Sunday, July 02, 2006
Giraffe Restaurant and Bar on 1st July
Had a 3 hours lunch ( 115 to 415pm) with Steve @ the Giraffe Restaurant and Bar yesterday, 1st July. It was a great experience to dine there. Btw, believed many people are not familiar with this restaurant. It was situated in Istana Park, opposite Istana and Plaza Singapura.3 Reasons to dine there:-
1. Great Ambience
It was surrounded by nature, trees, trees and trees... If you are to dine al fresco (like us), beware of a fly. Haha. We spotted that, however I treated it like we're in South Africa. Haha... The indoor was great too, cool but you may not be able to enjoy the breeze (a bit hot in the afternoon) and the nature scenery as much. There is dining tables and sofas. So nice!!! A must go place. The afternoon was not crowded, in fact there was only an ang moh couple when we reached there. Haha... The whole place became ours!!! Yuhooo...
Our dining area
2. Reasonable Price
3. Large serving portion
When it comes to good food, aha, I don't care how much calories I'll be consuming. Hehe.. Our fun-filled afternoon was accompanied by large serving food... (no wonder we spent 3 hours there) haha.. Other than the food, the serving dish was extremely huge, just look at the pictures and you'll know.
However, when there's pros, there's cons. The food menu shows limited variety. They are categorizes by the kind of food, e.g. Breakfast and Brunch, starters, Main Dish (seafood, poultry, meat, vegetarian), dessert, drinks and side dish. The sub categories of the main dish only comprises 4 to 5 dishes. The restaurant serves a fusion of Asian, European and African kind of cuisine.
We ordered the following dishes (according to the sequence) :-
Dilmah's Earl Grey
SGD 5.90 per pot/person
Nachos
SGD 10.90
Alrite, though everything looks nice, but this is one dish that I discourage all to try. The cheese got hardened when cold and they will stick the nachos together and make them sloggy. How could nachos be not crispy? Yucks... Had a hard time pulling and eating...
Rib eye (nice beef! thick and juicy)
SGD 28.90
Seville chicken with paella and chorizo
SGD 19.90
Rather wet, but the chicken is tender, the chorizo taste like chinese sausage. There is a buttery taste, believe they placed lot of butter on the pan to prevent burnt and rice sticking to it. But the taste turned out good. There is some char around the pan side, reminds me of claypot.
Brownies
SGD 6.90
Warm brownie, with cookie and cream ice cream, crispy sesame thins and chocolate sauce. :)
Malva pudding
SGD 6.90
Traditional South Africa dessert with chocolate ice cream and splash of Jack Daniels. Nice, warm pudding, chewy, not fuffy. Mascarpone and chocolate sauce. Crispy caramised sesame candy. ;)
The Giraffe Restaurant and Bar is a place great for chilling, especially with a group of friends. The place is spacious and somehow could bring you away from the bustling city into a place of serenity. :) I recommend this place to ya all, worth to dine in.
Hence I shall give it 4.5 stars!!!!
Mab
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