The Apartment, Curve Mutiara Damansara

Here's my blog where i give my unsolicited, unqualified review on good bottles and places to eat......
i look at restaurants from the perspective of an armchair food critic. Wherever i go, be it street food, restaurants, franchises, trendy, posh, high priced etc. All i want is my moneys worth. I expect good food properly prepared, prices in line with the decor, and an efficient, congenial, but not patronizing staff doing its best to assure return business. That's really not much to ask. Yet, many restaurants I visit fail to meet these basic criteria. I will award the places i eat with one to three stars, where one star for good food in its category, two stars for very good food in its category and three stars for exceptional food in its category. ie. a local Michelin star rating ;-)


I will never forget how the staff in this establishent expalined that their menu is based on favourites from Jamie Olivers cookbook!! The menu on a clipboard was like the indexes on the back pages of a cookbook. The decor was based on a living space with a corner resembling a bathroom with tiles and fittings minus a bathtub.

Since it was a lazy sunday afternoon i ordered the perfect pint of Guiness draft on the menu and what i got instead was the can version. The waiter insisted it was a draft and when i questioned the bartender he told me that that they had ran out of it and thought nothing of informing the customer.

Now on to the food, i get turned off rather then impressed with a menu that has too many items for their own good. As it was 3pm, we thought we would grab a light lunch of tomato and mozarella salad. When it arrived it was swimming in its balsamic dressing. It was like having an oily black balsamic soup with cherry tomato's and mozarella floating about.

Next came the open faced beef bacon sandwich on a bed of rocket with two poached eggs on top. The rocket was dried out and the poached eggs were about hard boiled.

Later for dessert was a chocolate mousse cake that was as hard as a rock and when i mentioned it to the waitress she just shrugged and told me that maybe the cake chiller was turned down too low!! I didn't bother about coffee after that.

All this abuse for around RM70++

Overall the decor was tacky, the food was forgettable and the service appalling.

RATING: NIL