Sushi Kikuzawa

Contributor: Ms. Noey
Where: Sushi Kikuzawa
Location: 360 Orchard Road, #02-13, International Building

Ambience

This “restaurant” is actually a sushi bar, almost like those you would see in Japanese shows. The main bar seats about 12 customers, and they have a private room by the side which seats about 6-10 people. It is located at a rather “ulu” part of town (come on, how many people actually know that the building next to lido – no, not pacific plaza – is called International Building?!), but judging from their steady flow of customers, the food must be GOOODDD! Been there a few times, and there were always some native Japanese customers enjoying themselves there. Other than the native Japanese, the restaurant seems to attract a large crowd of Japanese speaking customers too (which kinda makes me, a non-Jap speaker, feel quite out of place. YA, cos they all speak to the Jap Chef/Owner in Japanese. -___-).

Service

I chose the sushi buffet, and it goes like that – you will be served some appetizers (edamame, radish soup etc), then the sashimi platter (one serving per buffet only) before various kinds of sushi is plonked onto the serving plate in front of you. The sushi is prepared freshly right in front of you, a steady flow of sushi will be served, with the chef paying attention to your eating speed before serving the next portion of sushi. The sushi will just keep coming unless you tell the chef to stop serving you. If you would rather choose the kinds of sushi that you would be served, you can let them know your choice of going ala carte buffet. The restaurant is run by the Japanese Chef/Owner, a Chinese apprentice and a Chinese waitress. The waitress takes care of all the customers’ requests in the restaurant, including refilling Green tea, collecting used plates, billing/payment and preparation of Chawanmushi steamed egg (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED – it is only prepared when you order, takes about 15-20mins!). Since she has a lot on her hands, be prepared to have her serve you with a lag time of 5-10mins! Furthermore, if you’re a stickler for quick service, DO NOT EVER sit in the private room. Heard of the saying “Out of sight, out of mind”? Yeah, that applies to the customers sitting in the private room…

Food

The sashimi was great! Fresh and sweet (and they appealed to a non-sashimi fan like me)! They have the blow-torch to serve all their sushi in aburi style YUMYUM. If you’re not a raw food/sashimi fan, then this restaurant is not for you! And if you are not a seasoned sushi eater and choose to let the chefs serve you their spread of sushi, be prepared to eat all sorts of sushi that you’ve never seen… After stuffing yourself with rice, have some jelly for dessert! The jelly comes in various flavours (strawberry, apple, grape, mango, lychee and something else I forgot). All are yummy but not all are available always. While stocks last. My bf and I always manage to squeeze down at least 2 portions of jelly even after so much sushi!

Payment

Usual – ask waitress for bill, wait 5 mins (while she goes to clear other customers’ plates/refill their green tea) before she gets back to you, pay up and go off.

Overall: 0-10 (10 being the best)

Ambience: 6.5 (very normal Japanese fixtures)

Service: 6 (Average pulled down by the waitress. Chefs’ service was prompt and good.)

Food: 7.5 (Very good sushi and good range of Japanese wine – heard from other pple cos I don’t drink)

Damage: 8 (weekend lunch buffet - $39.90 / dinner - $49.90)

Return Value: 8 (I would keep going back if I had the money)

Toilet: N/A (no toilet in restaurant)

Hungry Go Where Review: http://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/sushi_kikuzawa/

P.S: Try to make a prior reservation if you are going on weekends, it tends to be full house…

Brotzeit Restaurant

Its Food Review time again.

Where: Brotzeit Restaurant
Location: 252 North Bridge Road, #01-17 Raffles City Shopping Centre, Singapore 179103
Ambience

Went there at 5:00 pm last Saturday have to leave to somewhere else by 6 + pm so had an early dinner. The place is located at one corner of Raffles City. It’s a German restaurant, quite small with large wooden tables and large wooden benches (no back rest). It was 5 so it is still quite bright with Lush 99.5 playing in the background, there are a few tables of Ang Mo there chucking down beer (heard the beers are really good, I dunno, I dun drink). They have 2 sections, open air and dine in (but no difference on the furniture). Pick a sit at the corner next to the beer cellar and made myself comfortable.

Service

The place is filled with Fillipino waiters and waitress. Open the menu, damn COOL!! The name of the dish and beers are names you can’t even pronounce (What do you expect it is a German restaurant -_- )… but lucky the description is in English. Not long after we sat down the waitress wanted to take my order, she speaks really well (Like Dahzle), but I haven’t made up my mind yet, I think she thought we were there to have a drink. It was early so I ask them if they are ready to serve dinner dishes, then the staff says they have to check, after she check, she told me they are ready to serve dinner.. Then I also notice that the glass walls are actually partitions, they can actually open them up and make it look like those provision shop where there are no doors (Personally I feel it is a bad idea, they do not have air curtains, so the aircon will surely condensate).. My GF told me the Roast Pork Knuckle is Fantastic (that’s why we came here) so I ordered the Roast Pork Knuckle and Smoked sausages (not cigar ar), with two glass of Ice water (I dun drink alcohol). The food came promptly..

Food

The Roast Pork Knuckle came with some funny side dishes, pickles, some sour white veggie, weird tasting smash potatoes and some green… Nonetheless it look really enticing (the presentation is good). The sausages came with the sour white veggie and weird tasting smash potatoes. There a couple of sauces, one of them for the Pork Knuckle and some chili, mustard and an unknown good tasting sauce for the sausages. The sausages taste quite good, the way it should taste, nothing fancy. The pork knuckle is really fat and oily and REALLY YUMMY!! Both dishes are really good, but the side dishes are not so good, which really took the credit away.. While I was fighting my way through the pork knuckle, I drank a lot of water.. but the waiter never took the initiatives to refill them :( until I ask them to do so (Yes, minus marks again).

Payment

After I am done with my food, I ask for the bill, it cost $62+ (Above average damage, anyway it was my GF Treat :) ).

Off topic: I met Yumi and another Japanese Native there.. They were drinking beer and chatting..

Overall 0-10 (10 being the best)

Ambience: 7 (weird choice of furniture and the partition thingy hmm…. And I heard they change to some loud music later in the evening..)

Service: 5 (no initiatives, but still not that bad that I will fail them)

Food: 7.5 (Main Dish Superd!! Side Dishes hmm.. )

Damage: 6 (quite damaging)

Return value: 8.75 (will go back there for the pork knuckle)

Toilet: 6 (Average, gents has a bull on the door, ladies… I dun remember)

Company Website: http://www.brotzeit1516.com/

Hungry Go Where Review: http://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/brotzeit_german_bier_bar_restaurant_raffles_city/

Only average in Hungrygowhere I feel they deserved a little better..

Hope you enjoy the review..

the. Indugle Restaurant

I will write a review for my dining experience for this place,

Where: the. Indugle Restaurant
Location: the. Indulge Restaurant, 2 Handy Road, B1-26, The Cathay, Singapore 229233

Ambience

Reach there at about 6:45. Went into Cathay, one of the indulge staff was handing out brochure at the escalator, got 1 piece of it, take a look and confirmed that the lobster pasta promotion was still on. Found the restaurant at one corner in the basement of the Cathay, walk into the restaurant, it was very small with some slow music playing in the background, not sure what genre was the music, didn’t pay much attention to it, my attention was on the menu. Nothing special, it has standard restaurant ambience.

Service

There was only 2 floor staff (If I am not wrong) working and they seems busy. I ask one of them to place my order, she told me to consider the set promotion, so I ponder for a while and she was gone, tending to other guests. So I called the order waitress to place the order, she was quite friendly, I order the promotional set dinner (lobster pasta as main, Meepok* white wine) and a standard Lobster pasta (Meepok*, Aglio olio). Then the waitress came with the settings for our dinner together with the ice water, she places the plates and drinks all over the place except where it is suppose to be :( . Then our Ices Tea came, it was very sweet (Drink to much might get diabetes, btw it is a complimentary drink)… After a while the appetizer came..

*Meepok = Linguine

Food

The appetizer was Crispy prawn something, it came in a rather long plate with just 2 prawns on it (I think it is in the promotion set that’s why so pathetic), the prawn taste awesome, crispy, juicy and all. After we finish the prawns, the soup came (there was 2 choices, herbal chicken and pumpkin, I picked herbal chicken), the soup was serve in a funny shape bowl, the soup taste quite good too, the chicken meat in the soup also tasted good. So far so good, then came the main course, the Lobster meepok, the lobster Meepok was serve in a width about 2.75 inch, length about 1 foot long plate (Odd choice), the lobsters are rather small, without the feelers it is about 4 – 5 inches long ba. So we dig in, I had the white wine styled Meepok while my galfriend had the Aglio Olio styled meepok which is spicy. The white wine meepok tasted okay, while the aglio olio is really too spicy and it has lots of garlic. Some how the meepok never live up to its starters and soup… Haix. After the main course, I ask for my Desert, which is chocolate ice cream with some coffee favour puddings, which wasn’t that good too.. after finishing up, we called for the bill, no fanciful payment method here, standard show you the bill while you pay..

Overall 0-10 (10 being the best)

Ambience : 6.5

Service: 6.25

Food: 7 (Started well, but ended badly)

Damage: 7 (the whole meal cost about $42, I dun think it is that worth it)

Return value: 9.5 (I gave high ratings as they had quite a good spread in the menu, maybe can try other food next time)

Toilet: N.A (No toilet in the restaurant)

Company Website: http://www.theindulge.com.sg/

Hungry Go Where Review: http://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/the_indulge/

Overall it’s ok for a date, can catch a movie after the meal. Personally I think the price can be manipulated.. Maybe order the crispy prawns ($7.50) for sharing and a main course each will be ok ba.. anyway that’s all for now..

Ma Maison Restaurant

I didn’t go to the one at Central, I went to the one at Bugis Junction (02-51).. I think should be the same.

Where: Ma Maison Restaurant
Location: 200 Victoria Street, Bugis Junction, #02-51, S(188021)

Ambience

Went there at 6:15pm last Saturday. The place is dim lit, very cozy and country styled with Jazz music playing in the background, a candle (those that you use to light cigarette at some places) was at the side of the table. I had a table near the entrance (table 1) , it was half a booth seat (you get what I mean), my GF sat at the booth sit while I sat in the traditional seat, the furniture was just nice, the chair fit nicely into the table with little rooms for adjustment.

Service

The lady that bought us to our table was Japanese, her English is better than some of our colleagues from downstairs. Then when I ask her to order our food, she told me to wait and got a local guy to take the order.. I ordered a Clam Chowder, Cuttlefish ink pasta and Scoth egg. As I was ordering my food, the ice water came. Not long after I ordered the food, the clam chowder came, it looks good, but no garlic bread to go with it L.. it taste good, but not fantastic. My galfriend like it too. Than after we finish the soup. We waited for maybe about 10 mins, dun really know how long but quite long.. our main course came..

Food

The cuttlefish ink pasta looks black and untasteful (what can I say, its black).. The Scoth egg looks really fantastic. Than I dig in, the cuttlefish ink pasta, although doesn’t look good, it actually taste good, I dunno how to describe it, its just good. My galfriend commented that Sushi Tei’s taste better but the promotion is over :( . The Scoth egg is a hard boiled egg that is coated by unknown meat, so I ask the waiter, what meat is that, she told me its mince pork and mince BEEF WTF!! So bloody sad.. So my girlfriend ate the eggs, her comment was, it taste fantastic, (T_T) damn…

Payment

When all our food is served, the waiter gave me a key, a big one with a big key tag that reads Ma-Miason Restaurant and Hotel and a number 1 on it. Then she told me that I have to present it to the cashier for payment. So after the meal I took the key to the counter and made the payment.. the total cost was $44+ quite reasonable in my opinion.

Overall 0-10 (10 being the best)

Ambience : 7.5 (I preferred futuristic feel, but still okay)

Service: 7 (didn’t really utilize it so can’t really comment)

Food: 8.25 (Very Good, but still can improve)

Damage: 8.5 (I find it reasonable for date purposes)

Return value: 10 (will definitely go back there again or try the one at Central)

Toilet: 3.75 (The men toilet is old and a bit dirty, no stench though.. dunno about the ladies)

Company Website: http://www.ma-maison.co.jp

Hungry Go Where Review: http://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/ma_maison_restaurant_the_central/

So overall it’s a good place to go for a date. I hope you will like my recommendation.

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