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Friday, May 23, 2014

Dining Experience - Antoinette (Palais Renaissance)

This post is "Throwback Big C's Birthday (Part 2)" and
also review on Antoinette (Palais Renaissance).

Antoinette was one of the most blogged/ instagram-ed dining place/ talk-about.

Reviews after reviews.

The website stated: "Reservations: Highly recommended, 1 week in advance."

Wow~ I thought to myself, is it really that packed?

Since it's Big C's Birthday, we shall dine in pretty restaurants & so we tried Antoinette.

I called in for reservation of table, there's only one contact number provided on the website.

Talk for 3 minutes to find out that that's for Penhas Road outlet.

But I wanna booked Palais Renaissance outlet, the server gave me another number, asked me to call myself and I did.

The place is really pretty. I love this elegant, classy & lavishing-looking restaurant.

It's like dining in the backyard of big houses in America.

Okay, one issue here.. IT'S VERY EMPTY.

Probably just 2 tables were occupied.

I doubt the servers are local and they seems to happily chatting at the cashier area.

At the direction I'm seated, they will not see me if I need assistance.
That very much explained why Antoinette seems to be losing it.

Let's talk about the food.

Country Style Mushroom Soup

Boeuf Bourguignon (Burgundy style red wine braised beef)

Savory Crepe

Pan-Fried Foie Gras

Look nice isn't it? Sad to say.. Only Mushroom Soup is nice.

Look at my face when I drank it~ HAHAHA (unglam shot by my big c).

Ready to stuff the food into us~

It's my first time eating Foie Gras, Big C said: "either you like or hate it".

I'm fine with the taste just that maybe the Antoinette ones is not as good as other restaurants?

My beef, first mouth.. it taste quite unique.

But subsequently, I'm getting sick of the sauce and all.

Okay, maybe it's just not my kind of food.

The crepe is not bad though. I guess if I were to go there ever again, I will have the crepe.

Ambience: 9.5/10

Service: 7/10

Food: 6/10

Price: Expensive. haha but it's once again Big C's treat.

Thank You for always feeding us. ❤

My C's sissy - Christy. Chevy. Christine

It's quite sad to see how some eatery places started off very well, reached the peak and starting to fall.

Whenever someone, bloggers/ television show/ word-of-mouth introduce nice food or awesome food.

The quality of the food will have drastic changes.

For example: "Bedok 85 Bak chor mee", it was once labelled as "best bak chor mee in Bedok".

Look at it now, the serving becomes smaller.

The soup becomes more bland and etc.

No quality. Standard Dropped.

If I can have heavenly food, I don't mind waiting.

What about you?

xoxo.

Labels: Antoinette, asians, birthday celebration, comments, cosy restaurant, food, food blogging, lavishing looking, new dining experience, palais renaissance, ratings, reviews, singapore

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Review: Floral Sanctuary

Have you ordered yours?

Lady boss Stephanie did a bouquet and have it sent to my office today!!!

Upon delivery, my colleagues eyes were literally O.O

Make your love ones feel special today.

Roses Promotion is now on for Mother's Day, appreciate them while you can!

Here's a video of the beautiful roses in 360 degree.

It's red roses with pearls & crystals together with some flower fruit.

It look so complete & perfect.

I'm in love with these flowers & it's on my office desk now.
*Display mode on*

Of cause my selfie with these beautiful flowers!

Look at the video to have a closer look of the quality of the flowers that Floral Sanctuary offers.

Can you trust them? Yes I do!

and of cause they don't just offer for Mother's Day alone.

They offer many other different flowers for different occasion for girlfriends, dates or even proposal!

Shortlist them as your florist today~

Thank you Lady boss for this beautiful bouquet!

FOR MORE DESIGN/ ENQUIRY LOG ON TO THEIR FACEBOOK!

Buy from them now!

https://www.facebook.com/FloralSanctuary

Best still, contact the owner straight!

Call/ SMS/ Whatsapp, Stephanie: 8298 1150(24/7 at your service!)

You can choose to have your flowers delivered or self collected.

Address: Blk 3 St George's Road #01-95, Singapore, Singapore 320003

Labels: bouquet, cheap, dates, Floral Sanctuary, Florist, flower shop. mother's day, Flowers, ratings, reasonable, reasonable price, reviews, roses, singapore, special occasion

Friday, April 25, 2014

Review: GRUB

Had always been wanting to try GRUB.
First heard about it from some of my girlfriends, it's a bit inaccessible.
Lazy bum like me won't go unless someone's driving.
But thankfully, my BFF drove~ so GRUB for dins with my BFF, Grace.
I love Grub, doubtlessly.
1) The ambience of the restaurant is really cosy.
2)The customer service is awesome.
The server saw me having plain fries when he walked passed my table.
He stopped & asked: "Miss, do you want some chilli or ketchup?"
I was really amazed.
Once, I also had an experience at JPOT with the boy.
The server approached me, passed me a small zip lock bag and said: "Hi miss, you can use this to cover or put your phone inside, so the soup won't splash unto your phone."
Isn't it amazing to dine in such places with awesome server?
3) The waiting time for the food is relatively reasonable.
My BFF commented: "wah so fast meh?" HAHA.
4) The food is tasty.
What's a popular, well known restaurant if the food is no good?

My BFF

Steak with Fries

Chicken Roulade

Churros

I always see people taking picture of Churros.
So, I also must order although I'm not a sweet-tooth person. HEHE.
It's nice, but one or two will be just enough for me.
It taste like donuts, my BFF said it taste a lot better compared to others who sells Churros.
It's always good to try new stuff ya?
Okay they don't take reservation.
So be prepared to queue, it was raining that day but still packed.

GRUB
Address: 510, Ang Mo Kio Ave 1 (Bishan Park 1)
Singapore 569983
Website: www.grub.com.sg
Drop by the website to google your way there!

Aftermath, Chillax with my BFF at Bistro by the Reservoir, WAWAWA.
It's one stop away from my house.
Great place to chillax, peaceful for a not so peaceful day :D
My sleepy face.

Photocredit: My BFF

What an awesome catch up.

Life goes on even if it's bad.
Always remember that the Earth doesn't stop spinning for you
just because you're sad.
Smile, heads up, tomorrow will be better.

xoxo.

Labels: bistro by reservoir, churros, cosy restaurant, dinner, food, food blogging, foodies, girlfriends, good service, grub, local delight, must try, new dining experience, ratings, review, singapore, wawawa, yummy

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Ratings & Review: Siloso Beach Resort.

Initially, I was looking forward to the stay-cation.

So I camwhore non-stop. hahaha, I love this new monthly lenses but I have really sensitive eyes.

I got eye infection since Thursday. But vain me, wanna look good on camera.

With this lens, I don't even need to put eyeliner!

Ending the night without lenses because my eyes got so red by late afternoon.

Guess monthly lenses are ain't for me, now I'm back using my daily lenses, no more dolly eyes ):

Okay let's get back on track..Siloso Beach Resort.

By far the WORST stay-cation ever.

Let me list down a few stay-cation experience in Singapore I had before.

- Ascott Raffles

- Swissotel

- Pan Pacific
- Grand Copthorne

- Marina Bay Sands (MBS)

This round for the girlfriend birthday, we got to try stay-cation at Siloso Beach Resort.

It's entrance looks a bit run-down and have limited parking lot.

And first thing the girlfriend said was "wah piang, the picture look better."

Here we go again, pictures VS reality. HAHA!

Service of the reception area is lousy.. we had baby pram but no one open the door for us.

The moment I stepped into the room, I screamed!

The floor is so sandy, the table beside the bed is so dusty.

TOO DIRTY and worst, we have an infant in the room.

Called housekeeping but the person didn't bring a cloth, ended up using up all the tissues and we have to called to request another.

The floor is still sandy even after vacuuming it and we can't even change room, goodness.

Put down our stuff, ready for the swim.. oh my gosh~ the water looks so dirty.

I swam 30 mins and I'm up and rushing for a bath, I couldn't stand it any longer.

Paid 400SGD per night for such stay-cation, no way!

Okay this hotel had been blacklisted.

Overall, a gathering with the girlfriends is always awesome.

xoxo.

Labels: experience, getaway, hotels, new, ratings, reviews, sentosa, siloso beach, siloso beach resort, singapore, stay-cation, staycation, weekends

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