Believe it or not, this was our third visit to Tap Room @ Bamboo Hills in 6 months! :O Well, we love the vibes and ambience here, and the food and drinks, of course...and we always end up having a good time here! ;)
Let's see, our first visit to
Tap Room was just for snacks, desserts, coffees and beers as we already had a lavish premium beef lunch at
Kampai Yakiniku before that. For our second visit, we had a proper meal there, specifically their pizzas at
Pizza Duo, together with some nice starters from
Tap Room.
This round we tried a few more different appetisers from their
tapas menu starting with the
Grilled Eggplant @ RM24.80 featuring roasted eggplant with golden baby shrimps, lemon
aioli and sriracha sauce.
The lightly battered baby shrimps were nice and crispy eaten with the mildly sweet and earthy roasted eggplant pieces with a bit of crunch and freshness provided by the baby pink turnips and edible micro herbs. It was a delightful enough starter to start. ^_~
Next was this dish of
Roasted Cauliflower @ RM24.80 which consists of a whole roasted cauliflower with coconut flakes and served with either
pomodoro sauce or a
creamy sambal terasi. What you see here is the pomodoro sauce which is typically a tomato-based sauce (though we also requested for the creamy, slightly spicy sambal terasi later).
I was inspired to order this dish when I saw it on the menu coz I've always liked fried cauliflower at Indian restaurants + I was reminded of a cauliflower dish I similarly enjoyed at a
(now-closed) restaurant. This preparation is slightly different (of course)...the roasted (and softened) whole cauliflower had a sweet glaze over it almost like brown sugar (or gula melaka) and the toasted coconut flakes offered yet another layer of sweetness to it.
Just like our previous visit, we ordered a third starter to share, the
Ultimate Cheese Sandwich @ RM66.80 thinking to indulge again in the awesome pizzas we had so enjoyed on our last visit. But that derailed our intention dead in its track! :O Why, you ask? I thought I was ordering a third starter...and we were clearly not expecting such a humongous sandwich! O_o It certainly did not look anything like the portion size of the one in the menu.
Not only was the bread huge, they were thick as well (at least an inch thick), the ultimate cheese sandwich was filled with smoked duck, mushrooms, baby spinach, caramelised onions, cheddar, mozzarella and truffle oil. It was served with a side of garlic+honey+soy shoestring fries and a salad of baby spinach, cherry tomatoes and red turnip. Not that the sandwich wasn't good but we were so full (there were 4 slices and we each had one) we couldn't eat anything else let alone our initial plan of coming here to eat the pizzas we enjoyed so much on our last visit.
We were so stuffed we couldn't even eat dessert, so what do we do...we ordered more drinks (so this turned out to be more of a drinking session than an eating session)! :D There were
beers (
India Pale Ale @ RM28,
Pale Ale @ RM23 &
Happy Lager @ RM23), 3 glasses of
cocktails for RM85,
coffees of
Iced Caffe Latte @ RM16 and a
cold pressed juice of
Heart Health (Beetroot/Apple/Carrot/Ginger/Lemon) @ RM18. There was no better day to enjoy beers at a 68% discount than on the eve of the
National Day holidays when we were there! ^.^
My Personal Opinion
This third visit to Tap Room was a visit where we not only ate the least things (only 3 dishes) but also ate the least inspiring dishes. Not that they weren't any good...they were still decent just less impressive compared with what we had on our earlier two visits.
Their menu has so much variety that not every dish we pick will be outstanding. We got ourselves stuffed silly in the process...and maybe a little disappointed coz our original intention of coming here to partake in the pizzas we so enjoyed the last time was not met. But no regrets, we can only get to know how much we like a dish after trying, right? In the end, we enjoyed our drinking session...and our get-together chit chat session as always. ^_~
Tap Room
Unit P10-01 & P10-02 Bamboo Hills
Taman Bukit Bambu
Off Lebuhraya Duta-Ulu Kelang (DUKE)
51200 Kuala Lumpur
Next time order the pizzas first LOL! Of the three starters you had, I would love to have the Ultimate Cheese Sandwich, perhaps as my main meal. That portion size does not seem suitable as a starter, more like a main. Anyway I am sure you and your friends still enjoyed the whole experience (sans the original intention of pizzas) and I bet there will be a revisit. I like Tap Room too for the ambiance and overall feel though the menu can make me "rambang mata" due to the many (in fact too many LOL!) choices. I also hope to revisit because my brother and I have the pizzas in mind.
ReplyDeleteNot to put the whole blame on the menu, the cheese sandwich was rightfully not listed under starters...but just the photo of it did not seem like the actual size we got (especially in comparison to the button mushroom that was also in the photo)...lol! Oh, I can assure you that even you will not be able to finish this sandwich on your own as your main meal (challenge accepted?) :D I hope you and your brother make it back here to try the pizzas...as we would too. ^_~ We're a difficult lot to please, too few choices and we complain not enough choices...too many and we can't decide...hah..hah.
DeleteOh. Rmb? Photos are just for illustration purposes, they already warn us haha. Correct me if I am wrong, so Tap Room is a place that houses several restaurants and cafes such as Pizza Duo, etc, am I right? Or they are an entity that resembles Marche? And yes, I always love a makan session at a place with its feel good and positive vibes, that is why I always like to go Changi Airport to have my meals cos people traveling usually can see the lighter side of life and have good vibes hee hee. Nonetheless, am glad that you and your friends still enjoyed the third visit though you all feel stuffed cos sometimes it is not the food but it is the company that counts (**blink blink**).
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