a "seafood" salad, it seems very very japanese to me, because the salad had fish egg roe in it. (just a personal thing) The fish egg roe was a nice touch.
The main course was great. i had rack of lamb. it's perfectly cook. i am disappointed that I was asked how well done to do it. My theory is that the quality and cut should dictate how welldone the meat should be and the chef should be the judge. The customer who would not even have a clue as to what the meat looks like should not be the one deciding how to cook it. I guess Asian often tends to want things well done and having that option given to the customer is the way to go. (btw I am Chinese) The source was a kiwi, i think, and it was great. It has a tiny sweetness and works great with the lamb. The fresh apple cube with chopped mint was a wonderful side for the lamb. i guess it helps to tenderize the meat too. A good choice of source suppose to be the mark of french cuisine, i guess. The source was at the bottom and not on top of the meat, a more or less modern touch. However, all food was classically prepared and no surprices, pleasant or not. Mustard and mint jelly came sparately. They are of good quality but very "store brought". The wait staff gave me way too much of both. I don't mind it but it was a waste. I was given way too much mustard and mint jelly and way too little pepper. i was too happy to have a pepper mill at the table.
The other source with our pigeon was very good but not spectacular. I guess the chef was no oldschool master french chef. (Those sources always have too much cream and butter anyway.) The pigeon was very good and tender. I love how some of the edible innards was left on the bird to provide an extra kick. all side dishes are so so so old school. I don't want thanksgiving food when i go out for dinner. Oh don't let me forget to mention that all meats was very flavorful and i don't mean salty.
Desert was good. I don't think the chef really knows desert well. BUT the important thing is that he also knows that fact. The chef did only deserts that he knows enough of and did nothing fancy. Everything was well executed. We had the chocolate mousse, chocolate pudding, and the creme bulee. The Chocolate mousse was perfectly wipped. The texture was great. The cold pudding was well done. The creme bulee was still warm inside and it was good. Good but not great. The portion was very well planned. It was just enough and not too tiny. it was not too much so that you can't finish it and be too stuffed. None of the desert is too sweet. The deserts was not in the full flavor mode like the rest of the food served. I like that as my taste buds finally gets a break.
in fact, i think the house juice should be served in place of a desert wine. Note that all deserts available are a sort of mousse, may it be pudding, cheesecake, or creme brulee. No pastry or syrup was in any of the deserts.
tea and coffee are not bad, ok.
张贴