After being disappointed of dining in Kitchenette Thamrin branch in my first visit, I came again with my friends to have dinner, but this time it's Central Park branch. This branch has a unique building construction, as the place is combined with Pizza E Birra and surrounded by pool.
Well, I and my friends totally had a different menu that day and tend to avoid to order the dishes we had in our first visit. Thus, we had chose their mains over galettes and Spanish tapas instead of salad. We ate croquette with chorizo and ratatouille, baked mushroom with cream sauce as appetizer followed by wild salmon, half roast chicken, pesto chicken spaghetti, carbonara pasta and lastly, grilled octopus. As we are fans of tea, we decided to have 5 different flavours of premium tea; Moroccan mint, sencha tea, grand wedding, passion fruit and creme caramel tea.
The Spanish croquette, consisted of three balls of deep fried potato croquette with gooey cheese filling on top of big lettuce with a sprinkle of ratatouille and chorizo accompanied by a small bowl of chili sauce. Yea, it's only a sprinkle which I wished they put more in the dish. The chili sauce was mild and sweet, typical thai chili sauce. The other appetizer, the baked mushroom has a nice creamy sauce, but the taste was rather contradicted. I think it might be due to the thickness of the cream sauce that overpowered the mushroom; unlike the mushroom cream soup that has a well balance flavour with lighter texture. Despite of that, I like the cream sauce standalone.
My main dish, half roast chicken, served with garlic herb butter, salad and baked potato. Unlike any other baked potato that is usually unpeeled, wrapped with aluminium foil and topped with cold butter, Kitchenette rendition was resemblance to lasagna. Thinly sliced potato and stacked with cream spread on each layer and some cheese on top to create a nice golden brown colour. It was good, but unfortunately, it's too small (at least for me). The chicken itself was marinated and well seasoned. Strangely, the dish had a kind of "tongseng" smell; the Indonesian dish with santan soup base that usually has mutton and shredded cabbage and tomato as the main ingredient. I was wondering what herbs that enhanced that good aroma. I couldn't finish it despite of the good taste and let my guy friend took care half of it.
As one of their recommended dish, the grilled octopus was well executed. The octopus was cooked perfectly and got a nice charred flavour. It has a unique texture as I bit the tentacle. It was a new experience for me to eat a big octopus as I have only ever had their babies that Japanese restaurants usually have as an appetizer. The last meaty dish, wild salmon with cream sauce, served with sauteed long beans and roast potato was disappointing. It's tagged as a new dish served there and I think they haven't got ahead of it. It had fishy smell; nothing to brag about.
For pasta dishes, both carbonara and pesto chicken sauce were excellent. However, I slightly scored the pesto higher than carbonara as it had basil smell but in a good way, it was well seasoned and not too creamy. Another reason, many restaurants can serve carbonara pasta at the same yummy level. Thus, the pesto chicken spaghetti indeed deserves to be their signature dishes.
Most of us agreed that the pesto chicken spaghetti was the dish of the day. Other than the dish, we enjoyed our catching up as they have a friendly ambiance and cozy place to hold us for long hours.
Kitchenette
Central Park Mall
Tribeca Park
021- 2920 0260
http://www.ismaya.com/micro/read/kitchenette
Monday - Sunday
10.00 - 22.00
