Cilantro restaurant and wine bar @ MiCasa hotel.

had a great night yesterday. ryan surprised me by bringing me to Cilantro, a fine-dining restaurant at MiCasa Hotel in Jalan Tun Razak, KL. note : a TRULY romantic fine-dining restaurant.

he called me up while i was waiting for him to return home from work.

"ling, i suggest you better go back home first cos i still have work to do."
"oh wohkay."
"but you have to come back to my house again later."
"why?"
"cos i'm bring you to Cilantro."
"hahaha. yah right. bullshit."
"seriousss. no joke. the chef say if i wanna work for him i firstly have to taste his food. then he asked me whether if i have a girlfriend. i asked him, is it really so important to you? he said, yes, because if you come alone you'll spoil my restaurant's atmosphere. and if you come with a guy, my staff will think that you're a gay."
"harh? got such thing one-arh? hahahaha."
"yeaaaah. so dress nicer okay. got to go now. call you later."

*speechless*

eh wtf? trying to say my dressing not nice-arh? pundek.

went back over to his place at about 8.30pm. was stuck in a massive traffic jam for almost an hour. bloodyshit LDP. so many cars and lorries breaking down. at the wrong time. *sigh*

later i found out that he wasn't really making a joke. he made a table reservation for 2 pax and he really brought me there. haha ;p


the outlook and surroundings of the hotel and restaurant did not quite impressed me at first. but once you step into Cilantro, you can definitely feel the luxurious and sophisticated ambience. low lighting..deep shadows. perfect. Cilantro, highly acclaimed as one of the two best fine-dining restaurant in the city according to some websites offers contemporary French cuisine with some Japanese influence. heh, no wonder i had trouble selecting my choice of food from the a la carte menu. i'm not too good in french. and i know nothing about japanese language besides mushi mushi, gomenasai, sayonara and arigato. but thank goodness i understood the word Unagi in the menu. haha. yeah, so while we were trying so hard to make our choice of food, the restaurant manager came over and told us that it would be better for us to let the chef know what we can eat and what we can't eat. it seems that it'll be easier for him to prepare a special menu for us. nehh, now i felt like a VIP *aherm*

so, ryan and i ended up eating a 6 course meal! we thought it was only gonna be a 3 course meal or something. then we realized, "eh? how come the server prepare so many set of cutleries?" mannn. 4 more course to go! at that time, we were only done eating the 3rd course. it was supposed to be a 7 course meal actually. but damn, we were so goddamn full and requested for chef kimura to stop cooking. hopefully that blur looking chef wasn't feeling too disappointed because we never taste his best course. but he looked like he was. erm, sorry-lah. we don't wanna waste good food-leh.

course #1 : a cold salad contains half a tomato and some weird looking vegetable dressed with some kinda i-dunno-what-is-it-called vinegar.
course #2 : truffle (edible fungi) pasta. superbly good.
course #3 : japanese mushroom consomme (a clear soup made of strained meat or vegetable stock) this course is even better! yum-ster.
course #4 : cooked with quite a huge piece (piece?) of scallop and medium rare pan-fried foie gras (foie gras = goose/duck liver I THINK. and was it even pan-fried? i don't know. i'm simply guessing.)
course #5 : poached seabass (i'm not sure if they really poach or steam them.) served with a piece of crab meat and some black squid ink. haha. sound disgusting heh? it looked disgusting as well. but the taste was awesome.
course #6 : supposed to be some lamb meat or lamb rack but we bloody gave up.
course #7 : jeng jeng jeng! the dessert platter. contains 5 kinds of different desserts ranging from cakes to ice-cream to jelly to fruits bla bla bla. YUMMY-LICIOUSSSSS!

note : guess i'll have to modify the descriptions of the dishes later. i don't quite understand what i was writing about. haha. i'll wait till ryan is free to help me get them right. bleh.

chef kimura really does know how to create perfection. every dish was creatively presented, simple yet eye-catching. and 2 thumbs up for the dessert platter!

L to R : beautifully carved mangoes and strawberries, the chocolate lava cupcake (heaven!), tea flavoured ice-cream, some damn sour grapes topped with damn sour kiwi sorbet (donkee, sour eh? bwahahaha. damn nice ohkay.) , some oh-so-delicious pudding served with bits of coffee jelly and ice-cream.

finished our dinner at about 11pm+. the bill came up to about RM300+ (the after discounted price *we're VIPs heh* or else it would prolly be like double or something *sweats*) and we thought that it was worth the money. hallo, damn many course wei. all in all, we went home with a bloated stomach. but i wouldn't have went home with a bloated stomach if ryan was smart enough to ask for a smoking table. i cannot digest myself-lahhhh! ryan is damn smart. oh yeah. and i remember asking him a question during the dinner. and i would like to ask him now, again.

"ermmmm, this is not a pre-valentine's day dinner right?"

i hope not.

p/s : too bad i only managed to take down pictures of the dessert platter. i don't wanna take pictures of every single dish because we might make ourselves looking like some sua-ku/kampung/village people. look at the poor quality of the other pictures. i had to take them without turning on the flash on my mobile. how pitiful.

AND YEAH, THANKS DONKEE, FOR THE DINNER. LUPPP YOUUU x)