Many Restaurants, 1 guest

As some of you might know. My Mother in law was in town recently and we had a great time. At least I hoped she had a great time. I know I did and I am pretty sure my wife did as well! We brought her to many of the favorites that has been mentioned in this blog before, to new places that I never knew existed. These are some short reviews of the places I visited:

Max Brenner's: How do I say this? It was cool when I first had a 4 years back. Its a chocolate heaven set in a durian like architecture. Personally, I never thought chocolate and durian mixed well but thats just me. I expected something when I went there again, but it turned out disappointing. We had an early dinner at the nearby self styled after the popular local television series, Makan Sutra Hawker center, which was ALSO disappointing but that's another story. We ordered waffles with chocolate ice cream as well as some brownies and ice cream. How do I put this? It was bad. The waffles were stale and you sense that it might be left out there for too long and the service was tedious. And might I also add to say that at that point of time, there were only 2 other tables in the whole place.

Makan Sutra Hawker Center @ the Esplanade: What I liked about the place. It's location was one heck of a convenient. I wanted very nearly to drag my mother in law to the satay club next to Lau Pa Sat but my wife didn't really feel like walking so we settled on this place. I have never tried this hawker before but lets just say that thank goodness, because it was going to be the last time I was going to be there. We were there at around 6 in the weekday evening and not many of the stores were ready to open yet. We went around looking for new things for my mother in law to try but many of the stores were either not too bothered serving me because I was local or didn't really bother at all. I thought that was sad, not for me but for the state of the hawker center there. They serve over-priced hawker food that can be had anywhere else in Singapore and you have to take in a healthy dose of attitude along with the average food. My advice: don't go. Save your money and go to some where else better. Hey, how about the Marina Square foodcourt across the street?

Spizza for Friends @ HarborFront or was that vivo city? I have never gone to Vivocity (or was that harborfront) until my mother in law came to Singapore. We just had a field day at Sentosa and we wanted somewhere that we could sit down and order pizza and kept cool. Pizza can not be terrible. Its not difficult to make and simple to eat. We ordered a pizza and an appetizer. What I didn't like about the place: the service was slow. Again, its a early dinner situation and there were only about less than 10 people in the restaurant and service was slow? Did I say that the service was slow?

What I did like about the place was the food was actually decent. Not the best. But above average for a pizza joint. I thoroughly enjoyed the pizza and the appetizer and the thing is the bill only came up to $30 some dollars and change for 3 hungry adults. That was cool.