Restaurant Week 2014- Royal Mail

2nd Restaurant week was with the girls! :D Very pleased that we managed to get a common date to go for this because we always have trouble finding a date that suits everyone! 

Since there were 3 of us, we could have one of everything!

For starters we had scallops, roasted vegetables and foie gras

Scallops were good! It's only the second time I've had scallops, and this had a delicious pomelo avocado chutney base. roasted vegetables were okay, nothing spectacular. I can't pass judgement on the foie gras because i only took a small taste of it. I can't stomach innards, pun not intended haha.

For mains we had salmon, beef cheeks and chicken

I was hesitant to get the chicken breast because it's so easy to do badly but I was in for a surprise!!! I think the chicken was the best main, with a very very good white chocolate sauce. Never thought the pairing would work but it sure did. Salmon was nice and soft too, but the beef was a bit of a let down, a little too gelatinous. It didn't help that we sat right under the air con so food got cold quickly and the beef because chewy and hard. ):

I loved that dessert was FULL OF CHOCOLATE

can't decide which was best because they were all awesome. The fondue chocolate was good rich chocolate, after the fruits were gone i used the chocolate to eat everything else.

the white chocolate panna cotta and the cheesecake were both smooth and creamy and very very yummyyyy :D

we've come such a long way together (: glad that we still find the time to meet up every now and then (:

Restaurant Week Singapore 2014- Salt Grill and Sky Bar

I've heard about restaurant week NYC from Ter previouly, but never knew that Singapore has it too!! So I was pretty psyched to try out restaurant week this year, and was very lucky that my friend shared with me an early bird booking code that gave me a better pick of restaurants and dates.

 Salt Grill and Sky Bar 

We booked Salt Grill for my parent's early anniversary and went there as a whole family for lunch! (: Getting to Salt was very exciting because you have to go through ion sky and take an elevator all the way up to the 55th floor. I have to say that the elevator was very pretty with twinkly lights hahaha

Anyway, so we were seated at a table by the window! Yay, view of the skyline (: The restaurant is very beautiful with a gracefully curved slope that winds up to the 56th floor. There is plenty of room to walk around and view the skyline if you'd like that.

So here we are with the set menu. They served some hot crusty bread with olive oil and something to dip. This dip was amazing, it had... chopped nuts and other salty things that made the bread super yummy! We also asked for butter lols even though it may be a travesty to have both olive oil and butter on the table. But oh wells :D

For starters we had the crab omelette and tuna sashimi

The omelette was definitely better in my opinion, because there were a lot of flavors on one plate. It seemed to be Asian inspired, with mushrooms and a very refreshing broth! The crab was good too, although I don't really eat crab.

The sashimi seemed slightly smoked, and was fun to eat with the puffed rice. But we've always favored salmon sashimi over tuna, so a whole plate of tuna was a bit much.

We tried every main on the menu!

My favourite dish was the Potato Gnocchi with corn, asparagus and Parmesan cheese. So tasty, and the corn and asparagus was a very nice complement to the starch heavy gnocchi. Looking at it makes me want to eat this again!

Snapper with cous cous! This was quite refreshing, a little tangy. My mum said it was not bad, quite interesting, and I agree although I kept tasting some mint somewhere and I don't really like mint so that was a minus for me.

Beef came with a choice of mustard type. My sis couldn't decide so she got a little of each on the side hahaha. The beef was tender and flavorful, very nicely done as well!

and finally it was time for dessert!!!

Cheesecake and sorbet. The cheesecake was creamy and soft and nicely complemented with sour sorbet!

However the banana parfait won hands down because it was more unique! The banana parfait tasted like milky banana ice cream, and the chocolate mousse was pure chocolate goodness. Everyone knows that banana and chocolate are a winning combination anyway. There was also peanut brittle that tasted a bit like honeycomb and provided some crunch in an otherwise very smooth dessert. LOVED THIS.

Here are some pictures of us! (: Very happy and satisfied with our delicious lunch :D