Tony Roma's

Once a year, I like to have a steak meal at Tony Roma's on my birthday. Since I was travelling so much during my birthday and after, I didn't get a chance to go to Tony's until this weekend. Better late than never, I say.



For drinks, my dining partner had a pina strawberry swirl which I guess is a pina colada with strawberry. I didn't really like the coconut aftertaste but the strawberry flavour masked much of the taste. As for me, I like to treat myself to something alcoholic on this occasion and I decided to try one of the 'drinkable desserts'. I chose the Strawberry Cheesecake Martini. This concoction consisted of vodka, Irish cream, fresh strawberries and ice cream. Surprisingly light with just a hint of vodka, it was lovely to sip. Definitely deserves two pictures:



My dining partner's main course was a grilled salmon with garlic scampi butter finish. Served with fresh vegetables and some sort of yellow rice, the fish was crisp and soft in the right places.



My main course was of course, a steak. This time I chose a New York Strip steak, made well done. I prefer my meat with as little fat as possible, but I chose this cut over the filet mignon because it was quite a bit larger and I was hungry :) The steak was a fine specimen of meatiness and didn't have too much fat. The texture was suitably tender and chewy and the flavour was excellent. I chose a shiitake mushroom topping to go with it and it complemented the meat perfectly. My steak craving was well satisfied.



We ordered another drink to make up for our poor choice in ordering the pina strawberry considering we don't like coconut in drinks :) The Old Fashioned Lemonade was very tart and had a sizable portion of a lemon in it. Quite nice as lemonades go.



The bill came up to about RM160 which was to be expected and was well worth it. Thanks Tony Roma's for a lovely meal! Until next time...

First Food Post: Tony Roma's

You wouldn't know it by looking at me, but I love food. One of my vices in life is the consumption of what most of my friends would consider rather expensive food. So this shall be the first of many food-related posts.

I discovered Tony Roma's through a friend about a year back. It's a nice place and the food is good without being too expensive.

We got to the restaurant late for lunch today due to a traffic mishap (see my Twitter stream), so this was a combination lunch/dinner meal for me. It's a good thing as I was more than satiated by the end. We started with a favourite appetizer of mine - the Onion Loaf.

We decided to order another appetizer as we were planning to share a main course. The fried mushrooms sounded nice (you can never go wrong with fried mushrooms) and I thought it would complement the onion loaf nicely. When it arrived, it turns out that the portion is HUGE. There were no less than 20 mushrooms there! I was only expecting around six or so. They were really good and a nice value for the asking price of RM16.90.

The main course arrived soon and it looked good. They called it Chicken Alfredo Florentine. It was linguini pasta in an alfredo sauce served with baby spinach and grilled chicken breasts. The chicken was nicely prepared and not too dry and the sauce was pleasantly light for an alfredo sauce. Sorry for the slightly unfocused picture... phone cameras aren't all that good.

It took some time, but we finished it all :)

Special mention goes to my dining partner's drink (I just had the refillable ice lemon tea... I was really thirsty). She was driving, so she got a Virgin Strawberry Daiquiri. I didn't try it, but she said it was only fair, not exceptional. It sure did look nice though.

And that concludes my first food post. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed making it (and eating the food of course).