Dinner@ Shiraz@ Clark Quay, Singapore.

Hi,
Finally, I am starting out to write my own blog after being told for umpteenth time by my dear hubby of 18yrs.. I am just lazy i guess.. to write.. well here it goes.

I know may people dedicate the bogs, books , I don't always read the dedications , but I have to no.. let me put it this way.. I want to dedicate this for Anil.

Last night we we dined@ Shiraz , serving Persian food. I had heard good things about the restaurants from our friends, and could not wait to try out the food. It was a pleasant evening- not humid & muggy, so we decided to sit out.

My husband asked for the Wine Menu. The wine Menu to my surprise had 2 white sheets stuck with a new wine list for the first 2 pages, which made it look very shabby, I would have expected the management to reprint the menu, considering the restaurant is located @ Clark Quay.

The waiter arrived to take the order- and he took the order- mentally, my husband thought this to be a bit strange and asked him to write it down,as he did not think he would remember the order for 7 people.

We ordered hummus and an eggplant starter. They both arrived with a 2 complimentary serving of bread, and goat cheese cubes and olives. The goat cheese was Fresh, The hummus was very bland, We have had better hummus, the Eggplant looked yummy- but did not have any flavor except that of the eggplant. The bread was dry and cold and chewy. rather disappointing. We also ordered 2 white wines- they were $12 and 14 each, but the quantity was less than 1/2 a wine glass that too a small wine glass.

We finished the starters and by this time the Belly dancing had started and the place had started to fill up. we waited for the waiter to come and take our order, bu no body looked free, they were attending to the new guests, We finally asked the Maitre to take our order , he immediately took our order. We ordered 1 Sheesh kebab, and 3 Jujeh kebabs, 1 Okra Stew and 1veggie kebab and a serving of rice.

When our food arrived, we realised that there was a mistake with our order- we had ordered a rice dish - side order, and they got us a kebab- beef , when we told them about teh mistake, they took the dish away with out any fuss. So much so for not writing down the order.

The Vegetarian kebab, had no taste, no spice it consisted of 2 potatoes, tomato and celery, with rice and very hard slab of cheese -grilled. the same can be said for the Jujeh kebab, it was grilled to perfection but there was sign of any saffron, or lime , it was just grilled chicken. the rice was very dry, the grilled tomatoes -which were in every dish were either done well or just not done at all. The portions were huge, but with no taste. The sheesh kebeb were the best - tender it had a bit of flavour and the only dish worth a mention. the only good thing about Shiraz is the size of the portions. but the dishes were all bland.
we also tried the sheesha- mint flavour which was the highlight of the evening - for the birthday girl, we were also given a complimentary desert- which came to our table after 3 reminders and we were almost ready to leave. It consisted of Tiramisu which was Pretty good- big serving.

Sadly to say we will definitely will not be coming back to Shiraz.