The Olive - Plaza Damas

Doink brought me to this small cosy restaurant at Plaza Damas, The Olive to celebrate our February month - our birthdays and Valentines Day. The place looks kinda nice, with just a few tables, nice dim lights. Looks romantic but when it's crowded with people, the place seems more like a market. And there isn't much room for the waiter to walk.

We wanted to go upstairs of the restaurant as Doink remembered that the ambience up there is better but unfortunately there were some kind of function being held upstairs so in the end we had to be seated downstairs.

Complimentary baguette bread

Complimentary bread was served. It's just the normal baguette bread where you can buy off the shelf from major hypermarket. Taste wise - just taste exactly like how a baguette would have tasted. *lol* Honestly, I'm expecting better bread being served as most Italian places do serve pretty good herb breads.

Grilled Mushroom

Do you have any idea what that is. To be honest, I forgotten what it's called. It's grilled mushroom. Presentation was totally bad and worse thing was that they overcooked my mushroom and it was slightly burned. It actually taste very good but sad to say that it was partially burned which spoiled the taste.

Mushroom Soup

Next up is the Mushroom Soup. This is the only thing that was served to me that night which satisfied me. Their mushroom soup taste superb. I have tried various kind of mushroom soup from different restaurant. Some are too bland, no mushroomy taste, taste too artificial, too thick etc. *shake head*. Theirs was tasty with sufficient mushroom taste and the thickness was just nice. This is something you have got to try if you do ever wanted to visit this restaurant. Hopefully they remain their standard.

Pasta Salmon

We ordered pasta and the word salmon, cream and tomato in the menu caught my attention. So I told Doink I wanted to try that. Oh, when the pasta arrived, I was truly disappointed with the taste and texture. The whole pasta just tasted like how our chinese restaurant would cooked their noodles, frying everything together and add corn starch at the end to thicken the sauce. I don't think this is how they should cook their pasta. Taste was not good at all, wasn't sure whether they put the correct sauce in it at all. We ordered pasta and the word salmon, cream and tomato in the menu caught my attention. So I told Doink I wanted to try that. Oh, when the pasta arrived, I was truly disappointed with the taste and texture. The whole pasta just tasted like how our chinese restaurant would cooked their noodles, frying everything together and add corn starch at the end to thicken the sauce. I don't think this is how they should cook their pasta. Taste was not good at all, wasn't sure whether they put the correct sauce in it at all.

Pizza Quattro

Here comes the pizza and I told myself that how wrong can a pizza turned out to be. And again, it was bad. From the picture it does look nice - thin crust pizza but the bread somehow doesn't taste that good. And the chicken wasn't marinated well and it tasted bland. Oh boy, the whole main course that was served to me that night was just terrible. *grrr*And the price doesn't come cheap. It was quite pricey as well.

Doink felt bad for bringing me to such a place and I told him it's not your fault. It's the chef, the restaurant's fault for serving such food to people. Anyway, please take note that all this opinion is truly based on what Doink and I feel about this place. Well, you can try the place and let me know if the place has improved. Hehe.....

Meaty Pasta

I'm treasuring every single second I have whenever I see Doink. It's been getting harder to be away from him and I'm missing him dearly every single day. Anyway, soon we will get to be with each other day and night.... Want to know why? Will let you guys know when it's the right time k.

Anyway, here is the Spaghetti Meatballs which I had prepared for my deary Doink one day after work. Was I tired? Nope, and in fact I was enjoying it. My energy level shot up the moment I took out the pans and ingredients. The moment Doink came to my place, dinner was ready... *yummy*


Spaghetti Meatballs

I knew that Doink always enjoy all his meaty dishes. And this is one of the pasta which I had never made for him although I know that he loves it. It's a very simple and interesting dish to prepare. I prepared my home-made meatballs and cooked with tomato base sauce. The sauce was a bit thick as I overcooked it. Anyway, I didn't add water as I didn't want to change the taste of the base sauce.


Meat Meat Meat!!!

The taste was really beautiful and I actually cooked extra so that Doink can bring some to his office for his lunch but ended up finishing almost all of it and there were too little to keep. Hehe... So in the end I prepared some rice with seaweed and some dishes for his lunch.


*Drooling*

Hmm, I wonder when will be the next time I'm going to cook for him. Hopefully in another few weeks time. I'm coming up with the menu to cook a scrumptious meal for him and trying to see if I can give him a mini surprise. This is because I did not do so the last round in the month of February.

Anyway, hope all my readers are well and really sorry for not updating for sooo long. I definitely miss you guys loads... Have a great week ahead.