Early Christmas Lunch at The Brasserie, Traders Hotel

"Santa Claus is coming to Town…" Month of December is around the corner. Thinking of where to celebrate Christmas with your beloved ones, family or friends?

The Brasserie Restaurant located at the Level 2 of Traders Hotel Penang is promoting “The Brasserie Executive Lunch & Chef Special” for month of December 2009.

This semi-buffet is available on Monday to Friday during lunch hour from 12pm to 2.30pm pricing at RM58 nett per person or RM88 nett per person for Chef’s Special. As for the festive offer, you may enjoy a free bottle of wine for every five dinners at the same table.

The Food Promotions team was invited for the food review in conjunction with the arrival of Christmas Day. Food reviewers as well as the reporters and journalists from the local press were honored to be invited as well.

Upon entering the Brasserie Restaurant, a wide variety of appetizers and desserts are served on semi-buffet greets you. The semi-buffet section consists of the appetizers and desserts.

Appetizers

During this festive season, wide varieties of appetizers and desserts are served on semi-buffet followed by your choice of main course. Some appetizers that we enjoy, here.

Salmon Sashimi

Fresh Oysters on Ice

Grilled Vegetables

Sautéed Button Mushroom

Grilled Prawns

The Main Course

Selection of main course will be rotated and refreshed every week. Here are the 4 types of main course that were served during the food tasting session.

Grilled Beef Tenderloin
with sun dried vegetables, roast potatoes and Bearnaise sauce.

Traditional Salmon Gratin
on a bed of mash potato, tomato relish and Dill de Blanc

Smoked Salmon Linguine
with baby romaine, bell peppers, olives and cherry tomato in extra virgin olive oil sauce

Roast Turkey
with sage stuffing, cranberry confit, giblet gravy, mash potato, cinnamon carrot and water chestnut

You also have a choice of upgrading the main course to any of the Chef’s Special such as roasted lamb loin and seafood pasta. Other Chef's Special that Brasserie have are:

Red Snapper Thermidor
with mashed potato, balsamic salad and Pernod sauce

Grilled Rack of Lamb
with shepherd pie, buttered vegetables and mustard sauce

Tournedos Dijon
Grilled fillet of beef with galliano mushroom ragout, apple risotto and mustard sauce

Seafood Pasta Aglio-olio
with bell peppers, olives and cherry tomato in extra virgin olive oil sauce

Desserts

This section attracted us the most as there are varieties of colorful, cute and tempting cakes. The chef even served Christmas Themed Cakes.

Fruit Cake

Caramel Pumpkin Walnut Cake

Chocolate Chestnut Cake

Yule Log Cake

Christmas Stollen

After the meal, a complimentary drink of either coffee or tea will be served.

When it comes to Christmas party and celebration, many of you will be looking for roast turkey.

The good news is, Traders is offering an Early Bird Offer (order from 15 to 30 November 2009) for a Halal Roast Turkey at only RM250 per set! More info, here.

At the end of the warm early Christmas lunch, Eileen, our host surprised us with 2 cute cupcakes each as a token of appreciation. This sweet little Christmas Cupcakes are sold at RM15 for two pieces.

Christmas Cupcakes: Spicy Ginger & Moist Chocolate flavor

For more details on the promotion, you can visit the link here: http://www.foodpromotions.com.my/2009/11/brasserie-festive-semi-buffet-lunch.html

The Brasserie Restaurant, Traders Hotel
Magazine Road, 10300 Penang, Malaysia
Tel: (604) 262 2622
Fax: (604) 262 6526
Website: http://www.tradershotels.com/

* Photos by Kelvin

Dave's Deli 30% Off all Meals Review

Dave's Deli is having a 30% off all meals promotion from every Monday to Thursday. This restaurant was recommended by many, and looking at the affordable price, we dropped by for lunch for a review. During my last visit, I had the sandwich and did not forget the tasty turkey ham.

Spot the amount of people dining? Full house.

A few of the Ala-carte menu we picked...

Fish & Chip RM 10.36 (NP: RM 14.80)


Chicken Schnitzel RM 9.10 (NP: RM 13.00)


Footlong Sausage RM 9.10 (NP: RM 13.00)


Quarter Roast Chicken RM 9.73 (NP: RM 13.90)

Environment: 6/10
Air conditioned open air restaurant at lower ground of Queensbay Mall.

Food Presentation: 6/10
Main dish comes with a salad and mashed potatoes. A complete meal.

Portion: 7/10
Good and filling meal for one person. Drinks are not included in the 30% off though.

Taste: 7/10
Their famous Dave's Quarter Roast Chicken is delicious, while some also like the Schnitzel deep fried chicken fillet which was served together with the mushroom base gravy. The Footlong chicken sausage was rather salty, while Fish & Chips was ordinary.

Service: 7/10
Waiter and waitresses were busy on the 30% off promotion period, nevertheless trying to serve us well.

Value for money: 8/10
Looking at the long queue during lunch time, the RM 10 complete quarter roasted chicken meal at Dave's Deli? Great value!

OVERALL
This is one of the hot selling promotion that are happening now at Queensbay Mall. Not to be miss!

Dave's Deli QBM
Tel: 04-643 2268
Website: http://davesdeli.com.my/
Link: http://www.foodpromotions.com.my/2009/11/daves-deli-30-promotion.html

Ice Ice Baby @ Auto City

As their tag line says food that melts your heart, here at Ice Ice Baby, they have an extensive menu with pages of snack, dessert and drinks and with only one page of food choices.

With the variety of drinks they have, we spent almost 30 minutes to decide our choices. From the menu, most of our choices are the chef's recommendation and you can guess we are going to have a sugar high supper time!

100% Pure Fruit Juice

Left: Apple + Celery Juice (Regular 12oz) RM5.90
Right: Grapes Juice (Regular 12oz) RM5.90


Mango Juice (Jumbo 44oz) RM8.90

Baby Crepes

Say Cheese RM6.90

Desserts

Harsmar Ginko Lotus Soup RM6.90


Ice Cream HK Egg Puff RM5.90

Snowy Mountain

Front: Grapes Snowy Mountain RM5.90
Back: Mango Snowy Mountain RM5.90

The price was a little above normal, so it's usually rather empty in the day, while busy pack at night. Ice Ice Baby is somewhere you can spend you night enjoying the breeze and hang out for some chit chat, accompanied by sweet desserts and snacks.

Ice Ice Baby
1821-G3 Jalan Perusahaan
Auto City, Juru
13600 Penang
Tel: 604-507 4001