Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Christmas Lunch.

Or something like that - to be followed by gift exchange which is a little different over here because you will not get to know who got the gift(s) for you. Boss decided to have it on this day foreseeing that many would have leave plans starting the day after.

For me, the highlight of the lunch was not the gift exchange but rather the food simply because I never had ROASTED TURKEY neither on thanksgiving nor christmas before!!!!! I shall let the pictures (and captions) do the talking from here onwards.

So much food!!! Look at the size of the chicken, I mean turkey, man! If I'm not mistaken, this 5-6 KGs roasted bugger from Hilton cost about RM400++ and if divided by the number of individuals devouring it, one person would still need to pay around 18+ bucks. I think you can tell from the thin crust that the pizzas are from Domino's or perhaps you were able to recognize from the phone number lols.

Just bottles of non-alcoholic sparkling juice. Drunk employees = non-productive employees - very simple reasoning.

Aftermath of the turkey upon numerous slaughterings by non-professional knife wielders - one of them guilty being me. The cubes of grilled potatoes as seen above were addictively delicious.


That's all, end of story, I shall be compiling the gift(s) for another post. Before I forget and since this can be considered as a food post, comments on food @ The Spread, Gardens Hotel, as mentioned in the previous post. If I'm not taking the discount into consideration, I would give the rate as following:

Food - there is a significant difference between the choices of food here from the norm but its quite limited I would say. There were Japanese, Western and Local dishes, some of the more unique varieties would be toro sashimi (tuna belly), herbal chicken, stewed lam-yue lamb cubes, buttered vegetables and black sesame ice-cream.

Pretty average on the taste and quality of food, nothing too outstanding, nothing too bad either except one of the prawn dishes not being that fresh that day. I enjoyed the grilled squid and ikan bakar the most after recommendation from Boss. Oh, also, its a pity that I can't take beef on that very day, the roasted striploin was really tempting.


Environment - Just right for me, the temperature not being too warm nor too cold throughout the luncheon even though the number of people varies from time to time. Utensils, furnitures and decorative items are well maintained - forgot where the view was overlooking though. Can be a tad bit too noisy at times due to the presence of large groups but can't be help since its a buffet.


Service - Good. Very alert and responsive, always close by to cater to our needs - drink refills, change of plates and all that. When Boss beckoned on the freshness of the abovementioned prawn dish, my colleague mentioned that they changed that whole tray of prawns later. Only when it came to billing, it was a bit slow - might be technical issues though.


There you have it, a simple review of the restaurant. Frankly speaking, it would be kinda pricey to dine there without the discounts considering the many other choices that we have around KL for that same price. Not a place that would cross my mind for buffet meals unless the promotion is still on and I am able to gather a legion of diners with me.

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