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2011-09-18
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W Hotel, a rather prestigious brand in town. An interesting name indeed.The Living Room, an even more mysterious name to me.While my high-tea fever is still on, I grabbed the chance and paid my visit before I began college again in Sept.Generally, I was rather impressed with the setting and atmosphere. The interior design was remarkable especially in its modern creative design such as the bookshelf and the causual paralleling lamps in the ceilling, echoing with the colourful wallpaper by the sid
The Living Room, an even more mysterious name to me.
While my high-tea fever is still on, I grabbed the chance and paid my visit before I began college again in Sept.
Generally, I was rather impressed with the setting and atmosphere. The interior design was remarkable especially in its modern creative design such as the bookshelf and the causual paralleling lamps in the ceilling, echoing with the colourful wallpaper by the side. My friend and I thoroughly enjoyed sitting at the comfy sofa to chat our hours away.
However,despite the setting, we were a bit disappointed at the food and servicing. In prior to our visit, I was told from my friend and by the reviews at Openrice that the food in Living Room were below average.
In fact, I found the food slightly better than I imagined (perhaps I expected the worse) but absolutely not the quality that a hotel, such as W Hotel would produce. We ordered an Afternoon High Tea Set for Two; I shall write in short, the most distinct points of the experience -
The sandwiches were alright though they tasted quite similiar to what I would have made at home..the french bread was rather hardened by the time they served. The scones were, bizzarely, placed inside a bamboo basket at the middle of the set. It looked very weird to me. Unexpectedly, the scones were even harder than the french bread. Hard as a rock that we could hardly bite them off
We very much liked the honeycomb mascarpone cream, perhaps our favourite among all. The honeycomb was sweet and crispy, along with the mascarpone cream that was perfectly smooth and delightful to have. Very nice indeed
Cookies, a quite surprising snack to find at a tea set. Normally one would find snacks such as macaroons or tarts but none of them appeared at this tea set we tried. However, we didn't like the cookies at all. Furthermore, one of the cookies was very very disgusting. Sorry I normally do not use this word at food reviews, but my friend and I could not help but to keep complaining about the yucky flavour of that cookie (the lighter-coloured one). It tasted like..grass mixing with mud, no jokes. We ditched that immediately. The cookies discouraged us to move on to try any other sweet bits.
Another failure of the High Tea Set was the Tea. It was shocking to see that - 1. The tea was extremly light and plain. The flavour of the tea was not strong at all. My friend ordered Earl Grey and upon the arrival of the tea pot, the tea was not even ready yet when the waitress hurriedly pour the tea out - she was immediately stopped by my friend. My Jasmine tea was also not my cup of tea here..the overall presentation of the tea pots, the below average quality of tea was quite rare to see nowadays comparing to the tea sets served in other places. The tea was done very quick and heartless in terms of the flavour and presentation
All in all, I could only give a SIGH to the Living Room. Ok, it was not as bad as I thought - at least decent in sitting. But in terms of the High Tea Set, it was no good. The savoury, the sweet bits and the tea failed at the presentational aspect. They did not fit in with the style and standard that the W Hotel trying to uphold (grand and modern). In short, not presentable enough for display nor fitting the genre of the place. I definitely do not think my money was worth spent here - I could have used the same amount of money to enjoy a better quality of food somewhere else. No more High Tea here again.
- Y
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