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🤮 1/5 - Experience was memorable - but not for the right reasons
By 👻 @Sophie F, 07/08/2021 3:00 am
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The entrance was very underwhelming, we were shown to a table with no particular attention to us, which is fine for a hotel restaurant but not one with plaques of its 2 Michelin stars or 19 Gault Millau points at the entrance. We immediately felt the room was loud - it has horrid acoustics but we were even more shocked at the jarring decor. However, this can be ignored if the meal is good. Sadly, it was not. The atmosphere was further enhanced by the constant coughing from left, right and center! The two children lying down on the couch were sniffling and coughing, touching everything that the waitress then touched - the same waitress serving half the restaurant. Then, a joyous cacophony of coughs from our left too - from a couple who seemed to take turns filling the silence with sniffling, blowing their noses and coughing. A lovely start.
We sat there for so long that I felt like all the servers were trying to get away with serving one less table and pawn it off to someone else, especially since we were smack in the middle of the room, right at the intersection of all the germs whizzing through the air. Finally, we flag someone for the wine list. We wait. We ask again. We wait, almost as if playing some kind of perverse game to see how many times we would ask for the wine list before giving up. I twist and turn, clearly trying to get service, and someone finally notices me and comes over. I ask for the wine list in a more hurried tone, and they finally oblige us.
Amuse bouche comes: the baked potato is great, but nothing else is. It’s a mixture of unnecessary spices and seaweed that they should’ve thrown out last year. Half of them are full of Asian ingredients like bao and kimchi, and so I ask a waitress whether it is Asian-influenced and she says no without hesitation. I don’t care if it is Asian influenced, but the dishes continued to show their Asian undertones and so this was a clear lie. Also, why is their spice on everything? You’d only use spice if you had something to cover up…
The bread comes. It is cold, but it gets warmer towards one side. There is ONE piece fully warm. It is a gradient of temperature. I’m sure that was intentional. The bread, and the butter, are not particularly good. We wait. First course comes, the woman explaining it glosses over half the ingredients, as if there’s isn’t a menu in front of me that I can read all of what she says, and more, myself. Second course comes, three soups. This time, the menu neglects to mention a bunch of ingredients like berries in the bottom of my soup. I won’t even begin o say how hard it was to drink those soups - they were pure salt. The taste is the last thing I care to complain about. Instead, when clearing the dishes, she spills soup on my chair. I only catch it when she is wiping it vigorously, reassuring me it didn’t spill onto my bag or coat. I seriously doubt anything more than vigorous wiping is used to clean furniture there, so the remnants of that soup will forever be stained in that chair.
The main comes, there is curry sauce in a meat. Really, try to tell me it isn’t Asian influenced. More spice and Asian food! They give us a proper knife, however all these mini dishes mean there is literally no way to cut the meat on a surface that fits the knife. I really experimented for a while to see what angles the knife could plausibly used from, there are none. Since they had only given us mini forks and spoons the whole meal, which their hands continuously knocked over as they set plates down, this was really unnecessary. On the note of setting plates down - they were clearly too heavy for the waitresses. They were practically throwing them down when they got close to the table. They had to balance several at the same time - clearly understaffed. It felt like they were constantly sprinting around.
We were celebrating a birthday, and the chef came over and just said ‘congratulations’, looking forward to our table, not to either of us. If you’re going to try, come on, try a little harder, please and thanks. We could see his expression change the second he turned around from thanking customers to going back in the kitchen, it was all just insincere facial expressions and hollow words.
Just when I thought this saga was over, they do not bring out petit fours, but ask you to choose. To choose? Why do I get a set menu if I have to choose? Better yet, they cannot show them to you for hygiene reasons (I’m sure they’ve realize that the people all around would just cough on the tray as they pointed to what they wanted) but then they give you a menu which every other table has touched to choose your petit fours - how hygienic! I ordered a vanilla tonka bean sweet, and what came was pure chocolate. We had already left the cake they gave us to celebrate and a bunch of other desserts because their chocolate was just sub-par. Why would I want additional chocolate when I ordered vanilla?!
The final thing I must mention is we ordered a bottle of sparkling wine, which we did not finish. We asked them several times to cap it and save it for later, which they agreed to graciously, without capping it. Finally, we left the restaurant. The farewell was nonexistent, we just walked out, but our experience followed us to the room. Turns out, our bottle sat open for over an hour from our first request to when they brought it up to our room, still uncapped, at least 30 minutes after we had left the restaurant.
It is evident that the reason this place does not have a proper name is because they do not want to be recognized by anyone who has ever had the misfortune of dining here.
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