Foods: Italianies @ The Curve

Was working for the whole day at PDII and decided to go to The Curve as sis needs to buy swimsuit for her upcoming island trip at Thailand. 

Didn't able to get any cab by using MyTeksi app, so we decided to activate the uber driver, and our driver Mike is a young and handsome boy, and we enjoyed our journey with Jay Chou's songs playing in the car.

It was around 6.30pm when we finally arrived and decided to walk at The Street to check out the swimsuit, however, due to Christmas season, there was no stall selling swimsuit. Then we both felt hungry and decided to have our dinner at our favourite Italy restaurant - Italianies. 

Of course, the restaurant is fully setup for Christmas with a big Christmas tree at the entrance. We love the snowman that's glued on the glass window. It's very cute! 

O Christmas Tree

Frosty The Snowman, the only song I knew about snowman

The Restaurant

As usual, we were being served with complimentary bread, to be dipped with olive oil and vinegar, to eat while waiting for our order to be served. The bread was made freshly at the restaurant, and it tasted very good. They usually served white and wholemeal bread, but not for today. There were only wholemeal bread served today. 

The Bread

Olive Oil with Venegar

The restaurant was very busy and we were waited for quite some time for our foods to be served. 

As usual, we have ordered our favourite mushroom soup and smoked salmon salad. This time, we ordered something we had never tried before - Chicken Milanese.

The smoked salmon salad (regular @ rm39.55) is served with smoked salmon, mango, mandarin orange, tomatoes and cream cheese with baby spinach and romaine lettuce, tossed with orange vinaigrette dressing. The serving tonight was not as big as what we usually get but it's still okay coz we were still not able to finish the bowl. 

Smoked Salmon Salad

Chicken Milanese (picollo @ rm20.90), our first attempt. It's on their house special menu. This grilled chicken breast is served over rich cream spinach, and its topped with chilled tomato-caper relish.The chicken breast meat was perfectly grilled and its solid yet juicy. With some char-grilled part, it gave the dish an even stronger smell that made it tasted even better and more unique. We both love our first attempt of this dish. The serving is quite big too. 

Chicken Milanese

Chicken Milanese

Didn't take any pic of our soup as we were too hungry and cold due to the heavy rain before we finished work, so, we need something hot and creamy to warm our stomach. However, the taste of the soup was kinda salty and not as pure as what we usually had.

Overall, the quality of the foods served tonight was still able to maintain in their usual standard, hopefully the mushroom soup will be back to the usual taste and the service quality can be improved as well.

Thank God for another good dinner time with good food and with family member that I loved.

Foods: Naughty Babe Dirty Duck @ Bangsar

Sannie and I were at Bangsar at about 5pm today and decided to have dinner there before heading home since mom is not going to cook tonight.

After walked and looked around from Telawi 1 to Telawi 4, we finally decided to dine at Naughty Babe Dirty Duck. 

The decorations of the restaurant shows that they are ready for Christmas. I like the huge Christmas tree at the entrance of the restaurant. The red colour wreaths hung on the fencing of the restaurant are also another eyes catching decoration, full of festive feeling.

Nice Christmas Tree

Red Wreath

My favourite colour

Everything was fine until we stepped into the very dark restaurant. All of the waiters & waitress was just standing (blocking the way) at the entrance of the restaurant, watching us walking into the restaurant, without any greetings, but staring at us as if we are not supposed to be there. We both felt very uncomfortable but didn't want to change to other location since we were both tired after working for a long day.

We placed our order after looking thru the menu and the waiter who took our order had to re-take it due to technical issue on the iPad (yes, they are using iPad to take order). 

The light was too dim inside the restaurant, some diners even use their phone's torch light to read the menu. I think it will be good to if it can be slightly brighter in the restaurant. 

Eat. Drink, Get Naughty

Duck, duck, duck

We ordered a pot or Earl Grey tea (rm8.50) as our drinks. It's served in a very cute yellow pot with matching colour cups. 

Earl Grey Tea

After serving us the tea, they immediately served our appetizer, Jamon Serrano (rm28). It was our first time trying this dish. Honestly, not too impressed as both ham and rock melon were almost tasteless. But overall, both rock melon and ham were fresh, so, it does help to cover up the tasteless part a little bit. 

Jamon Serrano

While we were just started with our appetizer, the mains was served as well. I don't really like the speed of our food being served as it is too fast. While this is not a find dining restaurant, I still hope the staff can be more understanding as our table for 2 was not a big table, and it gets messy when there are so many plates on the table. Anyway, I was craving for chicken and I have no choice but ordered the Grilled Chicken in Balinese Style (rm28). I love this dish. It's a whole spring chicken grilled with green salad, potato and sweet potato fries as the sides. Tasted the sambal sauce but I am not a chili person and I like to taste the food in it's original way, so, I just left it alone after trying its taste. The spring chicken was grilled quite nicely and the meat was tender to chew. I will love it if the chicken can be juicier.

Grilled Spring Chicken in Balinese Style

Sannie has ordered my all time favourite Spaghetti Carbonara with Pork Bacon (rm22). I usually tried not to order carbonara as it's very bad for diet, but since she is the one that ordered, then I shall just enjoy it as we are sharing our foods. 

Spaghetti Carbonara with Pork Bacon

Overall, our dining experience here did not impress us either with their foods nor their service. Hopefully, if we do return again, we will be able to see some improvement. By the way, I have gave my opinions on their FB page under reviews. Hopefully someone will take note and make some changes to improve their service.