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2010-07-15
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Four of us went for dinner last Sunday.The lightings were dimmed to such an uncomfortable level that it took us nearly half an hour to adapt. (We thought that only restaurants like Hugo or Amigos did that in the 60's., very unusual in modern days)We were arranged to sit at a round table (meant to be for 6 to 8 pax), spacious, but very uncormfortable sofa seats, unless your bum was spot on on the cushion, otherwise you would slide into the gap between the cushions.Two of us ordered $888 tasting m
The lightings were dimmed to such an uncomfortable level that it took us nearly half an hour to adapt. (We thought that only restaurants like Hugo or Amigos did that in the 60's., very unusual in modern days)
We were arranged to sit at a round table (meant to be for 6 to 8 pax), spacious, but very uncormfortable sofa seats, unless your bum was spot on on the cushion, otherwise you would slide into the gap between the cushions.
Two of us ordered $888 tasting menu, one opt for the $1188, and one went for a la carte.
To be honest, the food was nicely presented, bright, light and delicately made with a lot of foams and foams!
The $888 was a 5 course meal and the $1188 was a 8 course meal, all the dishes in the 5 course would appear in the 8 course only with smaller portions. So when the dishes were served, one would see the differences and found it meticulously presented. In the 1st course, the $1188 set would give 1 piece of tuna instead of 2, that was fine because it was supposed to be smaller, but that the prawn was also visually one size smaller, great effort from the kitchen that they must have had spent at least a few minutes to pick a smaller one from the pack. For the fish course, since the sole was rolled up for presentation on the dish, one could immediately tell that the $1188's serving was about 1cm shorter than the $888's 5cm long ones! After the blue lobster dish, I could not bear any longer, so I expressed my dissatisfaction to the waiter, as the $1188's lobster dish only bore a piece of claw meat with the size of a lady's second finger! The $888's serving, on the other hand, was very reasonable with one piece of real lobster meat plus a claw.
The maitre 'd came after I had given my words to the waiter, I explained to him that the food portion were already very very petite, and without much yield, would the 1cm of fish made any differences to either the expense of the kitchen or the apetite of the customer, and for any lobster dishes, no kitchen would serve their customers with a finger size claw meat, not even for tasting menus. He apologized, but so? It was a Sunday, one could imagine that the kitchen would be run by the souz chef, if he was not also on leave.
My point here was the kitchen that night was not professional enough, obviously they were given instructions to make the $1188's portions smaller but they did not have the skill to present them simply because they had not tried to understand what customers really wanted for a good meal.
张贴