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2008-02-03
My mom works in Admiralty and she has been to Grappa's for lunch many a time, and has been impressed with a few of their dishes. I've heard good things and was quite looking forward to my lunch.It ended up being the most disappointing lunch ever. Seriously, it was shameful the way the dishes came out, especially for a restaurant of its standing.From the set lunch menu ($160), I ordered:1 warm beef carpaccio with olive oil and mushrooms2 a 'chopped lamb' and asparagus pasta3 panna cotta4 cappucin
It ended up being the most disappointing lunch ever. Seriously, it was shameful the way the dishes came out, especially for a restaurant of its standing.
From the set lunch menu ($160), I ordered:
1 warm beef carpaccio with olive oil and mushrooms
2 a 'chopped lamb' and asparagus pasta
3 panna cotta
4 cappucino
1 The beef carpaccio was tasteless, and came with some very ordinary sliced white button mushrooms. The olive oil was also surprisingly flavourless, and overall the dish was extremely tepid and not tasty at all. A far cry from the delicious carpaccios I've had in Italy. The mild mushroom did not work with the flavourless meat. It wasn't so much 'warm' as just room temperature. Unappealing.
2. The pasta was most infuriating. First off, I have to say, Grappa's certainly ignores seasonality - asparagus in the dead of winter? And to that end, zucchini? No wonder the food was tasteless and bland. They should learn from the Italians and truly use seasonal ingredients and make the most of them.
The 'chopped lamb' didn't sound appealing on the menu, but I gave them the benefit of the doubt and thought they'd churn out something quite pleasant. It was ghastly. What I got was a bowl full of GREY chunks of overcooked lamb sitting in a bed of pasta that had virtually no sauce or seasoning apart from the juices that seeped from the lamb from cooking (most likely due to the chefs not searing the meat to lock in the moisture, essentially the lamb was steamed in its own juices ..ugh). They didn't offer me any parmesan cheese, which was desperately needed to add some form of flavour to the dish, so I had to ask. It was truly a feat to finish it, it was hospital food.
On the other hand, my mom's medium tenderloin steak was pleasant (if not a bit on the rare side, though I like that) - but it wasn't very interesting (can people stop just putting carrot/pepper batons on mash, it's so boring) AND cost an extra $30.
3. The panna cotta was the best part of the meal, though it was slightly too thick but that's alright. Looking at the photos of the panna cotta from other people's reviews, I feel jipped. There were about 4 blueberries and two halves of a very small strawberry on the plate, and one of the blueberries were wrinkled and mushy. I know it's not the season for berries, but surely they could have replaced it with some other seasonal fruit and not put out what was essentially a 'summer berry panna cotta'?
4. I am a firm critic of a good cappucino, and this one arrived and looked promising, with thick foam rising over the rim of the cup. But it was deceiving - there was so much milk in the coffee I felt like I was drinking coffee flavoured milk instead of what was supposed to be an espresso with a bit of milk and a lot of foam.
Bread was old, the waitresses don't know the good ratio for olive oil to balsamic, overall it was a VASTLY disappointing lunch, and it came totally unexpected. Will not be going back.
They also had no excuse - the restaurant wasn't even that busy.
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