Criollo Cocoa Cafe @ Orchard Getaway

Met my hubby for shopping at 313 Somerset on Friday and had dinner at Criollo Cocoa Cafe. 

The cafe was tucked away in a quiet corner at level 2 of Orchard Gateway with great view of the street.

The menu:

They have decent selection of food and drink.

We ordered two set main courses, hubby got the Mixed Grilled Platter (S$19.90) that consist Grilled chicken, bacon and chorizo sausage, served with truffle fries and salsa sauce, and a drink (he picked Sprite).

As for me, I got the Grilled Chicken Chop (S$15.90) in brown sauce, served with truffle fries and mixed greens and a drink Hot Cocoa (S$6.50).

so cute!

Overall, prices are cheap and worth a visit.

Ambush @ Jem

Headed over to Ambush for dinner with my stepson and brother-in-law at Jem Shopping Centre. Reached at about 7:30pm on a Monday night and there wasn't a queue. Got served to our seat right away.

Ambush is a restaurant that serves casual European cuisines. Its located on the 4th floor of Jem Shopping Centre.

The food menu is presented in a form newspaper format with four full pages of the food.

We placed our orders and serving was within 20 minutes time.

My brother-in-law ordered Chicken Schnitzel (S$17.50), a deep fried breaded chicken breast served with creamy sauce mushroom sauce, sauerkraut & fries. According to my brother-in-law, the deep fried chicken breast was so hard to cut it off. Was quite disappointed...

My stepson had the Italian Pasta Mixed Seafood (medley of prawns, white clams & mussels) with Marinara Sauce (S$12.80) and he love it as pasta is always his favorite dishes.

For the pasta, you could choose the type of pasta you wanted - spaghetti, linguine or penne. My stepson chose linguine as spaghetti was run out of stock that night.

I got myself a Filet De Saumon En Croute De Sesame (S$17.80). The salmon was rather dry still reasonably tasty, nothing extraordinary.

Overall, not a decent dining experience. The service staff was friendly but we took a very long time to attract their attention to order the food and pay the bill.