Andre L.
Yelp
The food is bland overall. For the amount of money that we forked out for every of the dish, it was certainly only worth half of the price. The eggplant was tasteless, the beef carpaccio was super bland and it was served 'on the rock'. What a gimmick. That rock served no purpose. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Just a lump of heavy black thing in the middle of the table with beef covering the top, and we really felt like we had Lady Gaga from the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards chopped and served to us on the table. It looked gross, unappetising and marginally unhygienic. How do you wash that black rock? What is it made of?! Is it porous and what kind of minerals are in there that may have transferred across to the beef and is that even what our body needs? What about any kind of detergent that you may have used to wash that lump? Any residue there? Uh-huh, take that black rock away. If that black thing is demanding the dish to be $45, take it away and please lay the meat better on a bohemian crystal platter instead. It'll look more deserving to get people forking out the doe, maybe. The only thing that gave that beef carpaccio some kind of taste was the green spicy sauce/puree/paste thing that was sprinkled all over it. It's that same green thing appeared on the egg plant dish as well as the on-the-house dipping yoghurt that came with the 3 small squares of focaccia. The menu says that if you want more, it is subject to availability. What precious 3 tiny pieces of focaccia that the restaurant might just run out of it. Are you kidding me?! You're a restaurant, so, go make more focaccia, or cross the road to some Cold Storage and get some more, toast it and serve it, for goodness sake. We seem to be at the mercy of your poorly supplied on-the-house focaccia that seems to happen for every meal serving, as it's permanently stated on the menu! The calamari that was tossed with a small variety of herbs seemed to be basic and extremely overpriced. They must have served us squid that was swimming in a 24 carat tank and the herbs were meticulously plucked from the garden of Eden. A dish that is simple, like it's been taken from the Basic Cooking 101 book. After all those, we finished off with the blue crab pasta. Was really hoping this dish would just pick things up for us. Just wait. The menu says the crab is so fresh that it melts in our mouths. So it did, for the crab. How hard is it to find fresh crabs? - you wouldn't want us to get a bout of food poisoning by serving us crab that has been lying about dead for days, right? The pasta on the other had... was under cooked. That pasta certainly refused to melt in our mouths even if we kept it there fermenting in our saliva for a week! The taste of the whole dish was... like every other - bland. What is it with this restaurant and bland, yet expensive food?! The taste of the dish was just the blue crab and not much else. Some green stuff around to make it a smidge spicy, but overall, it was really a basic, simple meal that even my Thermomix can do a better job in 20 minutes. I am sorry, I am not being rude or unkind. We really did have high hopes for this restaurant but we left feeling underwhelmed and robbed of our hard earned money.
