zenn bites...

- dinner, last night -
it was a tossup between da paolo and graze
at rochester park.
we settled for graze in the end,
seeing that we've been to other da paolos.

the restaurant was nicely done up,
as are most of the villas in the area,
though we both agree that the table could have been wider -
there's hardly enough elbow space!

we started off with some soy drowned beef tataki
that came with a dollop of strange-tasting, lime green colored sorbet
that i later found out was "hot cucumber" flavoured.

for mains, he had the chicken on a bed of veg
doused with some fusion thai-ish basil-ish sauce
that tasted quite tomyummy to me.
i wasn't as adventurous,
so i went with the salted, peppered and olive-oiled tenderloin
served with a small salad and a shiraz reduction.
the steak itself was a tad overdone and a little too salty
but i liked the charred-ness of it.

to end off,
we had a complimentary dessert platter!
the waiter stunned us by turning up with a large plate of dessert tasters
that we didn't remember ordering.
it was only after the staff set it on the table
that the GM appeared and solved the mystery -
turns out the very-PR-savvy GM knows him.

the chocolate cake filled with warm french dark chocolate
that oozed out so very sexily
was definitely my favourite.
there's also some vanilla thing that he's partial to,
strawberry sorbet and chocolate ice cream that weren't cold enough,
goreng pisang that i didn't touch,
quite a scrumptious apple crumble,
and an unidentifiable mushy red&white pukey thing
that tasted plain weird.

alien foodstuff aside,
it was a rather yummy adventure.
so yummy that i had to go to the gym today
and work real hard to try exercise a bit of the sin off.
*pats on my tum*