Tony Roma's

Since i sudah "naik gaji naik pangkat", i decided to treat Honey to one of the finest diner in Cineleisure Damansara. Apalah! Kata mau budget bulan ni? Ooops, i broke the rules tat i set two days ago. D'oh!

Tony Roma's started way back in 1972 in North Miami by of coz none other than himself. It's world famous ribs had racked up taste awards all over the world and now there are more than 230 locations on the map.

I had always been curious bout this diner whenever i go Cineleisure to watch movie. Most of the time i see ppl waiting eagerly in line outside the restaurant even though there are so many more restaurants to choose from at The Curve which are cheaper and not too bad themselves eg. TGI Friday, Paddington House of Pancakes, 1920s etc. How i know it's more expensive? Well, from the design and environment i just guessed...

Honey said one day we should go there and eat and so we were there last nite. We got a warm welcome at the doorway then one of the waitresses led us to a nice spacious seat. She was very sweet as she intro herself and gave us the expensive-looking menu. Indeed, the dishes are pricey. Nonetheless, I wanted to try everything on the menu!

Few minutes later, another waitress approached us to recommend the famous dishes they serve there. Honey doesn't eat "moo-moo" so we didn't order any ribs. We ordered an entree - their world famous, made-from-scratch Onion Loafs, a smoked Mahi-Mahi (a kind of fish), a grilled Rosemary Chicken and one of their famous dessert. Honey looked at me with bewilderment but I assured him that all the dishes served in famous diners come with BIG price and SMALL portions.

BOY, I WAS SOOOO WRONG!!

This "half" onion loafs looked like a double-storey hamburger! The onions were stacked up like a fortress and it came with a special sauce. I had nvr tasted such delicious fried onions. Most ppl dislike onions coz of their erotic taste but this one is absolutely awesome. Totally blew me off. A must-eat entree but....ONLY when a few of you are sharing it coz when we chomped down the last piece of onion, we were 3/4 full liao.

The main courses were ENORMOUS! The plates were bigger than the biggest frying pan in my house. Each main course comes with two side items. I chose Broccolis and mashed potatoes whereas Honey chose the Broccolis and baked potato. Wah lau, they seemed to give us a whole stalk of broccolis and the potatoes were double the size of an original potato selling in supermarket.

Honey's grilled rosemary chicken was really great and my Mahi-Mahi was very smooth and bit spicy. The waitress came with four different sauces and she intro the sauces by drawing a smiley face on a plate. CUTE! She even tied a plastic napkin around my neck! I think i looked stupid with tat...

Halfway through, our stomachs started to signal the STOP alarm. Honey gave me the "i-told-u-so" look and i gave him a sheepish smile. The waitress kept checking on us every 5 minutes to ask bout the food and to clear the plates. You know during an eating competition, the participants have to force themselves to eat eventhough they are full? I felt like one of them.

You ask why cant we just leave it? Oh, you see, Honey doesn't like to waste food and he'll do watever he can to stuff all in. Another thing is what if the chef come running out in a frenzy and ask why we didnt finish the food? We spent a good one hour trying to chow everything down. Honey even helped me finished 1/3 of my fish after i stopped forking it. Then we tried to ask the waitress whether we can take away the dessert but she said they don't have a special container for tat. So?

Dessert time!

Actually the fudge and ice cream were really delicious. Honey's phone camera didn't capture a nice photo of it so i don't wan to post it up to spoil the image. We finished it thoroughly. Once the last scoop of ice cream was gulped, the bill instantaneously arrived. We didn't even signal them. Guess how much???
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A whooping 100++!! But anyway i was happy to pay for tat, coz it was really worth it. We walked out of the diner and saw ppl standing outside waiting to be seated. No wonder they wanted to chase us out. I was like "huh" it was a Thursday nite le, aren't these ppl eating at home?

Oh well, looks like we didn't choose to dine at the wrong restaurant after all. The environment was romantic, the seat was comfy, the service was excellent and the meal was scrumptious and way FULLfilling.

My greediness led to this

I'm SOOOOO sorry, honey.

"Not everyone is an artist but I believe an artist can come from anywhere. I'll definitely pay another visit very soon HUNGRY FOR MORE" quoted from Ratatouille. This is a real touching movie, please go and watch.