One of several company dinners over the sales meeting was at Esmirada at Chijmes. Now, I have eaten there before but wasn’t impressed by the food so it wouldn’t have been my choice of venue had I been the one to choose.
But since I didn’t have a say in the decision (which really is an all important decision ‘cos everything concerning food is important) I had to go along with it.
This was just a department dinner involving all our overseas colleagues in this department. There were about 40 of us seated at this extremely long table made up my joining about 10-11 tables. And speaking of dining furniture, I don’t know why Esmirada has such heavy chairs. One can barely move the chair to sit in it! It’s ridiculous.
The food we had was very forgettable. Garlic bread, garden salad, grilled mushrooms, baked potato with sour cream, a piece of grilled fish, grilled chicken and grilled beef. Dessert was a slice of tiramisu. That was the only good part of the meal. I must say the tiramisu there is one of the best I’ve had in Sin, gapore. Other than that, I think even I (the undomestic goddess) could have come up with something better.
The damage for the night came up to a whopping $5000. The wine was the one which did the most damage. The house wine was very expensive at $98+++/bottle. Other wines were of course way above that. We had a couple of Merlots and Cabernet Sauvignons from Australia. I guess it’s a good thing that our division made the most profits for the company last year!
In any case, I think Esmirada is alright to go to for drinks, but definitely not a place to go to for food.