A truly “Prestige Platinum” fine dining at Lafite - Part 4 (Starters, Plates, Dessert & Surprise)

An UntoldCityLife.com TasteBud’s Review by Xiao Loong Zi

Overall taste bud: Impressively 5 stars from UntodCityLife.com (A strong upgrade recommendation from Xiao Loong Zi)

Lafite, Shangri-La Hotel Kuala Lumpur
11 Jalan Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur
Phone: 03-2074 3900 / 03-2032 2388
Fax: 03-2070 1514
Email: slkl@shangri-la.com

“Astonishing really! Bravo to his chef de cuisine, Kevin Cherkas and the most glamorous & stylishly restaurant in town - Lafite! Your superb culinary skills and novel fusion concepts in contemporary fine dining have stonkingly impressed me this year again.” said Xiao Loong Zi

In my previous post, “A truly “Prestige Platinum” fine dining at Lafite - Part 3 (Pre-Starters) “, I shared with readers the special drinks, wines and breads from Lafite. Today, I am going to unveil the “The Beginning” (The Starters), “Plates” (The Main Courses), Dessert and the “Surprise” that me and my friends had tried.

“The Beginning”

Prawn

Prawn “Guacamole” - RM29

A unique starter created in that week by Chef Kevin Cherkas. It was made up of 3 fresh hot prawns placed on top of specially made red sauce in the small circle outlined by the white sauce. A fine piece of dry sotong-like bisque cracker was placed on top of the prawns so that you have to eat it before you can have the prawns :). The most amazing thing was the spoon of ice-avocado that can melt, cool, and refresh your throat which created me a wonderful rejoice dinner mood in the beginning. Thus, I was told by the waiter to finish the ice-avocado before enoying the rest. The freshly-juiced from the hot prawns when I bitten, burst into my taste buds warmly, and I could feel the chemical-like reaction melting inside my mouth with the extraordinary sensational & awesome tastes.

“Truffled” Salmon Carbonara - RM42

On a square flat metal plate, the foundation of this starter was made up of a very rare and fine thin layer of smoked salmon. Because the smoked salmon was so fine and thin like a piece of paper, it melt so easily with your saliva, immediately sending the bursting effects onto your tongue tasting the rare smoked salmon. On top of the smoked salmon was the spaghetti with green beans and decorative white sauces in surrounding. To our surprise, the spaghetti was unlike normal wheat spaghetti but it was made from potato. It tasted cold with the creamy white sauce. What is more artistic was the crispy yolk on top of the spaghetti that was fried with thin layer of flour and it was so yummy.

“Plates”

Cod Romesco

Cod Romesco - RM98

A slow cooked fresh cod fish full of moisturized fish-juice: fish oil, and naturally textured white meat in an amazing red garlic cream sauce is a wonderful precious dish for seafood lover to enjoy. You would also be able to notice that green leeks were used to create delicate and sweeter flavor without overpowering other flavors. I mean, I could still taste the fried scallops, baby carrots and crushed almond in original tastes. And my tongue was pampered so much with different types of amazing juices produced in this plate. I love to suck the moisturized white meat of cod fish to taste it’s juicy fish oil and sauce. It was even better to chill it with my glass of house white wine. On top of the cod fish were two decorative long bean made circled as rings and were fried so that it tasted very crispy.

Duck Duck Goose

Duck Duck Goose - RM95

The sliced marinated roast duck was cooked inside while half-cooked outside with great aroma smell of the duck meat. The way on how it was carefully prepared must be sophisticated in view to bring up it’s unusual taste. It is in fact a very unique plate that can beat off a lot of competitors of Duck Duck Goose.

“Dessert”

Chocolate moose cake

Chocolate Moose Cake with an unidentified exotic fruit

This piece of cake was not available on the menu but it was freshly made on the day itself due to special request. A 24-hour advance-booking is required to enjoy this piece of cake. Everything in Lafite is so fine and so precious that can’t find it in anywhere else. This Chocolate Moose Cake with the finest chocolate ingredients can beat a lot of pastry brands including Secret Recipe in the Chocolate Cake Category. Two small slices were served, one for me and one for my friend, the rest wrapped into a beautiful box to bring it home.

Chocolate Moose Cake 2

The Chocolate Moose Cake brought to home

Chocolate Moose Cake

The Chocolate Moose Cake wrapped nicely in a box

The “Surprise”

The surprise

A Winter Raspberry Cotton Flower Chocolate Tree

It was a complimentary “surprise” served at the end of our meal. My friend was so happy to see this tree. It was a pot of plastic tree with raspberry cotton as flowers that can be eaten, the leafs fall on the soil were made of chocolate and the soil were full of cocoa beans. Because the cotton flowers were made of sugar and can be oxidated easily, it seemed like it was snowing.

The Bill

2 Evian RM34.00

1 Prawn Guacamole RM29.00

1 Salmon Carbonara RM42.00

1 Cod Romesco RM98.00

1 Duck Duck Rose RM95.00

2 Glasses of White House Wine Complimentary

1 Box of Chocolate Moose Cake Complimentary

Subtotal RM298.00

20% off due to Prestige Platinum Card -RM52.80

10% Service Charge RM24.52

5% Govt Tax RM12.26