Lester K.
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This is a weird one for me. Let me explain.
The restaurant is in the Military Club and the history I don’t need to mention here as you can do a quick search on Google.
This restaurant was recommended to me, so we turned up right at their opening hour but without making a reservation. Sadly I do not find the receptionist being friendly and she made us waited for 20 mins (without telling us, despite I asked after waiting for 10 mins, whether there is a table available or not) before showing us a table.
There is very little interaction between the waiting staff and the receptionist. Typical old fashioned European clubs in Asia where service is that important anymore but they can rely solely on the historical background and history. We stayed for over 3 hours and it turned out that the restaurant was never used to its full capacity. Sorry for ranting, I just thought they really should do much better. The coldness and unfriendliness is absolutely unnecessary for a crime of not making a reservation.
I said it is weird because despite of all this, I still give a 5 star. This is because the food is truly amazing. I had the lobster bisque. Usually restaurants do a gimmick when serving without much substance when it comes to the soup. This is different, the soup is actually hot exactly the right temperature taking into account the time of consuming from start to finish.
The seafood with wet rich is truly exceptional. Rich and generous in the variety of seafood! It was excellent.
I do however have a problem with Portuguese wine I guess. I am not very familiar with their wine. I must say we did not enjoy their “Tiara Douro”, it was so plain and odd that I thought it must be off (not corked) and I asked the sommelier to taste it but he confirmed that is the taste.
We find it hard to adjust our palate and we just order another one which turned out to be a bit more suitable.
The service is ok, not very attentive but at least not pretentious and they were friendly. Don’t expect 5 star service here.
I like the decoration of the restaurant and their food. Because of their food, if I visit Macau again, I will definitely come back.
Food 9.5/10, ambience 9/10, service 7/10, value for money 9/10.