Sunday, September 21, 2014

The Manhattan Fish Market @ e@Curve

To be honest, whenever I walked pass this restaurant I never even bother to look at the menu and don't even have intention to try the food here. But,something went wrong something out of the ordinary came across where one of the staff approached me  and handed over the menu. I took awhile to browse the menu and surprisingly, why I never want to dine at this place? Judging by looking at the illustration of the foods in the menu, the foods look pretty good and sumptuous. Don't want to crack our head to look for place to dine, we decided to have lunch here. We chose set dish cause that was the only dish that is reasonable at that moment. Big portion and cheap at the same time.


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 This serving is actually for two and it is a lot! What's so special bout this set is that, it offers variety of seafood and other side dishes in one plate. There were mussel, fish, calamari, prawns, rice, veggie, and potato wedges. Not to mention that the price is very affordable. I chose the grill platter since I don't really fancy fried platter cause they were  too greasy for me to even finish them.





Still feel so greedy, so I ordered fried mushrooms which I found a bit plain. Thought the dipping would save the day but I was wrong, cause it tasted weird which make the dish tasted. We also received 2 complementary mushrooms soups that you can't really expect too much in cause it's free.

Time to evaluate the main dish; the prawns tasted fresh, while the calamari tasted so-so~, the rice - too oily maybe due to overly-added-butter in it, mussels - I'm fine with it, and lastly the fish is the winner among all the seafood in the plate. I lost the receipt, so I can't state the price of each meal.

Maybe once in a blue moon I'll visit this place.

Rate: 4/10

Victoria Station @ Damansara

This month is my birthday month, and since I won't be able to celebrate with my husband , he decided to make an advance birthday celebration. He took me to a fine dining, I would say...so we headed to the nearest Victoria Station which is in Medan Damansara and just located next to Ayutthaya restaurant.

We made a quick order cause both of us were so hungry. We ordered 1 dozen of escargots (when I think back, it was quite a lot). Last time we used to order 1/2 dozen but we felt like it wasn't enough and  now it turns out to be like a seafood galore for me cause my husband ordered Columbus platter which is something like a seafood combo. What a strange name, maybe they named it after Christopher Colombus....

Bread & Butter
Escargots 1 doz.(RM31.80)

Seafood Chowder Manhattan (RM14.90)

Columbus Platter (RM49.90)

VS Ribeye (RM59.90)

Seasonal Veggie 

If you're a seafood lover The Columbus platter might satisfy your gastro need cause in 1 plate there's a prawn, lobster claw, squids and couple of fish cutlet. For both of meals will be served with the veggie for which I wish they could replace the shimeji mushrooms (or whatever they call it) with portobello (just sayin). The seafood tasted fine and how I wish they were fresh, plus I'm not a big fan of squids.My husband in the other hand, loves the prawn and fish cutlets. I remember he mentioned about how perfectly cook the fish is and how it was crispy outside and soft in the inside and bla bla bla...

The place was quite full at that time and so it was kinda busy where I also thought I might be waiting a bit longer for my meals, but fortunately the timing of serving is just perfect.The waiters also never fail to entertain your need as they are so attentive and we don't have to lift our hands for attention. At the end of the dinner, the diners were given a loaf of cereal bread made by the chef himself. 

For the next visit: I'm dying to try the lobster.