I have been to cafe habitu many many times before but this is the first time I went to this fine dining version of habitu restaurant. As soon as I walked in, my first impression was that the atmosphere and decoration were very very grand and cousy, which made me have high expectation on my meal!
It was my friend's birthday and so we made a reservation for 8. We brought our own cake but I was shocked to hear that they need to charge us $200 for cutting the cake!
We have ordered the following food:-
1) wagumi beef pizza - the beef didn't go too well with thin crusted pizza. Overall speaking, i think this dish is a failure as the two ingredient would taste better if they served them separately.
2) black truffle & mushroom pizza - black truffle was a good mix with the pizza and cheese. A highly recommended dish!
3) salad with Scallop - the scallop definitely tasted good but were too few for sharing among 8 persons. The vegetables was so so. It would be better if the vegetable portion could be bigger
4) crab meat linguine - linguine was cooked to flavour chinese people as it was not al dente, which was good for me! The crab meat mixed well with the linguine as there was crab meat in every single bite of linguine!
5) king prawn risotto - the prawn was good but the risotto was too wet for me. Also the taste was more like spanish fried rice rather than the traditional italian risotto.
6) roast suckling pig - this was the first time I tried the western version of cooking of suckling pig and to my surprise, it turned out quite nice. The pig comes along with granny smith apple which made a funny match up!
7) rib eye steak - definitely the best dish of the night but also the most expensive one. The steak was cooked medium rare. Extremely juicy and the meat was fresh and most importantly, the meat was very tender. What else can I say?? It is my ideal type of steak and if the price of it could be lower, I would definitely come for it every week!
Oh, one more thing worth to mention was that this restaurant served bread before meal. Unlike other restaurant which they served the bread with butter and jam, this restaurant served it with tomato paste. Although I personally prefer the traditional butter, my friends did enjoy the bread with tomato paste!