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2009-09-10
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I haven’t been to this new address before, and it definitely gives a very different feeling than the old address. I was very impressed with the dedicated lift with 2 doors on adjacent sides, one for entry and the other exit (have never seen that before and it ranks just below the two-storey nifty lifts in the World Trade Center.) I was equally surprised by the “serious” restaurant entrance, a receptionist stationed at the reception stand who I half-expected to blurt out “Bienvenue chez La Bons m
Browsing through the menu, I see that for $88 I would get a salad/soup, New Zealand lamb chop, and coffee/tea with herbal/fruit teas options too. As before at the Ship Street address, you can add a dessert by paying an extra $10 to $25. Of course I zoomed in on the softie heart (lol what is the English name for this dessert? Baked choco pudding?) I‘ve never had this dessert here before, and everyone raves about it. We ordered our food and began to contribute to the increasing decibels. Acoustics were definitely an afterthought or no-thought for the owners, and noise levels were like the neighbourhood rough and ready dim sum restaurant. All effort to sex up the place gone to pot……
Anyway, value-for-money is the name of the game, but I have to say it’s a moot point if that is true here. My salad was served in a small soup bowl with quite a bit of cress and some leaves and cherry tomatoes, and some suspiciously salad cream-like dressing. The main was quite ordinary: 3 pieces of lamb chops, some airy cut-up pieces of potato, and pieces of cabbage, zucchini (?) and carrots as sides. Lamb fat aplenty notwithstanding, the meat strangely did not have taste, and the meat was too fluffy for my liking. Methinks this came from a couch-loving mass produced animal, or worse still, had the honour of a bicarbonate soak before becoming dinner. Not a happy piece of meat. The saving grace was the softie heart at the end of the meal that is probably ordered by 9 tables out 10. It was warm and had the requisite amount of chocolate goo, but it was a bit floury, although the heavy chocolate taste was sufficient to mask most of it. Coffee was a very heaty dark roast that is common found in mid-priced restaurants.
So my verdict? For a 4-course lunch at less than $120 without service charge, this place makes up for what it lacks in quality with "luxury" environs, noise levels excepted. Some would say this is a very good deal. For me, the fauxness of the whole place is the most lamentable thing, and I infinitely prefer the old address – it was thoroughly home-made but had a lot more heart. On my way back to the grind, I couldn’t help but think that I had been unceremoniously fleeced, just like my poor piece of lamb whose only purpose was to become a thankless slab of stomach-filler.
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