El Toro Butchery & Grill Restaurant @ Subang Avenue

Yet another new butcher shop had made it's way to Subang. No I am not talking about the market's butcher shop but an actual steak house of course. This new place is called el Toro or The Bull in Spanish (Yup, I google that up) is located at Subang Avenue next to Taipei Taipei Restaurant. Saw this place as it's next to my usual hang out place after gym. So decided to give this place a try since I wanted to beef up yesterday night. OK, that was corny. Parking is free of course at the basement or you can park outside and risk being summon by the local authorities. Your choice. They have in door and out door sitting so you can choose to chill out outside while enjoying your meal. I think you can even order beer from next door since I saw a customer ordered it during my visit. 

I'd decided to sat outside to enjoy the view of traffic building up while waiting for my friend. Once seated the waitress placed this three bottle of sauce on the table. Yeah, they have BBQ sauce and mustard. Went through their menu and realized that their specialty would be their Australian (HALAL) beefs and also Burgers. 

Decided to ordered a bottle of ice lemon tea while waiting for my friend. Well, I have to say this is my first time having ice lemon tea from a bottle. The bottle was really nice and cute. 

After browsing the menu, I had decided to try one of their recommended burger from the menu. Since my friend had decided on lamb, so I ordered their beef. The meal came around less than 10mins which is reasonable fast. As you can see, the set is quite simple with fries on the side. It's freshly fried so it's still crispy. Salt are added by ourselves, so you can decide your level of saltiness. The patty is not that massive but do pack a good one inside. It's really pack but still spills some juices inside although I do prefer it to be more juicier. But I can live with this. They blend their own patty if I am not mistaken so this is really good. Beef bacon is a bit salty but I am alright with it. This is really a good patty although not the best I had but still above average. 

Finally my friend's lamb burger arrived. The patty was really juicy even from the picture above. According to my friend, it was really good and filling too. My friend didn't even managed to finished the bread off as it was too much. I didn't have a try out of the lamb but from my friend's feedback and expression, I know it was good. For the price we are paying I am really satisfy with the quality and quantity of food that we are being served. 

I was surprised when I saw the bill as it was RM40 for all of the above inclusive of tax. Then I'd realized that they had a special 20% discount for all dine-in. Not sure when the promo gonna end but I am definitely going back again for lunch with my lunch buddy since she's such a sucker for juicy patty like me. They also served side dishes like potato salad, soups, fries and beef rolls to name a few. Other than beef they do served pan fried salmon in Teriyaki sauce. Their specialty would be steaks, ribs and lambs of course. You can choose from Wagyu rib-eyes or sirloin which goes from RM50-RM55/100g. They also served black angus rib-eyes and sirloin for RM25/100g. I also realized that they served grainfed & grassfed rib-eyes and tenderloin and even Premium ones too. Wow~ That is a lot of selection. As mentioned earlier, their beef flew in from Australia from what I know. So do drop by and give it a try and let me know how it goes. 

Rating: 

Service: 4.0 out of 5.0

Ambiance: 4.0 out of 5.0

Food: 3.8 out of 5.0

Location: 

El Toro Butchery & Grill

SG-07, Subang Avenue, 

Persiaran Kemajuan SS16, 

47500 Subang Jaya

Tel: 03-5611 7713

Re Della Pasta Taste Bug's @ KSL City Mall

This is my second visit to KSL City Mall over at Johor Bahru. It's located nearby Holiday Plaza. It's one of the newest entry of shopping malls in the city center. My first visit is like 2 months ago and the place actually didn't change that much. I am looking for a decent place for dinner and had surveyed the whole building. Finally I decided to dine in this restaurant called Re Della Pasta.

I was browsing their menu and the waitress was so nice to come out to introduce some of them for me. Since they served some wide varieties of pastas and pizza, so I have no problem deciding my choice of food that night. But still, I had asked for recommendation from the waiter who is ever so helpful throughout my dinner course. I had decided to try their pasta and pizza each.

Home-Made Pasta Salad - RM8.95

I am deciding between their mushroom soup and salad. At the end I had decided on their home made pasta salad. It's home-made Spirelli with tuna, sweet corn, egg, onion, olive and parsley. I have no complaint on the salad but I do wish that it could be colder. Not really a large portion but just nice for one pax.

 Spaghetti Con Fungi - RM15.95

There are at least 20 over choices of pasta in their menu. But sadly they don't have Carbonara in it. Although they don't have my favorite pasta but they do have a variety of in-house pasta. I am really impressed in their menu but then again I need to taste it before making a judgement on them. So I ordered something close to Carbonara. This is actually a vegetarian pasta cooked with creamy white wine sauce with mushroom as their star. Presentation was really good but the portion seemed to be a bit small at the beginning. But when I started to dig in, I was really surprised to see how I was wrong.

Portion was really generous and the spaghetti is not over cooked like some places I tried before. One thing that I want to express is the mushroom they used. Plenty and Generous. They used at least 3 or 4 types of mushroom in the pasta. This is the first time I am so impressed of a Con Fungi Pasta.

 4 Season Pizza - RM17.85

They have around 10 variates of pizza in their menu and again I can't decide on any of them so the waiter recommended this for me, since I can taste four of their other pizzas in one. Actually the waiter recommended one of their specialty in another menu but since it was a seafood based, I had declined. All of their pizza are thin crust which I really happy to hear. They have pepperoni, cheese, mushroom and green peas based pizza on the same pizza. 

I had half of that and I like the mushroom based the most. The tomato based sauce used for all the toppings are the same. But mixing it together with mushrooms is really good. Pepperoni was abundance and I was really happy for that. The green bean portion was the least my preference. Anyway, it's really a good piece of pizza overall.

 Iced Cappuccino

A bit strong but luckily my first sip was at the end of the dinner. Nothing special but just an ordinary but not that bad glass of cappuccino.

 

At the end of the meal, as I am preparing to reached for my wallet to pa the bill, I was surprised that it wasn't in my pocket. Checked everywhere and I still can't locate my wallet. Guessed that I left the wallet in my car. So I had asked the waiter to wait for me while I walk over to my car to check. I even offered my passport to be hold by them while I go and search for my wallet. But he was so kind to just asked me to go and come back with the money when I find it. At the end I found it and paid them. Even filled up their customer feedback form and gave them a really good review on both food and service. Definitely going back on my next trip down South. 

Rating:

Food : 4.2 out of 5.0

Ambiance: 4.0 out of 5.0

Service: 4.7 out of 5.0