Capisce?
I don't
Berts, Aeroin and I had dinner at Capisce Metrowalk. They've got a buffet for 385 bucks but it was really the oysters on display that made us enter the place. That, and the fact that it was 10pm and we hadnt had anything to eat the entire day, and every other place was either filled or noisy or too jologs-infested.
I think I'll go through every item I tried, because I can't muster much enthusiasm for the food.
Pumpkin Cream Soup - Commercially acceptable, but you can taste the flour / cornstarch they used to thicken the soup and that is never a good thing. Berta ordered this a la carte, and it came much better - with more milk/cream, a drizzle of pesto sauce, some bacon bits and croutons.
Oysters baked with Cheese and Spinach - Winner. The oysters were nice and juicy (for some reason they had 2 to 3 oysters to a shell). Nice spinach over it. Nicer toasty cheese over that. With a drizzle of butter to delight your gallbladder. Too bad everyone seems to know that this is the dish to get, as the oysters disappear as soon as they are placed on the buffet table.
Oysters in White Wine - Another winner. Juicy multiple oysters with a wine sauce that I couldn't help slurping off the shell.
Pesto Rice - Yummy. The rice was loose (how I like it) and coated in a slightly salty pesto mix. A bit oily though (I hope to God they used olive oil and not Minola)
Beef Tenderloin in some sort of Red Sauce - strangely sour. I kept sniffing my plate on the sly to make sure it wasnt spoiled. Tough meat.
Yellowtail in Marinara Sauce - Ok. the fish fillet was quite tender, and the sauce was not bad (a creamy sauce...isn't marinara red ba?)
Some red-sauced dried up penne dish - I can't describe this any more than that because I took a bite and decided to leave the rest untouched.
Potato Gratin - quite good with white sauce and a toasted cheese topping.
Panna Cotta - remember Cathedral Windows from Goldilocks? Well, imagine it with flour added. This sucked. Truly.
Pound cake - Dry, and ant infested (!)
Green Mango Shake - So-so. IMO not worth the money. Better get a coke nalang.
The ingredients of the food were ok...pero the cooking was may sablay. It was painfully obvious that they didn't have a chef who thought out the menu, dishes, and ingredients thoroughly.
The interiors are strangly not too bad, but it's got the usual wall treatment consisting of black and white prints of Italian / Mafia characters. That should have been a sign.
While eating we kept trying to analyse what sort of target market Capisce had. Ano nga ba? I sort of imagine the target market to be a couple who usually eat in fastfood restaurants, who are on their monthsary date. They'll go dine at Capisce before heading off to that noisy joint across Metrowalk Plaza. The one with the sleazy folk, the live bands, and the cheap drinks, where they will shake their booty (which would consist of lowcut jeans with strange fademarks on the thighs and ass, polyester blend skimpy top, and platforms for the women, and some hiphop attire or jeans and tight shirt and cap and earring for the men).
Sorry about the lait, I am really bwiset about the poor food. Don't go here unless you've got a thing for oysters and want to stuff yourself silly with them.
Side comment:
It was sweltering that night and I was amazed to see people in bonnets(!) I'm not sure if that's the right term, but you know what I mean? That skicap-like head topper made of sock material? What is wrong with these people, don't they think of how their heads will smell once they whip this fashion atrocity off???
Unventilated hair + Sweaty scalp + killer heat = Disaster.
There was this lady pa nga, fully made-up. Dangling earrings, skicap, shiny top, knitted shawl (!), long pants, and sandals? IMO, if you think it's cold enough to wear a head-warmer and a knitted shawl...shouldn't you wear closed shoes? Parang si Britney Spears in her skimpy minidresses and Ugg Boots. Labo.
Anyway, to me she looked like a manghuhula. Madame, pwede nyo hong basahin yung palm ko? Nayahahah.
I think I'll go through every item I tried, because I can't muster much enthusiasm for the food.
Pumpkin Cream Soup - Commercially acceptable, but you can taste the flour / cornstarch they used to thicken the soup and that is never a good thing. Berta ordered this a la carte, and it came much better - with more milk/cream, a drizzle of pesto sauce, some bacon bits and croutons.
Oysters baked with Cheese and Spinach - Winner. The oysters were nice and juicy (for some reason they had 2 to 3 oysters to a shell). Nice spinach over it. Nicer toasty cheese over that. With a drizzle of butter to delight your gallbladder. Too bad everyone seems to know that this is the dish to get, as the oysters disappear as soon as they are placed on the buffet table.
Oysters in White Wine - Another winner. Juicy multiple oysters with a wine sauce that I couldn't help slurping off the shell.
Pesto Rice - Yummy. The rice was loose (how I like it) and coated in a slightly salty pesto mix. A bit oily though (I hope to God they used olive oil and not Minola)
Beef Tenderloin in some sort of Red Sauce - strangely sour. I kept sniffing my plate on the sly to make sure it wasnt spoiled. Tough meat.
Yellowtail in Marinara Sauce - Ok. the fish fillet was quite tender, and the sauce was not bad (a creamy sauce...isn't marinara red ba?)
Some red-sauced dried up penne dish - I can't describe this any more than that because I took a bite and decided to leave the rest untouched.
Potato Gratin - quite good with white sauce and a toasted cheese topping.
Panna Cotta - remember Cathedral Windows from Goldilocks? Well, imagine it with flour added. This sucked. Truly.
Pound cake - Dry, and ant infested (!)
Green Mango Shake - So-so. IMO not worth the money. Better get a coke nalang.
The ingredients of the food were ok...pero the cooking was may sablay. It was painfully obvious that they didn't have a chef who thought out the menu, dishes, and ingredients thoroughly.
The interiors are strangly not too bad, but it's got the usual wall treatment consisting of black and white prints of Italian / Mafia characters. That should have been a sign.
While eating we kept trying to analyse what sort of target market Capisce had. Ano nga ba? I sort of imagine the target market to be a couple who usually eat in fastfood restaurants, who are on their monthsary date. They'll go dine at Capisce before heading off to that noisy joint across Metrowalk Plaza. The one with the sleazy folk, the live bands, and the cheap drinks, where they will shake their booty (which would consist of lowcut jeans with strange fademarks on the thighs and ass, polyester blend skimpy top, and platforms for the women, and some hiphop attire or jeans and tight shirt and cap and earring for the men).
Sorry about the lait, I am really bwiset about the poor food. Don't go here unless you've got a thing for oysters and want to stuff yourself silly with them.
Side comment:
It was sweltering that night and I was amazed to see people in bonnets(!) I'm not sure if that's the right term, but you know what I mean? That skicap-like head topper made of sock material? What is wrong with these people, don't they think of how their heads will smell once they whip this fashion atrocity off???
Unventilated hair + Sweaty scalp + killer heat = Disaster.
There was this lady pa nga, fully made-up. Dangling earrings, skicap, shiny top, knitted shawl (!), long pants, and sandals? IMO, if you think it's cold enough to wear a head-warmer and a knitted shawl...shouldn't you wear closed shoes? Parang si Britney Spears in her skimpy minidresses and Ugg Boots. Labo.
Anyway, to me she looked like a manghuhula. Madame, pwede nyo hong basahin yung palm ko? Nayahahah.
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