Had the opportunity to dine at Prima Revolving Restaurant last night to celebrate the birthday of 2 friends. Although this place has been around for a fairly long time, it was my first visit.
My first arrival was met by some valet parking attendants at the front door as I drove in. They waved to me but I thought I would just park by myself and signalled to them that I did not need their service. One of them walked quickly towards me and then told me that all parking must be done by valet as the area is "restricted". I look around and saw a lot of 20 and 40 footers containers parking around, and true enough, there were no proper parking lots at one glance. I got off the car and took a receipt from them.
The place can seen to be a little old with the musky smell along the carpeted lobby as you walked up to the restaurant. But it was very well lit, thus offset the feel a bit. Being called a revolving restaurant, the place we dine must of course, revolve. A few of us can feel the movement and if you look at the railings which see the obvious revolution of the dining platform for more than a minute, you actually feel a little giddy. I feel that the motorised system that move the restaurant in circles needs to be to greased as I can sensed that it slows down and speeds up a little due to "jams" or "humps" along the way, in short I feel the small jerks as I downed the food.
Food wise, nothing to say but GOOD. Awards from Fine Wine & Dine filled up a part of their wall. We had a good ala carte 8 course which cost about $330 for 10 persons. The best part of the dinner was the desert; banana deep fried in sugar coating. A bowl of water with ice was first placed on the table and when the deep fried bananas came, they were immediately put into the ice water and served. My friend told me that this was to hardened the melted sugar coating on the bananas when it was cold.
Another good impression was the valet parking attendants, my friend offered a tip but they refused. All in all, I find this place to serve good food and good service. A bit of oiling on the motor would be nice though.
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I have been to this revolving restaurant before for lunch dim sum with my colleagues. Quality of food was good but pricey for a typical lunch. We can consider this restaurant for our end-of-ICT dinner in 2008.
For affordable and eat-all-you-can dim sum, suggest Miramar Hotel's dim sum ala carte buffet. You will literally eat till you drop.
For better quality and old-style dim sum, you could consider Red Star restaurant neat Outram.
Red Star remains my favourite when comes to dim sum. It is a good place to bring family and friends for a nice get-together and dine.
Maybe we can meet there for our next gathering before the 2008 ICT.
Good idea. Shall we have a gathering there before the year's end?
I am all game for it.
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