Restaurant Review: HOME dining café & gallery

Cute little Peaceful Restaurant…

 

During my winter break, my friend, Moe and I went to a restaurant called HOME dining café & gallery. Although this is located in the Omotesando, when you turn this small road, you will be in a different kind of atmosphere where you can feel that is more quiet, and peaceful. At first, you may be little confused where the restaurant is because it is hiding by some trees. However, if you find it, you will notice how the place is very relaxing. When you stand in front of the entrance, you will first notice with the signs they have and then you will see a small narrowed street where you will walk down to the door. When I was walking down to the entrance, I had the feeling both of excitement and curiousness. When you are at the door, you will be opened by a very polite waiter with his smile saying “welcome”.

                                

When we went in the restaurant, I was little surprise that they had the seats not only inside of the restaurant but also outside. Even though we chose to be seated in inside, I was able to see that outside had more seats than inside the restaurant and they were all covered with greenhouse-like plastic house in order to be warm. Another thing that I liked about the appearance was that they had the decoration as a Christmas season. It was very nice and it was very comfortable to stay there.

Soon after we chose our seats and sat down, the waitress came and served us some water and the menus. They also served us a welcome drink, which was a plum juice. I thought that was very polite and made us feel very special.

After that, Moe and I ordered our lunch meals. While she ordered the Steak Hamburg plate with rice, I ordered the Boiled Seafood Cream Pasta. Our dishes arrived around 5minuites after taking the order. When I first got my dish, I notice some steam coming out from the pasta, telling me that it was just made by the chef. When I put the pasta into my mouth, the pasta was in perfect temperature, making it feel very creamy in a very good way. Also the seafoods they used were in perfect blend with the creamy pasta. When I taste this, only one word came into my mind and that was, delicious. The salad was fresh and the dressing was great. The bread was very crispy and crunchy, and it was perfect with the creamy pasta’s sauce. Moe also liked her meal, especially the hamburg, and said that she had a great time eating it.    

 

Overall, I would rate this restaurant as a wonderful. I thought that the appearance, the service, the atmosphere, the meals, the whole restaurant was perfect. We really enjoyed eating our lunch there, and had some relaxing, comfortable time at this peaceful restaurant. I hope that I could go there again and would like to recommend this restaurant to my other friends :)

Restaurant Review (Visual)

Now moving on to video review.

This review is focused on a restaurant called “Little Shin Shin Resaurant” which serves Chinese (including Szechuan, Hunan and Mandarin) cuisines in Oakland, California. Throughout this video, the manager of this restaurant introduces and explains about the restaurant and shows the foods that they serve. I thought featuring a restaurant staff in a video was helpful when providing useful information about the restaurant.

He says that Little Shin Shin Restaurant was nominated as a best Chinese restaurant in the city of Oakland. They are not only making the foods very tasty and healthy but they are always taking very good care with the customers so that they could eat their food with enjoyment. From this video I could see that all the reviewers like this restaurant and have some their favorite meals to recommend.

After watching this video, I thought I wanted to go there and eat their dishes (if I am able to…lol). It looked delicious and healthy,and it made me want to try the dishes that reviewers recommended in this video!

 

Watch it if you are interested in it!

 

And that’s it for today! Thanks!

Restaurant Review (Written)

Hello everyone! And Happy New Year!! Its already 2015! Can’t believe it! I thought 2014 has just begun but it’s over and now we have to move on to 2015… Do you guys have any big goals for 2015? Well for me, I am still thinking about it…lol

Anyways, for the first posting for this year is about the restaurant reviewing. We were assigned to read a restaurant review from an article written by the professionals and we had to analyze it. We were also needed to watch a video clip that is also about the restaurant reviewing except it was very different restaurant.

My group was given an article called Dirty French on the Lower East Side.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/dining/restaurant-review-dirty-french-on-the-lower-east-side.html?ref=dining

 

As you could see from the title of this article, the reviewer went to the restaurant called Dirty French which serves, of course, French cuisine. For physical surroundings, he says that there are two eight-foot-high neon signs in the color of pink. Since this is located inside the hotel called Ludlow Hotel, it is decorated with a few cheap items, like “a wall-length antique carnival mirror shipped from France.” Although he didn’t really talk about the waiters and waitresses, but he briefly explained that the mood is created when the server comes to them and says in a tone of “laid-back tone that anyone can manage.”

 He discussed different kind of dishes that he got and explained it with details. For example, he says that the dish called the mille-feuille is “a technical showstopper.” He described it like this: “an accordion of ribbon-thin king trumpet mushroom stems folded over and over. “ He says that it is a disorienting dish that will make our head spin in a good way because when he drag pastry-like food into a pool of green curry, he says that the dishes will change it into like Thailand.

He did not only discuss how the dishes were good but also he picks out some of the chef’s food that tripped into a wrong way and tasted it to excessive. He also gives some advice and suggests some new dishes in order to be a better restaurant.

In the end of this article, he says that this restaurant needs more time to grow its ideas if they are going to open three new original restaurants while refining their restaurant that they have right now.

I thought this was interesting to read and now I learned that how people review on the restaurants.