Went there for dinner one night. Wanted to write a review on www.openrice.com. However, they won’t approve the review. I think it’s probably coz the restaurant paid to have their profile there. So, they won’t allow any negative reviews posted. And if it has to be negative, it can’t be too extreme. Anyways, my experience with this restaurant was exceptionally horrible!
We chose this place for the beautiful environmen it provided. It was comfortable compared to other non-asian food restaurants in the area.
We ordered a dinner set for two, it was about $500.
The appetizer was foie gras. It was the roughest one I ever tried.
Then there is the smoked salmon caesar salad. The veggie itself was totally dead…dead for a long time. It was a bit soggy and soft. In the middle of the salad, there was one piece of smoked salmon, the size of my thumb which I didn’t eat coz it was so pale orange…not appetizing.
Then came the soup. It was clam chowder! At this point, I really need to swear! It was ridiculously stinky! The clam they used totally stunk up the soup. I wanted to puke the moment I put that it in my mouth.
After that was the main course. The linguine with mushroom. It was acceptable. Not good, but acceptable.
The most ridiculous part of the dinner was the rib eye steak. I ordered medium rare, but when it came, it was raw! The surface was barely light brown. I felt like they went to the wet market, got a piece of raw meat, then directly served it at my table, skipping the cooking part!
I didn’t expect a high quality in food as it was only $250/head, but at least some effort in making the food “cooked”? The parsley which was resting on the top of the piece of raw meat wasn’t even washed!!!! There’s soil on it!!!
I think Cafe de Coral has better quality control than here!
