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Great Nepalese Restaurant

We went there today, encouraged by great review. Ordered only special Nepalese dishes, to experience the different cuisine.

And – huge disappointment: it was just like any VERY ORDINARY Indian food. What’s more it wasn’t fresh or tasty.

I’m amazed by the previous reviews. But maybe I’m spoilt by our local Indian restaurant that serves food cooked with fresh ingredients...

We will not be coming back for sure.

Thursday, January 24, 2008
Overall rating
Food 2 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 2

Michael Moore

We visited the famous Michael Moore restaurant yesterday evening. And from the beginning it was one amazing experience.

Lets start from the beginning:

1. We were seated promptly and drinks were served quickly. The restaurant is small and very ‘cosy’ with tables very close to each other, which was a bit uncomfortable. I had to actually squash myself to the wall when the waiter was serving next-door table.

2. Then we waited for 20 minutes for orders to be taken and next 15 minutes for bread.

3. Bread was not fresh, and very boring; butter was stale.

4. For starters we took “Artichoke lobster salad with wild mushroom timbale” and “Filo baked goat cheese”. Both were reasonable although nothing exceptional.

Except that there was no artichokes in the ‘artichoke’ salad (when asked waiter said that the white paste that tasted like cottage cheese was artichoke, hmmm…., please read further for waiters explanations).

And there was no filo in ‘Filo’ goat cheese. The goat cheese was baked sandwiched between 2 white bread slices (they were pressed to be very thin).

5. Main courses: Foie gras was perfect, absolutely fantastic. Cinnamon venison too dry and slightly boring. We also ordered side dishes veggies and potatoes.

Could you believe that they forgot about potatoes and we got them when everything else was actually eaten?

6. Desserts: “Fig dessert with almond and orange leaves” (guess what – there was no orange and almonds leaves on the plate). Before ordering I asked the waiter what it is and the explanation was very attractive – layers of filo pastry and fig. Well, there were 2 layers of fig (4 slices), 2 paper thin layers of filo and masses of some kind of cream. Eatable but rather boring.

Another one, this time not eatable: “Grand Marnier muss with lemon grass sauce”. Sounds nice, doesn’t it? And that was it, the name. It was some kind of really nasty orange cheesecake, you would get better one in any supermarket, it didn’t even taste home made, not even fresh. There was not a trace of Grand Marnier taste and not a trace of sauce. I asked the waiter where is the lemongrass sauce. He hesitated and then said that it is inside. (That would be strange, especially that the cake was a very small one.) I cut it through, still no sauce. Further questions resulted in waiter bringing us a saucepan of sauce and explaining that normally there is a layer of sauce inside the cake (hmmmm........) (and the sauce wasn’t good either)

And then we waited another 20 minutes for the bill to be sorted.

This kind of things can sometimes happen. But not with virtually every course and not in this standard of restaurant. And they have not even apologised.

Is this restaurant regarded so highly because nobody remembers what the menu said, or everybody is too polite too comment?

After reading reviews on this website, I had great expectation. The experience was so different.

If you decide to go, try to remember the menu for some amusement.

Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Overall rating
Food 2 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 0