Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Set Lunches @ Uluru

Named after the famous sandstone rock formation in Australia that was formerly called Ayer's Rock, Uluru in Duxton Hill is less rugged than it sounds.

With an impressive decor that strikes you as an upmarket dining place, the restaurant is also fairly formal in their delivery. We therefore tries to settle in as comfortably as we could, while anticipating our 3 course set lunches ($24++) to be serve.

Smoked Tomato Soup with milk foam, basil pesto and dash of black pepper. Besides the appetizing rich tomato soup that lingers in the throat, the warmly served, very aromatic herby bun with butter was noteworthy. I would love to have one more.

Roasted Poussin with Mesclun salad and potato wedges. Chicken pieces nicely done with a tinge of char bitterness. Throwing all dining etiquette to the winds, i couldn't resist not popping its bony remains into my mouth for a final savoring.

Fish & Chips with Mesclun salad and potato wedges. Sizzling hot and juicy fish piece with crispy batter tastes great with the sour tartar sauce. Potato wedges were hot and crispy. Salad was just a simple tossing with olive oil?

Looking like slabs of chocolate ice cream neopolitan is my 'smiling face' dessert. The chilling Trio Chocolate Cake has a top layer of white cream that gradate to milk chocolate middle and then a denser base of dark truffle-textured chocolate.

My best way to savour it would be to dip in to the sour raspberry sauce and have all the different flavours in my mouth at once :)

Service here is helpful and pleasant; albeit the small serving portion, food standards here left little room for complaints.

But at the end of the day, it's actually how you enjoy your dining experience as a whole; i would have much prefer a no-fuss dining mostly, these occasional treat of finer dining is a refreshing change nonetheless.

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