Macalister Mansion ~ Dining Room

I recently had the opportunity to visit Macalister Mansion's Dining Room restaurant. It's suppose to be Penang's fine dining French restaurant. Thus my very enthusiasm to find out how the food is, there.

They only serve dinner... hence the same of the restaurant.

I went there last month and it was for a work function

Here's what we had.

For starters, they served mini croissants with tuna and caviar, a dinner roll and treats.

 

 

Drinks was mango juice or was it orange juice... and plain water :)

 

The first course was the salad.. This was so interesting. Even the presentation of the dish was so elegant.
It was raw salmon, with raspberry jelly at the bottom shaped like a red moon. It came with the tossed salad encircled in a ring of cracker. I liked this very much!

 

 

 

Second course was the seafood soup. It was supposed to be ?seabass soup with crab...Before it reached our table, I could smell this as it was coming out of the kitchen. It certainly smelled like Hokkien Mee... that prawn-ny! This was the least favourite of mine. It came with croutons and in the top right corner of the soup bowl (pic), it's the crab meat in cream. 

This is the palate cleanser. Mango sorbet.

Next off is the Main Course. Cod fish!!

 This was a generously thick piece of cod fish! It was tasty and simply delicious! It was topped off with caviar.

As you can see, I clearly cleaned off my plate! hehehe

Then it was time for desserts...
An edible bowl made of chocolate, filled with ice-cream, caramel crisp, nuts, and edible flowers... You have to eat it with a bit of everything to taste the completeness of the dessert. I was blown away with the presentation :))

Lastly, they served petit four... comprising of the famour macaroon, a fruit tart, chocolate, and a biscuit with fruit. Simple and effective...

 

 

 

I was so so happy that night. The dinner was simply divine... hahaha...
 

Macalister Mansion

 

 Tucked away in the heart of town amongst the hustle and bustle of city life, is a pretty white mansion very nicely decorated and covered in a rich coat of white paint.
This is Macalister Mansion located on (needless to say) Macalister Road.
It's just next to new wing of  Loh Guan Lye specialist hospital.

 Once you step, in it feels like a totally different place. It feels like home. This is the Living Room. No, it's not the living room of your house. The name of the restaurant is called the Living Room; which of course tries to simulate a home living-room environment :)

 

Notice the cleverly drawn and painted mural of a fire-place in the wall... And book-racks with cat drawings too... NICE!  Love the 'all-white' concept. It gives the room a wide and spacious effect. Yes, white tends to do that to a room. The simple yet effective decor like hanging plants and lamp shades are accented in comparison to the white walls.

Okay, enough of the ambiance. Down to the food.

 It seems to me, the main theme colour in the Living Room is White and Green accents... menu cover is green, menu bow is green, place mate has lime-green motives. NICE!

 The Living Room offers set lunches called Express Lunch from 12pm till 3pm at RM45 ++ as well as ala chart choices. The some set lunch selection has additional charges to the RM45++, so be watchful of what you're ordering.

 Needless to say, I ordered the set lunch.
First course was the soup of the day ~ Mushroom soup with dark, crouton. Dunno why they roasted the crouton till it's this colour... (pic below)

Soup was okay. Alittle wattered down for my liking. But still tasty.

 Choice of coffee or tea. Mind you, although they sell TWG teas, the one that comes with the set is not from TWG.

My main course was the Chicken breast with mash potato (sorry can't remember exactly the name of this dish). I must say, I was worried the chicken breast would taste tough and fibrous. But to my pleasant surprise, it was moist and tender, not to mention tasty and juicy!!! The most difficult part of the chicken to marinate and make juicy, the Living Room chef managed to do just that!!! Impressed!

 

The crumbly beige pieces you see on the right side of my plate is actually cauliflower diced. This was not expected, but something new... Loved the potato mash below. And see the dark sauce beneath everything else? That's a sauce made from olive oil... or at least that's what I heard from the waiter, if I heard it correctly... ahah. That, my fellow readers made the whole dish super tasty... I can't quite describe it.. It's just YUM!

 My friend ordered the angel hair spaghetti with I think it was seafood (I might be wrong). She says it's was okay :))

Finally, desserts...
The dessert of the say was this lovely moist coffee-cake! I called it coffee cake because it had a hint of tiramisu, but it's not tiramisu. And has alcohol in it. Again, the waiter did say the name of the cake, but it escapes me... (sorry). What I remember is the crunchy caramel coated walnuts or pecan nuts on top. And the yummy sponge cake which was soaked in alcohol... maybe rum..and...mascarpone. It was simply heavenly... hahah

Find out more about the Living Room at
www.macalistermansion.com/