3 stars for food and an extra star for our waiter.
My family wanted to have a New Years Day dinner and we called in for a 7PM dinner but was told there was no space until 8PM. We arrived around 7:30PM since all the malls have closed and we were going to just check out the menu until our table opened up.
Turns out the restaurant was half empty.
Our waiter was amazing. He spoke fluent English and Chinese. He was very patient with our table as sometimes my mom likes to change her mind 3 times within one minute & I'm very impressed with how he handled her indecisiveness. He always came by to check on our table and refill our bread. He even asked why I wasn't eating my steak (I was too full from the appetizers) and if he should take it back to the kitchen to be re-done.
The food: We ordered the $220 dinner set and 4 of the $55 with a dozen of Valentines.
The Valentines were delicious but nothing brag-worthy, especially at $18/half dozen.
The bread was warm yuuuuummm.
The seafood appetizer:
- Lobster sashimi (absolutely no taste, but the texture + wasabi was dynamite)
- Crab leg: watery and tasteless as well
- Abalone: I rather cook my own
- Mussel: like the ones you find at Mandarin
- Oyster: I believe they were the Valentines as well and meeeeeh.
The appetizer for $55 set menu: I enjoyed it a lot. The shrimp seemed fresh and the smoked salmon was delicious.
The lobster bisque was delicious. They put a couple of pieces of lobsters before they fill it up.
(do not get the French Onion, it tastes like hot dish water mixed with onions lol)
The steak was nicely cooked (medium rare) and I would've destroyed it had I not been so full (took it home).
Tiramisu for dessert - meeeh, I believe they make them the night before or in the morning as my tiramisu cream was frozen when served.
Overall, this place is a little wanna-be high-class. They do need to improve on the quality of the food but the overall ambiance is nice (especially the oyster bar in the middle).