ON FINE DINING

We live in a society where food plays an important role in our lives. Not just eating to live and nourishment but also for social and emotional reasons. There are a lot of different types of restaurants - from fast food to kid-oriented to cafeteria to ultra fine dining. My blog this time is on Fine Dining/Fine Dining Restaurants.

What are Fine dining restaurants? These are full service restaurants with specific dedicated meal courses. Décor of such restaurants feature higher quality materials with an eye towards the "atmosphere" desired by the restaurateur. The wait staff is usually highly trained and often wears more formal attire. In fine dining, food portions are smaller but more visually appealing.

Fine dining restaurants generally have the following services and requirements:

Dress Code: In most cases a fine dining restaurant will not permit jeans, t-shirts, hats and may even require a suit jacket and tie.

Service: The service at a fine dining restaurant will generally be top notch. Expect each table to have no less than two servers directly responsible for it and a Maitre 'D overseeing service.

Menu: The menu at fine dining restaurants tends to be extremely classy with high quality ingredients and prepared by a well-known and talented chef with years of industry experience. 

Food: Top quality produce treated delicately with respect. Small portions paid with extreme details. Combining food and art concept together. Making food taste good and look good.

To appreciate fine dining, our class once tried the food and service of The Royale Lounge at Royal Hotel, GSC.

at royale lounge

with sir felix

fun dining

after the dinner

fine people... on fine dining...

  

DINING OUT IS THE BEST WAY TO BOND

There are so many ways to bond with your family. For some, they do activities together like biking in the park, planting new materials in the garden or watching a good film. For us, if our budget allows us, we go out and dine together. Last week, we went through the rain to dine at Grab-a-Crab Restaurant at Robinsons Mall Gensan. 

We had a hearty dinner of Quail Soup, Seafood Fried Canton, Buttered Chicken, Sweet and Sour Fish Fillet. They did not serve any recipe of beef and pork that night. What my kids enjoyed the most was the dessert: cakes of various flavors: Carrot Cake, Black Forest, and 3 other cakes which I didn’t get the name. And what I enjoyed was the White Wine. It was an opulent golden yellow in color- orange the most, which made me wonder why it was called a white wine ( Most white wine is produced from white grapes. I say most, because there are a few exceptions. Wine gets its color from letting the skins soak in the juice. Since this is the case, it is possible to make white wine out of black grapes by carefully extracting the juice and keeping the skins separated. Champagne is the most famous example. It is made from a blend of grapes.)

I studied the taste of each recipe. Each was superb. I am going to try to cook them soon. And of course, I am going to blog them. 

It was indeed a hearty meal and a happy bonding time for us. Here are our photos:

wacky can't wait for his share

owa enjoying his cake

quail soup

sweet and sour fish fillet

buttered chicken

seafood fried canton

cakes

chilled white wine

sauvignon blanc