Xiaoville: Dinner at Gordon Grill Restaurant

I just came back from dinner together with my mum and sis. We had planned to go Crystal Jade Kitchen restaurant at Scotts, so i took CTE to town..but my sister told me i could avoid the ERP charges if i turned towards Newton after exiting from Cairnhills. So i did and we drove past Goodwood Park Hotel. Thats when it all started. My sister had heard about Goodwood Park Hotel serving good Kobe Beef Steak, so we decided to change our plans and eat at Goodwood Park Hotel instead.

We didn't manage to find any restaurant serving Kobe Beef so we enquired from the hotel receptionist. She directed us to Gordon Grill Restaurant. It was a posh restaurant, fine dining...i was lucky there wasn't any dress code as i was dressed rather casually in bermudas and t-shirt. When we looked in the menu, we couldn't find any Kobe Beef..instead they served Wagyu beef. We were told the origination was the same..Wagyu is from Australia but originated from Japan..only that the Kobe beef was of higher grade.

My mum ordered the set meal which came with 4 appetisers, one main course and dessert. Cost: $108. The appetisers were good, there was smoked salmon, frog legs, escargots and some sort of crab roll. My sis ordered the Rib-Eye steak while i ordered the tenderloin steak..each 10grams cost $2.80. They sliced it and weigh in front of us on their trolley of theirs..hers weight 280grams while mine was 310grams. The price turned out to be mind-boggling for us. I do not know how they actually calculated but hers cost $129 while mine cost $139...it turned out to be the most expensive steak i've ever eaten haha..it was nice...but not the best i guess.

And i realised that this restaurant had a practice, they will always serve the ladies first. No matter what they do, clear plates, refill ice water, take down order or serve our food...i'll always be the last one to get it. The waiter started by clearing my sister's plate...and he walked one big round around the table just to clear my mum's plate first before he tend to me haha. I'm not sure if its the same for all fine dining restaurants, I'm not complaining..just an interesting observation of mine.

Anyway people if you ever feel rich and hungry, do give this nice restaurant a visit. The service is excellent, the food good and the ambience posh. The bill turned out to be over $400! Poor sis picked up the tab because she just got her 1st pay check. Anyway its her fault in the first place that we ended up there haha...if she didn't want me to avoid the ERP, i wouldn't have drove past Goodwood Park and she wouldn't have remembered that they serve good Kobe steak..and we'll probably have filled our stomaches with Crystal Jade Kitchen's food instead..at a cost of only $50-$70? Haha