影片
更多
2020-06-21
2506 瀏覽
I have heard about Tate Dining room for quite some time but it had not been on the top of my list so I had always missed it. This time a friend of mine suggested the place so I went with the flow and gave it a try.The restaurant sits in a low rise building with ground floor and first floor as its entrance and dining area respectively. The decor was quite nice and cozy but there were some minor flaws you could spot easily that make it a stretch to be comparable to the top fine dining restaurants
The restaurant sits in a low rise building with ground floor and first floor as its entrance and dining area respectively. The decor was quite nice and cozy but there were some minor flaws you could spot easily that make it a stretch to be comparable to the top fine dining restaurants in town.
We got a table in the corner which was not bad, more spacious than I thought but the table was very very small. There were 3 of us, it was absolutely quite tight with the big plates and wine glasses.
Besides, whilst they tried very hard to make it a decent dining environment, I would definitely suggest that they put a door or screen between the dining area and their kitchen, as the bright light of the kitchen was a mood killer to the warm dining area, and it was SOOoo noisy in there which was quite disturbing!
The staff were polite and helpful overall. They tried to cater our needs and requests, however, they seem to be inexperience in handling wine and champagne that we brought, we had to keep asking and making requests which should not normally be the case in “real” fine dining restaurants. We brought two bottles- one fine champagne and one bottle of red. The first thing that surprised me was that they opened all the bottles without us! Most of the fine dining restaurants would absolutely open the bottle and keep it near you. But not only did they not open in front of us, they decanted our red wine without showing our bottle and kept it away from us the whole time!! We had check several times whether the red wine had been properly breathed, and yet they still kept hiding our bottle at their bar without showing us. We could only trust that they did open our bottle and there were no mix up. For the record the proper way should have been opening the bottle in front of you and pour it into a decanter, followed by putting the empty bottle next to the wine whilst waiting for it to be properly breathed. The way the whole thing was handled was honestly really amateur, was surprised that this would happen to a “fine dining” restaurant.
Let’s talk about the food. There’s only signature menu to choose from, with the price tag of $1680 per head for a regular menu with pigeon or add $280 for beef.
The food I could say was fusion with mainly Chinese influence than western style. You could taste the domination of Chinese cuisine like fermented red beancurd and deep fried meshed taro (exactly taste like the dim sum commonly found in a chinese restaurant) which overshadowed the seafood’s original taste instead of complementing it. And overall I could say that there were no surprises except for one dish with the cuttlefish and egg yolk which was exquisite. Other dishes were quite regular, maybe they could dazzle the Caucasian palate but I think I could speak on behalf of most Asian that they weren’t special enough.
We ordered both the pigeon and the beef for main course, please DO NOT choose the beef, you have to add $280 for it and it absolutely DID NOT worth it. The beef was tender but tasteless, you could hardly find any hint of beef in it, felt like the pork left after cooking chinese soup! It was so fancy that they put the beef into a drawer to give it a “smoky” taste and they show it in front of you for pictures, turns out it was all gimmicky, there were hardly any smoky taste!
Overall the dining experience was just average, and given the price tag of around $2000 you have much better choices out there with up to standard dining experience and expertise of handling your bottles of wine. I would not recommend it to any foodie unless you had no expectations at all, or you got some foreign friends in town and they absolutely adore fusion cuisine with major chinese influences....which I think most Asian would prefer either a real fusion of taste or rather go for Chinese restaurants.
65 瀏覽
0 讚好
0 留言
張貼
