Neroteca @ Jalan Somerset, KL

I had wanted to visit this place out for quite some time but didn't have the time to go over each time. Since it's located nearby Changkat B.B, it was quite troublesome for me to go down after working hour unless for special occasion. Finally, I'd managed to visit this place out after some time searching for it. It took us close to 1 hour to get here from Bangsar. Got some wrong direction and massive jam over at Jalan Pudu on the way over. Actually we can't decide where to have lunch that day and finally I thought of Neroteca. Parking was a bitch since there's not much available and there's a construction going on opposite of the building. We managed to persuade the guard to let us park at the reserved parking at the end. 

The place is nicely decorated with lots of water bottles and also wine bottles. They have another sister company called Nerovivo which is located at Jalan Ceylon which is a bit classier. The place emphasizes more on fine wine dining and all. I heard this place served some lunch set and decided to try it out. Not much customers around but just now. Not too crowded and noisy for a quick lunch. 

The window that we are seated are filled and decorated with lots of this Acqua Panna water bottles. Really nice. We are served with plain water but they do served other stuff like juices and coffee which we didn't ordered. The staff was really fast to take our order and willingly introduced recommendations to us. Now that a story that I need to tell later on. 

Upon ordering, we are served with this paper box filled with garlic and bread. This is so freaking ol' school.  I had plentiful experience with garlic bread before but this is my first with real garlic and all. OK, maybe I am a bit jakun as some of you might have tried this before. 

Even the olive oil is in a cute lil canister. 

Now this is what I called a real garlic bread. We soaked the bread with some olive and vinegar oil. Mashed the garlic on top of the surface and lastly sprinkle some black pepper on top of it. Perfect. 

Both of us finished up the whole basket of bread in a jiffy. Not sure if the bread was that good or we're just that hungry that day.  

Went through the menu and decided to ordered my usual dish, Carbonara. When it was served, both of us was really disappointed of the portion. They were really stingy of their pasta. But that was not all. Take a bite into the pasta and it was not really well cooked or al dante for me. There were still a bit hard to bite on. The sauce was alright but the whole pasta under-cooked thingy made the whole experience quite unpleasant. A good Carbonara gone to waste if you ask me. 

So here's the story that I mentioned earlier. My friend couldn't decide what to ordered and decided to asked the waitress for a recommendation. She recommended something off the menu. According to her it's their specialty called the seafood pasta with cherry tomatoes. It has black mussels, squids and prawns. They ran out of squids and decided to gave us extra mussels and prawns. The dish was massive when it arrived. Maybe it's just the mussels and prawns. The pasta isn't that much again but this pasta did tasted good. Again, the pasta was under-cook. I am not sure if it was us not knowing how to eat pasta or they really screwed up the cooking time.

Anyhow, continuing with the story. We were both guessing how much would this dish cost since it's not stated in the menu. RM30-RM40? Maybe RM50 the most? When the bill came, it was RM78. My gosh~! This is the most expensive both of us had in our life. Sorry if I am over reacting here but RM78 for that dish is a bit too much. So the morale of the story, when waitress/waiter recommended something off the menu, ASK FOR THE PRICE.

Since the portion isn't that much, we didn't managed to filled our tummy up. But luckily we had some bread before the main and we are going for the International Food expo after the lunch. So I guess we can eat more afterwards. The total bill come up to RM120 for both of us and we only ordered plain water. So we had a RM60/head lunch which we can actually went for buffet as my friend said. Anyhow, it's a good experience and I hope that we learn something from this. Well, at least both of us did. Final words, good ambiance, good service but the food was just over rated. 

Rating: 

Food: 3.5 out of 5.0

Ambiance: 3.8 out of 5.0

Service: 3.8 out of 5.0

Locations: 

Neroteca 

G1, Somerset, 8 Lorong Ceylon, 

50250 KL

Contact: 03-2070 0530

Capricciosa Pizza & Pasta Restaurant @ Sunway Pyramid

I thought I had blogged bout this few weeks back but I can't seemed to locate the post. Darn~! Am I getting old? Nevertheless, here I am again writing the same post one more time. But since this place does give me a good time while I visited it last time, so it's a pleasure writing bout it again now. The place is called Capricciosa which is located over at Sunway Pyramid new wing. It's next to Old Town inside Jusco. I was actually looking for some pasta lunch with babe when I came across this place Browsed through their menu and found that the pricing are really reasonable. And the rest is history as they say. 

Google up the place and found out that it's actually the No. 1 Italian food craze made famous over at Japan since 1978. Wow, that is even older than me. Hence, I saw a lot of Japanese chef pictures inside the restaurant. Seemed like Japanese people really go crazy for their pasta and pizzas it seemed. Was browsing through their menu which fill with a lot of choices to choose from. Decided what we gonna had and straight with the ordering. 

As always, babe ordered her hot cappuccino which isn't that bad. 

For starter, I had decided that we should warm up our tummy with some nice warm soup. The Italian vegetable & meat soup seemed to be a recommended one. And truly it is. Firstly we were taken aback with the size of the bowl. My gosh, for the price that we're paying this was humongous. You can even share the bowl of soup with your friend. 

As you can see, the soup is filled with ingredients inside. It's savory blend of mixed vegetables with fresh cream and their own specially made sauce. Trust me, this taste better than it looks. I don't often praise any other soup this much but this is hell of a good soup. And dirt cheap too. 

This goes the same as my Clam Chowder. And I had to say this is one of the best Clam Chowder I had to date. And I found out that not much restaurant serve this kind of soup too.

Again, the soup is filled with surprises. OK, not bad surprises but good ones. Plenty of seafood in it like clams and mussels and vegetables too. Thick and creamy just the way I like it. $7.90 for this bowl is definitely a steal. Totally worth every dime. 

OK, now for the main course. I had ordered their Carbonara since it's available in their menu. Can't really change the pasta if I remembered correctly. But I am alright with Spaghetti. Again, the main attraction here is their portion again. When the pasta was served in front of me, I was thinking, this is too small for me. But when I spread it open using my fork, I was really surprised with the generosity from them. Damn, it's so large that I barely managed to finished it. Yes, you heard me right. And more over it's good. Well not the best I had but definitely worth your money. Not too creamy but alright. A bit on the salty side maybe due to the extremely high amount of cheese I added. 

Babe, finally decided with this tomato based pasta with garlic and peppers. And when they said peppers they do give you the truck load. And again, the portion is so damn much. I don't normally said this but this place really are so darn generous on their pasta. For the price that they are charging this is definitely worth every penny of it. For those who like black pepper, this is your plate of pasta. But again a bit salty for me. 

Overall, I had no complain on their food except that they could be a bit gentle on the salt. Definitely need to order their soup if you are there. Worth your money and you can even share the soup with your friend. Trust me when I said the bowl is BIG. Even the spoon is not those ordinary ones. They are served with some big ones too. Service is superb and the staffs are definitely friendly. I had ordered their bottomless soft drinks. Yes, they have that too which is really good. I accidentally knocked off my glass and they were so nice and quickly replaced my drink and clean the table up. Even their foreign workers are friendlier and always there's a smile on their face. Good Good Place for lunch : )

Rating: 

Food: 4.0 out of 5.0

Ambiance: 3.8 out of 5.0

Service: 4.0 out of 5.0