hburn10's Reviews
1=SGD 0.058720 Yebbers Online!
Double Yebber Dollar Category for December:
Food & Beverage
Click here for future month
WELCOME TO YEBBER
You can use your Facebook Account to register in Yebber and start reviewing your favourite or least favourite businesses
Please click the login button below and proceed to create a new Yebber ID at the next step.
Weizen Beer ($9.50 for 0.3l) - lovely fruit fragrance and foamy texture - one of their best selling house beer apparently. Its served in a chilled mug and indeed very light and fruity; a very nice ladies' beer. However, I feel they are overpriced and yes I know it is brewed in-house but still, it is one of the more expensive ones around.
Rice noodle roll with shrimp ($14) - Definitely overpriced. Serving is average but there is no noodle in the roll - I think they meant to say 'rice paper'. Can be quite 'raw' in taste for some people because of the greens in the roll. Served with a potent wasabi sauce.
Service was a little sloppy except for a relatively new staff who was generally okay although hands were a bit unstable when serving the drinks and food. I also got an extra 'bug' in my beer and they changed a fresh one for me. We on one occasion wanted to ask for thai chilli sauce for the roll and 1 staff saw us raise our hands. But instead of coming over, he gestured to another staff who was preparing our iced water and waited for him to eventually understand what his gestures mean and come over to help. Now, it could have been easier to walk the maybe 5 steps to us to attend to us, isnt it?
Nothing attractive for me to make a return visit. There is live music in the evenings too. A more reasonable option for home-brewed draft beer will be Queen and Mangosteen at Vivo.
Login to add your comment. Or, Register for an account now. It's free!
I was lured there by their shout-out of 1-for-1 beer, wine, champagne all day, 11am-11pm *(until. June 2011). Plus a 25% off total bill using DBS cards (until Aug 2011).
I didn't expect it to be a marche style kind of place actually, and it turned out to be a nice option to the real Marche which I always thought was overpriced. Their stalls serves mostly Mediterranean stuff: spanish, the ever popular rosti, spanish, italian rotisserie and grill. They also have a separate bar area and a huge showcase of the variety of drinks they serve. The crowd I saw was more a students and families crowd; nice and vibrant.
They also have this system of issuing a buzzer thingy which you get when you get your ordered keyed in, and you pick up your food when your buzzer sounds. This save the hassle of loitering around the stall while waiting for your orders.
Chicken pancake ($6) - This is actually a wrap (there's also a choice of beef). It comes with a very mini portion of salad but with a nice tangy dressing. The wrap itself was a tad thick and tough but the chicken was tender and nicely marinated without the confusion of too ingredients. Makes a nice light meal.
Rosti with parma ham ($4 and extra $2 for parma ham) - the portion is far more generous than marche and also a much thicker one. The top of it are crispy brown although I wish it was less moist. But the parma ham was incredulously small for the $2 we paid for and we gave feedback to the floor manager about this although they admitted that it was supposed to be like that. We know that parma ham is expensive but still, it could have been better presented.
James Boag's Premium Lager ($12) - Decided this amongst their huge list of beer and it came out crisp and indeed very light, good! They also give you chilled glasses which came as a nice surprise as not even proper restaurants do that sometimes.
There's also plenty of sauces / dips to choose from at the different stalls: Dijon mustard, english mustard, pesto, chilli, ketchup, and other stuff I didn't try.
I would like to particularly commend Emman for his outstanding service, which made our first visit memorable. He is all smiles and always efficient, friendly and still polite to a fault. He runs around quite a bit but takes time to recommend the drinks promotion to other tables, takes our orders for our beer and serving it to us, and obliges to request to take photos. He is a gem for his top-notch service and attitude in this (sometimes very) glum service industry.
Fantastic promotion with great prices and relatively nice food to boot; I'll surely come back! Doesn't feel as cramped as Marche too :D
Login to add your comment. Or, Register for an account now. It's free!
Fisherman Toss ($14.90) - an ocean of fresh seafood engulfed in an intense smoked tomato cream sauce - this is done with penne al dente, which was a nice surprise. Small serving of seafood though, though the sauce was just nice wasn't very creamy; the smoked flavour was apparent and added a nice touch to the dish. The only gripe was that it was a bit heavy on the sodium and the dish was served just lukewarm.
Chicken Lagsane ($12.50) - A much smaller serving than expected. While it looked nice, I think even I wont be filled if I'm eating only that.
Swiss Mushroom Melt ($10.80) - Ciabatta seemed to go with this quite well; and according to my colleague was not bad. Came with a very small serving of fries which was nicely crispy.
Coffee ($4.20) - Credit to this, which was almost more than 2x the average serving of an americano, good for big drinkers but too much for me. Avergae quality coffe.
Service was a bit lacklustre, with staff spacing out and us trying to catch their attention a few times. The manager was much more attentive but he couldn't possibly manage the whole place with staff like that.
They're having a 21% of all main course, pastas, and sandwiches until 30 June so worth a shot if you've never tried the food. But I still will not pick this as my first option for food. Coffee Club card holders don't get additional discounts though (rebates still applicable).
Login to add your comment. Or, Register for an account now. It's free!
The ambiance is deliberately kept warm and cozy, almost dark but just bright enough to see what you're eating. Generously spread out table and chairs with some one-sided booth seats and some high seats. The small but adequate space for their resident pianist cum singer is smack in the middle of the indoor dining, just in front of their open concept kitchen.
Come before 9pm for 50% all drinks which is a draw for me. With 1.5 pint of Erdinger, we 2 ladies had the following bites:
Tasty wings served with spicy cumin pepper sauce ($10) - these are really drumlets instead of wings, a little misleading. The cumin sauce provided a very unique twist to this usual pub grub and was served hot from the fryer with no or little oil. If only they served wings instead of drumlets.
Kebab of marinated chicken cubes over fresh lettuce, tomatoes, telegraphic cucumber, green peppers and home made dressing ($13) - surprisingly big portion of chicken with a portion of vegetables which could have been more generous. A sour sweet dressing served the veges well and was a good tart contrast to all the meat we were having. The chicken itself was well marinated and very tender, and with very little skin which I like. Its healthier!
Bavarian grilled sausages served with sauerkraut and choice of djon / french / sweet mustard ($12) - Again a surprisingly big portion of 4 types of sausages and all quite nice except for one which tasted abit chao sng. Maybe its just me. The sauerkraut tasted like it was just soaked in vinegar though and didnt do the name 'pickled cabbage' justice.
Service was rather efficient with the few tables occupied. The crowd only started to trickle in at about 8pm or so.
Prices are decent for better than average food and wouldn't mind returning to try their main courses, before 9pm of course.
Login to add your comment. Or, Register for an account now. It's free!
The set up is similar to Chinese fast food style with self service counters (you take your own cutlery and chilli etc) and simple tables and chairs which could possibly seat about 50-60? The only thing is they dont allow luggage trolleys in their premise so you'll either have to risk stowing it outside and having to glance at it every now and then, or pick their corner table where you can put it next to you as that's considered 'outside'. There's a diligent auntie going around to make sure there's no trolley nonsense too. Cute.
Chicken and zhachai noodle ($6.90) - I didnt have this but it looks like a simple clear soup with simple ingredients which I thought was a good-enough comfort food before any flight.
Ruyi Fried noodle ($6.20) - I like this! Not oily at all, with many ingredients eg. cabbage, mini prawns, beansprouts etc. Also came in a circular take-away box which was a nice touch.
Chicken wings ($1.80 per piece) - Always looks tempting behind the counter so I had to order some. While not wow, it was quite satisfying.
Turnip cake ($0.60) - One of their signature dim sum items, and to be fair it did taste homemade. It was very soft and nicely grilled and not oily which I personally like alot.
I've heard their fried rice is supposed to be good but have not tried that yet. One highlight is of course that they use the automated wok thingy which fries the food by itself but I'm not sure if that makes a huge difference in the flavour of the food apart from being a novelty (which you cant see in any case as its in the kitchen).
Their marketing effort about screening a live video of the food in the works in high definition is definitely attractive and in fact makes everything look good. Good quality mid-range Chinese comfort food at the airport....why not?
Login to add your comment. Or, Register for an account now. It's free!