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As a brand new restaurant, I was excited to check it out. But quite a few restaurants these days underwhelm me, despite the hype. So this is just my honest and constructive feedback.
I dined here during Big Taste, and it was good. Nothing extraordinary.. Just good.
We were a party of four. We had the $35 dinner menu, which consisted of a salad, a main and a dessert. The great thing about Big Taste is that it gives you a good idea of the menu, the prices, the quality etc of a restaurant before going and splurging $100+ on a meal there.
First, the food. The salad was a fancy carrot and goat cheese salad, which was quite tasty, but it was very small. The regular menu says it is $12, which would be quite painful to pay. For my main, I had the lamb shoulder with polenta and supposedly baby vegetables. I say supposedly because my dish did not have the vegetables.. It had a tomato salsa-ish type of thing instead. The lamb was quite good, and the polenta went well with the lamb, and so did the tomato side. However, my friend who also ordered the lamb dish, was disappointed he did not get the vegetables. Two others at my table got the poached dover sole as the main. This was supposed to come with a mussels, clams and shellfish veloute. The dover itself was a fairly good size of fish and was cooked perfectly. Tender, buttery, and delicate flavours. Very enjoyable. However, it was sitting on two or three prawns, one mussel and no clams.. a tomato-ey veloute with a few miniature sized vegetables. Guys, come on. If I read on the menu that my fish will be sitting on 'mussels, clams and shellfish veloute', I am expecting something there.. Literally one mussel, 2-3 prawns and no clams does not a shellfish veloute make!
The dessert was quite nice. It was a brownie with vanilla ice cream. Not what was mentioned on the website at ALL. Anyway, it was very, very rich and the ice cream was great.
The service was a bit funny. One waiter seemed rather stiff and awkward and so did the waitress giving us the bread. She gave us whatever bread we wanted on our plate and took the bread basket away. Nowadays when I go to restaurants and cannot decide on a wine, I ask the sommelier for a taste before I order. The sommeliers are always more than happy to do that because if I am going to order a $15 glass of wine, I better enjoy it. I did the same here because I was tied between two Italian reds. They said they would have to charge for the tastes. It was odd because most restaurants dont do that... Anyway, it all seemed very penny-pinching and exacting here at Yellow Door. No bread basket on the table, charging the customer for a taste of the wine before they order, the extremely small portions.. The atmosphere seemed very cold also, not a warm or inviting atmosphere that usually makes for happy experiences. The waiters/waitresses did not smile or make easy conversation..
The restaurant itself is absolutely beautiful and the food is good. Would I be back though? Not entirely sure. I am currently not sold on Yellow Door Bistro, but we will see.
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