OYHZ (Hui Zi): Chef D'Table @ CHIJMES

The sis and I made an rather impromptu decision to dine at CHIJMES despite it being under renovation and restoration works currently.

CHIJMES is a beautifully structured historic building complex in Singapore that has been gazetted as a national monument. It once housed a Catholic convent school known as the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus (CHIJ) and their convent quarters known as Caldwell House.

Here's a picture we attempted of CHIJMES.

Lol. I think the website's one is so much nicer.

*credits chijmes.com.sg

AOTD.

OOTD.

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We took a long time before we managed to locate the restaurant as it was tucked away at the furthest end of CHIJMES as we came from The Raffles City. The waiter made sure we knew we were were late for our reservation by looking very pissed :/

He then made a mistake with our seating request, and we had to change our seats eventually. Even then, we were not shown to the correct seats too and almost took the ‘wrong’ seats again.

Well, maybe, MAYBE, he did gesture the correct seats to us from far away, but I sure didn’t see. Plus, his expression wasn’t pleased at all throughout so why should I look at him?

That aside, the meal was acceptable.

Once settled down, we were served the bread basket and olive pesto dip. The focaccia bread was not warmed though.

Fried scallop and apple glaze with salted egg-margarine perfumed with curry leaf
Accompanied by grilled asparagus

Dish reminded us of salted egg yolk crabs *drools*
It is delicious, a must-try!

Lightly seared salmon tataki with fettucini champagne-fennel sauce

The salmon is fresh and sweet, sauce was flavourful.

Pink dory fillet with bell pepper arrabbiata, baby spinach and laced with lemon caper blanc sauce

I had fish cos was feeling a lil’ under the weather that day.

The dory fillet was slightly bland. Not sure if it was cos I wasn't feeling too well and taste buds not working :O
Hence, the red, green and yellow peppers sprinkled on top were very welcome!

Grilled tender juicy beef loin fillet with creamy mashed potato mousseline and sauteed french bean, red wine veal jus

Compared to the dory fillet, the beef was very yummy.
It was grilled to perfection, yet remains tender and juicy!
The mash coupled with the beef was soft and creamy, contrasting nicely with the slightly crunchy beans.

Assorted fresh fruit flambe with orange grand marnier sauce and vanilla ice-cream