Birthday Bash @ PrEgO
August 16th, 2008 -- Posted in birthdays | No Comments »It’s Sunsun’s birthday. I wanted to plan a lil birthday celebration at a cozy place with healthy bites so I picked Alligator Pear as the dining venue for the evening.
It was a mistake.
While the official Fairmont website clearly stated “Dinner: Daily – 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm”, they actually don’t serve food after 6pm. WTF?!! It’s not that we didn’t call beforehand. I called for dinner reservation and the Fairmont operator told me we can’t make reservation as it’s a walk-in restaurant. I’ve no problem with that so I simply thanked the operator and hung up. We only found out when my sister turned up earlier and was told by the waiter that the pool-side-restaurant-filled-with-drenched swimmers-from-the-pool-next-to-the-eatery does not serve food after 6pm. WHAT??!! Why didn’t the operator inform me they don’t serve dinner in the first place? Also, why wasn’t the website updated?
What kind of 5-star exclusivity is this?
Anyway, we settled at Prego located on the ground floor of The Fairmont.
Not a bad place for a birthday dinner with family or friends. We were lucky enough to get a table on a Friday evening, despite the face that the baldy waiter hated me (... bumped my head with a plate and got my order wrong).
Salads and soups for starters. I love the cream of chickpea soup. Thick and yummy.
I ordered pork belly but the waiter got me cod instead. He was apologetic for the wrong order and let me have the cod free of charge while he hurried my order of the pork belly. Great thanks to him, I almost finished the cod and couldn’t eat the pork belly when it arrived.
Some kind of nice birthday surprise… A few tables away, another birthday song was sung heartily by a crew of waiters and waitresses. That totally gave away the surprise factor when Sunsun’s birthday cake came 5 mins later.
It was a nice mango cake, nevertheless. The fruity-rich upper has a nice sour aftertaste to the slightly sweetened sponge and light cream inners. All thanks to Becky, who helped me get the cake in the midst of her busy work schedule.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MiMEOW!! 
