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2013-08-12
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Most of the restaurants were fully booked real quick during restaurant week!!! When I booked the table at The Pawn, it was the last 2 seats!! Really lucky!!!! Table for 2 were booked on Friday night at 8pm for me & my cousin.We walked into the restaurant from the front door, up to stairs toward 1/F of the restaurant. The music was so strong that I didn’t really understand how people would enjoy the conversation when obviously everyone need to shout to each other.When we arrived the 1/F at the ba
We walked into the restaurant from the front door, up to stairs toward 1/F of the restaurant. The music was so strong that I didn’t really understand how people would enjoy the conversation when obviously everyone need to shout to each other.When we arrived the 1/F at the bar, we told the waitress that we booked a table through diningcity.com for the restaurant week special priced menu. However, the waitress was clearly very busy with the service that she just pointed us to follow another waiter to take the lift to 2/F at the back side of the building. All this made us very confused.
Anyway, we settled down at our table on the balcony. When we arrived, seats inside were just half filled up & not much people sat outdoor. Luckily there was fans on top, otherwise it’ll be a bit really too hot.
After we settled down, one waiter just came up with the restaurant week menu. He simply just chucked the menu on the table without saying much. What a service!!
My cousin’s choice: Seared & Marinated Yellow Tail Tuna, Hanger Steak & Eccles Cake with Earl Grey Cream.
My choice: Butter Poached Salmon, Pan-Roasted Sea Bass & Roasted Peaches with Lavender Honey & Pistachio Ice Cream.
After the ordering, the waiter actually offered us sparking water or still water. Well….we prefer tap water, which is free. It’s not necessary being charge extra for just a cup of water.
Bread was served up before the official meal. The bread wasn’t hot at all. Was it suppose to be like this? The bread was presented on a heavy block of wood board with salt, pepper & tomato butter for seasoning. The tomato butter tasted quite interesting. The bread tasted better with salt, pepper & butter all together. It’s just the bread wasn’t hot!! Kind of a letdown.Starter
This butter poached salmon was “OH-SO-TASTY!!!!!” The texture of the salmon was so silky & creamy. It’s almost melted in your mouth. The salmon goes really well with the almond purée. The preserved leek & beetroot added a bit of tangy flavor to this dish.
Perfectly cooked tuna!! Still pink & juicy inside. The crunchy granny smith & celeriac salad on top of the tuna was spot-on!!! “Refreshing” is the word for this dish! Perfect for summer.The meal started to go downhill from this point onward!!!!
Main
The skin on the sea bass was still crispy, which was the highlight of this dish. However, the taste of sea bass was like stream fish. YUCK! Tasted a bit better though with the red wine sauce. The glazed parsnips was nice! The truffled potato puffs wasn’t an very outstanding element on this dish, kind of neglect it.
The steak was cooked in medium raw. I’m not sure is it because I got the piece at the side, so it tasted a bit chewy to me. But I believe it’s a nice steak. The bone marrow sauce was a bit too salty. It doesn’t taste like bone marrow at all, it’s more like a very concentrated beef sauce. The chips on the other hand was very nice to dip in the bone marrow sauce or the garlic purée. After the fantastic starter, the main was a bit disappointing.
*Warning!! Some ugly pictures are coming ahead!
Dessert
I don’t even bother to Photoshop or do anything with this picture! ‘Cause i know it’s hopeless!! The ice-cream was almost all melted when it was served up. The roasted peaches was looked like a few slides of roasted potato. The ice-cream was running all over on the plate. Couldn’t taste any lavender honey at all. Pistachio flavor of the ice-cream wasn’t too standout. Kind of regret that I didn’t order the Chocolate & Cherry Arctic Roll!!!! I believe chocolate couldn’t go wrong in any way!!
At least this dessert was much better looking than mine!The pastry of the eccles cake was flaky, which was nice. The flavor of the cream was too subtle that almost couldn’t taste any earl grey at all. There were some earl grey powder was laying under the cream though.
As the conclusion for the whole meal, the starter was the best of all 3 courses. The dessert was completely failure! The main was acceptable, but didn’t ‘wow’ me.
The service was acceptable, except at the start. There was one waitress kept coming back to us & asking this & that, which is nice.
We had a look at the normal a la carte dinner menu, which seems pretty ordinarily to me. Not sure if I would give them a 2nd chance for going again, neither lunch nor dinner.
But as a dessert/ afternoon tea freak, I would love to try their traditional Victorian afternoon tea.
P.S: Restaurant weekly is extended from 19-25 Aug!!!! Another chance to eat some good food with relatively reasonable price.
张贴
