Headed to Tony Roma's partly because of the voucher I had, 25% off the St Louis Style Ribs over weekends. 30% off on weekdays. I'm not quite a fan of ribs because the meat's usually measly with the bones forming most part of the dish and being the ultimate carnivore, the ribs hardly satisfy. I've only attempted ribs at Billy Bombers and the occasional Cold Storage takeaway, yes those in contrast are ghastly over salty and leaves this leftover taste in your mouth.
Table setting, fuss free for the messy eating that'll begin!
Complimentary warm baguette with herb butter. I like the herb butter, slight hint of garlic.
The Roma Feast ($58), Carolina Honey Ribs served with BBQ Chicken, special sausage, corn on the cob and coleslaw
In true American style, the combo sets came looking so mighty and huge. The BBQ chicken's too tender, not much of a taste. I love the corn on the cobs best! The corn's sweet and not overcooked, it's thoughtful that it came with sticks for you to gnaw on.
St Louis Style Ribs, Full Slab ($31.90) Blue Ridge Smokies Smokey flavour ribs combined with sweet molasses. Sides of ranch style beans and french fries
This was what I came for! The flavouring's towards the sweet side, could've been the sweet molasses used to season it. Meaty ribs, the meat was quite easily pulled off. I found the meat on the bland side towards the centre of the rib rack, they were tastier at the edges.
Ranch beans tasted quite good, infused with Indian herbs hence the unique taste about it.
The Ocean Feast ($58), Crispy Fish fillet, fried shrimps and calamari rings served with crab sticks and potato salad
Basically a fried combo, I majorly loved the potato salad. It came with three different sauces which more or less masked the taste of the fried food. The shrimps were artificially crunchy, fish was just alright.
Apple Crisp ($10.90) Tangy Johnathan apples baked with yummy crumb topping and covered in vanilla ice-cream and caramel sauce
I was surprised by this. Pretty good! Not just an apple dessert, the diced apples were juicy and crunchy, together with granola chunks and finally the ice-cream with partially solidified caramel. I went to dessert heaven almost immediately. Arguably one of the more impressive desserts from a restaurant!
Service is friendly and helpful but will be better if we didn't have to keep asking waiters to take our order. Seems like servers and waiters are separate, a server can't take the order. Food wise, pretty decent ribs..not the best somehow. The dessert's worth the while no matter how stuffed. :) Oh, doesn't hurt that it's just by the koi pond and has a glass house concept.
Tony Roma's
Basement
Near Spinelli's (used to be cedele)
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