Wednesday, July 25, 2007

I experimented and got gob breaking pasta!

How safe is it to experiment with new dishes even at ‘relatively safe’ restaurants?

After 2 weeks of trying to meet up with friends, we finally got a chance to meet up last Saturday when we all decided to head over to Aylanto on Zamzama for lunch.

Aylanto is usually a very safe bet for steaks, sea-food dishes and more. My comfort food at Aylanto is ‘roasted sole’ while my wife sticks to steak with béarnaise sauce. But on this day, pasta depravation caught up and I ordered the ravioli.

I am as serious of not over-cooking pasta as the next person and take the 7min – 12min cooking instructions for pasta very seriously and one would expect the chef at a fine restaurant like Aylanto to take them seriously too! Maybe this was is ‘off-day’. Maybe he had a fight with his better half or maybe he doesn’t think that pasta can ever be under-cooked, but the pasta was not just underdone, it was hard!

Maybe I didn’t send it back because I was in a generally pleasant mood, but what should one do when served really bad food at a restaurant? Whatever the verdict on that, I don’t think I will be experimenting at Aylanto – maybe.

3 comments:

mars said...

yo- the ravioli at pompeii is sinful- next visit?

jammie said...

the butter chives steak was an excellent recommendation. LOVED it. infact i had the butter steak at flo a few days later which was just as good- am back in steak mood methinks with a bang!

Unknown said...

i dunno man - my experience has always been excellent at aylanto even when ive experimented. I think ive tried everything. and hey YOU cant