octopus tempura & cauliflower
daughter bought dinner @ babette on 18.9.2015 to celebrate an important occasion for her. ^^
babette
ambience was quite cool i guess, though a much lower level of decor c/w say foc. the table & chairs were like canteen sitting.
service was really poor because of shortage of staff. we waited very long to be served even after signalling to the servers several times. 😦
octopus tempura
octopus tempura was poor. octopus was tough, batter was not tempura standard.
octopus tempura
but perhaps that is to be expected. octopus are usually sous vide (eg our favourite tako kakiage at mikuni) or slow braised & grilled. octopus done by this preparation will almost certainly be tough. 😦
cauliflower
cauliflower was ok i guess but non-descript.
cauliflower
passable i guess.
bara chirashi don
this barachirashi don must go down as the worst ever!
bara chirashi don
yes!! the worst barachirashi don in Singapore! they have pickled carrots & radish mixed in the barachirashi don??? made the don overly sour unlike a sweet vinegared don. never had such preparation before.
even the photos may look quite pretty, but in terms of taste, this would be 1 if sumiya’s is 7 & sun with moon@wheelock’s is 8.
chilli crab linguine
the chilli crab linguine was also the worst i ever had.
chilli crab linguine
chilli crab sauce was overly sweet. crabmeat had not much taste probably the very cheap frozen stuff.
it’s the standard of any fast food or cheap pasta joints. 😦
duck confit don
the duck confit was very good though. may not be better than saveur or concetto but it had good crispy skin & the meat was very flavourful & not very sinewy.
duck confit don
the don was not much taste also, but at least the duck confit was a saving grace. it was very expensive though at S$28 c/w saveur & concetto!
afterall, duck confit at saveur & concetto were just S$13.90! ie 1/2 the price!
steak & foie gras don
the steak & foie gras don was the best of the lot!
steak & foie gras don
the steak was very good.
steak & foie gras don
think the steak was an average cut so the preparation was really quite good to give it nice bbq flavours & not tough texture.
i made my own steak don the next day. my steak was very good but a better cut, 150D grain-fed black angus striploin, so quite commendable for the steak don here.
chicken wings
chicken wings was surprisingly good. better than what my helper makes, which is a very good chicken wing. we added the order at the end & it took forever (like another 20mins) to arrive. 😦
babette does not honour chope’s offer of complimentary lava cake for every S$50 spent!
we had a bad experience though-
restuarant did not honour the chope’s black & white offer of a complimentary macha cake for every S$50 spent!
the bill
we spent S$257 & got only 1 complimentary macha lava cake! 😦
i asked for just a second macha lava cake (afterall we spent 5x the every S$50) but the restuarant refused.
i guess the management & staff are not properly schooled in service recovery. 😦
macha lava cake
i did not like the macha lava cake either. macha was very sweet & very strange combination of flavours unlike the macha parfait kind of flavours which i like (say) at sun with moon. one good thing though was that my youngest daughter liked it. just as well we only had 1 complimentary cake.
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