Thank you!

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Tin Hill (no, I didn't mispell the title) along Bukit Timah road was reviewed by the local paper last week. Friends who lived nearby wanted to try it out 'cos of the review was faced with a fully packed restaurant.

We tried it out today. The ambience was pleasant, albeit on the tight side. Menus & water were not readily available.

I heard that the 2 salads they had earlier (we arrived late) were quite nice, the mushroom one and the other with shrimp and mango.

While we waited for more friends to arrive, the server had recommended some wings and wedges, which we'd said yes to.

20 minutes later, friends arrived, no wings nor wedges. We asked, another 20 minutes, only the wings arrived. This was an order suggested by the server...

Before our mains arrived, an unexpected friend joined us, after asking for an extra chair, we were told that the establishment only had 40 chairs and if the restaurant isn't informed that there'll be extra people, they may not have any chairs. (what the???) all this was happening infront of a single customer seated at 1 double table.

By this time, I was really hoping the food was what impressed the food critic...

I had the angel hair alio olio capellini with shrimp, the plate was gone in under 5 minutes. It tasted fine, not spectacular, but the portion was sad for S$18.50. Even with the BB (blackboard, the BB was still dated 19 July = 2 days old...) special, angel hair pasta with shrimp in a tomato based sauce, also arrived in disappointing portions.

The S$27 bouillabaisse had only snapper, where is/are the other type of fish? I was glad when another customer seated at the table behind had fedback to the restaurant lady that the seafood stew was not successful... Then there was the roasted chicken which wasn't even worth finishing...

Time for the bill... we were presented with the bill, it was an amount on the bill. The credit card goes, and it comes back with a bill almost double the first amount. Yes, they did mis-calculate the earlier amount, but to just present the corrected bill without stating that a mistake was made on the first bill, and hope that no-one noticed is plain wrong. Check all your bills before signing anything!

We have tried it and I'm happy that the newspaper's food critic had a better time than we had at Tin Hill. Thank you, but never again...