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2014-03-13
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Common room has an anti-pasta semi buffet lunch starting at $138 and up depending on rather you want an entree or not. The salad bar buffet has variety of salads and cold dishes like smoked salmon, herb cooked shrimp, cesar salad, grilled vegetables, and variety of toppings to create your own salad. Then there's also a soup of the day included in the semi-buffet. Everything from the salad bar was fresh and delicious but nothing unique that stood out. They are all very common dishes that you can
Adding $40 you can get an entree of Grilled Rib Eye steak which is served with broccolli, carrots and bearnaise sauce. The price does sound very appealing since it's only $40 more. But I guess you get what you pay for. The beef was chewy and overly salted and doesn't taste fresh at all. It's like beef that has been marinated in sauce for too long. The slice was very thin and definitely did not satisfy my cravings for a good piece of meat. This is definitely a bad entree choice if I were to come again.
Then the lunch set came with a choice of tea or coffee. There were very limited choices for tea (earl grey, green tea) and only black coffee. I decided on having a cup of earl grey and it was brought to me with the tea bag and a cup of hot water. This made me feel like I was in a very cheap hk cafe that serves bad food. The water was also not very hot as well.
Common room has a very nice ambiance, but the quality of the food served at lunch totally did not live up to the restaurant. Their lunch menu definitely needs to add some new elements in order to compete with all the surrounding competitions.
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