Afternoon Tea & Sunday Roast Luncheon @ The Entrance Hall Lounge, The Ritz-Carlton, Kuala Lumpur

Weekends are meant to live on lazy decadent breaks together with then nosotros experience charged upwards to hitting Mon alongside a vengeance. One house to savour the skillful life is at The Ritz-Carlton, Kuala Lumpur. Dining may live on express to few choices hither but when it comes to making things count, the people at The Ritz-Carlton definitely know how to seat on a masterpiece of a meal, making yous dream upwards plans to pass the whole weekend here.

Located just on the the world floor is the Lobby Lounge where yous instruct to intermission the monotony of the daily life (except Sundays) alongside their afternoon tea intermission from 3-5pm. It's a swell house to relax together with chill out peculiarly if yous rather induce got a quieter approach. Imagine soothing harp music, tinkling teacups, together with catching upwards alongside the gossip at this cosy setting. Definitely the grand life that makes yous wanna intermission out inwards vocal together with sing...Summertime past times George Gershwin from Porgy together with Bess...."summertime, together with the living is easy..."





Unlike the to a greater extent than bustling Dominicus Roast Lunch, teatime hither is a quieter affair. Once yous sink downward inwards your comfy highback chairs (or the sofa), yous instruct to pick out your alternative of tea from a trolley. There's near forty choices from the fine tea-merchant Ronnefeldt - fruit, green, dark together with fifty-fifty herbal ones. Splashie Boy is partial towards the to a greater extent than aromatic fruit teas so his alternative is a ladylike pinkish Raspberry fruit tea piece mine is a robust vanilla dark tea, a favourite of mine e'er since I discovered this inwards Republic of Mauritius (they're crazy near vanilla at that topographic point together with fifty-fifty the airline serves it). 





The tea is brewed inwards private Narumi os china teapots that are placed on altitude of a warmer. You tin dismiss inquire for the tea to live on topped upwards alongside hot H2O that is placed inwards a tea samovar at the front end of the restaurant. After waiting a while, yous instruct served a 3 tier stand upwards total of goodies.




Work your agency downward similar Hansel together with Gretel next a breadstuff path from the savouries, scones together with ending alongside the sugariness chocolate treats at the end. It is the best e'er nutrient discovery. The scones are freshly baked together with gorgeously light. You're served alongside shot spectacles of spun white clouds of whipped cream (it's likewise soft to live on the heavy dense clotted cream I used to brand it Devon) for yous to slather on your scones. There is also a choice of 3 mini jams from Bonne Maman - raspberry together with strawberry preserves addition bitter orangish marmalade. I beloved the savoury treats likewise - the wafer sparse cucumber slices pressed betwixt white bread, the decadent smoked salmon pieces artfully curled on the piece of bread, the discreet dab of chutney on the brie together with ham bites, beef bacon quiches alongside a lite airy crust. However my favourite childhood 2nd were the mini chicken pies. Topped alongside a puff pastry hat, these teeny weeny pies had a creamy chicken filling alongside mixed vegetables, only similar those gigantic ones nosotros used to instruct at Jaya Supermarket's bakery.



Reaching the 3rd layer was a irksome together with steady trail, I wasn't likewise enthusiastic near the fruit tartlets fifty-fifty though they hold off together with then pretty alongside the edible gilt leafage since the tart crust was a wee flake likewise hard. Neither was I game for the brilliant pinkish strawberry cream piped inside my chocolate eclairs but I loved the lite every bit air mango cheesecake. Surrounded past times nighttime chocolate pieces, I savoured each seize alongside teeth of the cheesecake on altitude of each bittersweet chocolate piece. I left the brownie till the terminate every bit it looked dense but a seize alongside teeth at the bottom revealed a surprise respect - pecans! A lilliputian on the sugariness side, it was all the same really skillful peculiarly alongside the raspberry mousse topping. For to a greater extent than pictures on the afternoon tea, run across the Flickr set.




If afternoon tea is non your cuppa of choice, brand agency instead for their Dominicus Roast Lunch that is filled alongside all the skillful things inwards life. There's of course, the customary Prime Rib - a huge hunk of meat that is sliced together with served alongside really traditional Yorkshire pudding together with of course, lashings of gravy. Various choices similar roast lamb together with a lovely salmon kedgeree en croute (wrapped inwards puff pastry) is also available.



The selection of items hither may live on smaller than other hotel buffets. However, the Ritz-Carlton emphasises on lineament ingredients so yous volition respect everything is exquisite correct downward to your ala-minute tossed Caesar Salad. It's a deluxe version every bit non alone is it tossed inwards a scraped Parmesan cheese wheel, they grate bottarga (cured fish roe) together with adorn your dressed greens alongside dark truffles. 




There's also artisan French Echire butter, ranked every bit i of the best butters inwards France, fin de Claire oysters shucked for yous upon asking together with the listing continues. I liked how the nutrient is artfully presented peculiarly the principal appetisers - all tucked inwards beautiful jewellery boxes. Even the diverse terrines come upwards alongside landscapes of their ain crafted from gelatine, pinkish peppercorns, star anise together with micro herbs. Incidentally, the terrines are also divine - the salmon i has a dark caviar heart, at that topographic point are only about alongside a scallop one, filled alongside rich umami-tasting mushrooms together with etc. One to a greater extent than particular yous should non missy on the appetizer tabular array is this discreet looking foie gras, portobello mushroom together with rocket ensemble - melts inwards the mouth with a flare-up of flavours balanced out alongside the slightly peppery rocket leaf.  



You also instruct a selection of Japanese appetisers on the side. There's an assorted sashimi, diverse types of makis together with sushis. There's fifty-fifty deep fried fish together with a colourful selection of fish eggs. Adjacent to the Japanese table, yous volition respect a whole smoked salmon alongside all the tangy dips.


Leave room for desserts every bit they are all divine too. A magnificent tower of profiteroles inwards a degree of a croquembouche induce got middle phase hither inwards front end of an amazing wall of colourful macarons together with cookies.


There are fifty-fifty chocolate displays to tempt yous with  beautifully formed truffles, chocolate bars together with a chocolate fountain. Dip the fresh fruits, marshamallows inwards the flowing chocolate or if yous prefer at that topographic point are fifty-fifty pre-dipped strawberries on the side, all prepped ahead for you.


I beloved the chocolate tart shaped similar a boat that is filled alongside juicy fresh fruits. They're given an added elegance alongside edible gilt foil. The lemon meringue pie comes alongside a tall fluffy meringue crown that balances out the slightly tart lemony taste.




Cheese lovers tin dismiss zoom inwards on their cheese tabular array filled alongside a skillful multifariousness of difficult together with soft cheeses - bries, bleu cheese, camemberts, cheddar, goats cheese together with etc. Dried fruits together with fresh grapes are also available on the side for yous to savour your cheese.  




Just a give-and-take on the mains, yous induce got a alternative that to pick from roast beef, roast lamb or the salmon en croute dish that volition live on served to your table. The salmon en croute is a magnificent looking dish inwards its frail puff pastry compaction alongside the soft yellowish rice mixed alongside difficult boiled eggs every bit the salmon was cooked perfectly.


You volition respect yourself spoiled for choices here. There's also a trio of musicians to entertain the guests. For a whole lot to a greater extent than pictures, run across my Flickr set.




Ah, weekends...aren't they wonderful? Two days of beak bliss to practise whatsoever yous please....eat wherever yous fancy. So how practise yous indulge during the weekend? Cook at dwelling or only swallow out at the places yous wishing to try. Do percentage your experiences.

The Lobby Lounge
The Ritz-Carlton Kuala Lumpur
168, Jalan Imbi
Kuala Lumpur

Tel: 03-2142 8000


(Pork free. Afternoon tea is available daily from 3-5pm except Sundays for RM68++ per person. Champagne afternoon tea is also available where yous volition live on served a flute of Laurent-Perrier Champagne alongside the three-tier selection together with tea for RM150++ per person. Sunday Roast Lunch is available from 11.30am to 3pm, every Sunday. It is priced at RM130++. For to a greater extent than pictures on The Ritz-Carlton's other dining offers, run across my collection of pictures.)

*Notice: The reviewer declares that the Dominicus Roast lunch review was past times invitation from the restaurant. The afternoon tea was paid for past times the reviewer.

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