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2022-09-18
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Attended Vea today with a few friends. I’ve been to Vea before, for a birthday celebration that landed on their Hong Kong - Singapore collaboration. I had good memories of the place from that night - the food was very filling, services up to par, and creativity plenty sufficient. Lunch started for us at Vea at 2:30. The place wasn’t packed, with a table further down not at full capacity. We were introduced to some of the staple Vea dishes, the sea cucumber being a classic and the mini sea urchin
Lunch started for us at Vea at 2:30. The place wasn’t packed, with a table further down not at full capacity. We were introduced to some of the staple Vea dishes, the sea cucumber being a classic and the mini sea urchin tacos a welcoming surprise. The main course, a roasted duck, was delicious, though sliced into a dainty amounts, toasted to excellent standards. The other main course, perplexingly enough, was just vegetables served in a fancy manner. Not what I’d usually expect at a restaurant of such high caliber, but our starving party wolfed it down anyway.
The dessert, a Japanese peach topped with tea mousse over a bed of biscuit/ice cream, was perhaps the star of the show, light and refreshing, although quickly left in front of us to finish at the end.
My experience was definitely affected by the slow service. The tasting lunch menu had eight courses in total - a starter, three appetizers, two mains, a dessert and petit fours. The hours slogged by. We were served three dishes in the span of an hour. It was perplexing. The staff picked up slack near the end with dishes flying out, and one of the waiters hurriedly telling us that we had to PACK our petit fours and TAKE THEM HOME because the restaurant closed at 5. It just made me wonder... how could a lunch take 2.5 hours and we leave without even finishing our desserts?
I left in a rush without even being given the desserts to bring home. The total for lunch, per head, was $2390... I wouldn’t even consider paying half for this experience. The food was alright, but how can one enjoy the food if it exited the kitchen at a snail’s pace? Truly disappointed.
张贴
