Click here for earlier entry on Bibitus (January 14).
Hickory-smoked anchovies with cream cheese & lemon butter sauce on organic rye & molasses toast. Salty, smoky and slimy, but it worked very well as a melt-in-the-mouth pleasure. Wish we could have ordered a dozen of these!
Basil-infused snails with pea puree, tomato glaze & garlic peanut crumble. A visual treat, a veritable symphony of tastes and textures (like virtually everything here).
Organic chicken breast, seared & then baked in a hay, salt & spice crust, served with celeriac truffle pancake, celeriac puree & verjuice glaze. Not as dried out as breast meat tends to be, but carried an earthy taste uncommon in chicken recipes.
Betel leaf-wrapped Angus tenderloin with Savoy cabbage & Indonesian black nut. A knockout platter with Asian influences. I've never seen buah keluak outside of Nyonya outlets, but its creamy texture and olive-like flavour performed magic with the super-succulent beef.
Thyme & honey ice cream. A refreshingly chilled conclusion to a chilled-out evening.
Hickory-smoked chocolate ice cream. A bizarre but breathtaking twist to the typical choc ice cream. Imagine it flavoured with a Tex-Mex BBQ sauce.
Cotes du Rhone, Le Clos du Caillou, Dom. Poulzin-Vacheron.
Bibitus @ Frangipani,
Changkat Bukit Bintang.
The snail look gross! Having an event there next week. Will get to try some of their offerings! :)
ReplyDeletethe snails looked like **** which I shall not mention. Hey I'm still trying to perfect my "sean wine shots"... Lol... nice shot!
ReplyDeleteI love the food at Bibitus. I'm amazed you made it there at lunchtime, Mr Daybreaker.
ReplyDeletenice meh.. i didn't like the sunday lunch here. neither did GFAD nor delectable SU.. harrumph! hehe
ReplyDeleteqwazymonkey: heheh, they probably look better in real life. it seems like a nice, cosy place for events, as long as the group isn't too large =)
ReplyDeleteeiling: luckily they don't taste like ****! :D i was just telling a friend last week that i need to think of new ways to photograph wine, haha
lemongrass: ooh, actually this was dinner ... ergo, "a chilled-out evening." they can serve dinner here (variations of food from frangi's kitchen) if u ask them nicely and if the manager is willing :D
ciki: hmmm, maybe that's cos it's mainly a buffet spread? do try bibitus for their set lunches or frangi for a la carte dinner, cos they really put lots of care and creativity into the dishes :D
Chilled out evening could mean late afternoon wot. Chis.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know they served dinner, though. Is the pricing the same as lunch? (or did I forget to read the fineprint again?)
lemongrass: if it were a long lunch, i'd say "a chilled-out afternoon that lasted until evening." :D but no, i still haven't eaten lunch since the pink sage, weeks ago!
ReplyDeletethey prefer not to serve dinner at bibitus actually (they'll request that u dine at frangi instead). but they'll probably indulge u if u insist. it's more expensive than dinner, and the food is served as canapes and as a la carte courses...
so many new places in changkat, how to catch up?
ReplyDeleteOrganic chicken breast! I was just having a conversation with some university researchers today on how battery hens had such huge, ungainly breasts vs. tiny legs, they can barely stand (the hens, not the researchers, I mean).
ReplyDeleteEeks.
Now I really wish that I could eat like you :P
ReplyDeletebabe_kl: tep by step! if u do one every fortnight, u'll have explored all the worthwhile ones by the end of the year. =)
ReplyDeletelfb: that's probably only the tip of the iceberg, rite. we're breeding frankenstein versions of these animals!
leo: i'm actually, sincerely very thankful that i can. =)
Buah keluak!! It's virtually impossible to hunt these babies down, even in the local wet markets! For their ability to have done so, I think I need to give this a try!
ReplyDeletemin: yep, there can't possibly be any other western restaurant in malaysia that serves buah keluak! :D
ReplyDeleteI was tryin to fathom the lunch vs dinenr thingy.. ok ok got it. ;p
ReplyDeleteI'm impressed with the food prep here man..its beyond fusion. More like "Yea, lets put together the unimaginable ingredietns & see what turns out!"
Thank god they turned out right ;p
tng: yup, they take real risks, and the risks seem to pay off! and they revamp their menu every few months too, so it's always worth revisiting :D
ReplyDeletewhats de diff between frangipani and bibitus i wonder?
ReplyDeleteHickory-smoked chocolate ice cream sounds absolutely divine, cant wait to try it!
augustdiners: frangi is the main restaurant, while bibitus is a wine cellar adjoining the restaurant, but it serves set lunches and sometimes dinner. they're both good :D
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