Hot in the City

Friday night, I went with my girlfriend C to The Central. We wanted to check out the new Tom Ton restaurant, which serves black pig tonkatsu. Alas, all reservations were full for that evening.

So we proceeded with our Plan B. We decided to check out Reif + James, this new restaurant at Robertson Quay. It just opened a couple of months ago. I've walked past it once and thought it looked nice from outside.

This Indian manager welcomed us to our table. He was wearing a dark shirt and a silver suit without a tie. I thought it was inappropriate because it's not very professional looking, and it's like showing off his chest hair. I kept imagining his chest hair would fall into my soup. Yikes! I thought he should put on a tie and look as professional as the waiters in the restaurant.

Speaking of which, the waiters were very attentive and professional. Not those teenager waiters at other restaurants. They really knew the job. We really had good service.

They first served us delicious bread. Then we had extras of sweet potato/tapioca chips, which was home-made. Then they gave us cauliflower cream topped with caviar with shrimp and avocado. Delicious! We both had a glass of wine which was excellent . We shared the the appetizer - Grilled octopus with lychee and home-made chilli. There was some salad that came with it. Our mains were same. It was crab meat cooked in linguine with spicy sauce. It was heavenly! We were too full for desserts. However, they gave us some chocolate syrup and a piece of heart-shaped chocolate too!

Oh, when we were leaving, the Indian manager told us that he was the James in the Reif+James. His business card put James Charles. I have something about people with 2 first names. It's kind of strange, don't you think? Apart from that, the dining experience was very good. I highly recommend it.