Sizzlers Restaurant at Damansara Heights

Happy 2013 !

This mainly covers my first post in 2013 and all hail to the new year! More food on the way to our tummy and prayfully nothing, or nowhere is getting any wider or bigger. Muahaha. No, I'm not kidding. *fingers crossed*

Sizzlers Restaurant came to our mind (my mind, specifically) when I browsed through the Groupon website for cheap dirt deals for food and strategically located restaurants (drive-able with GPS and some men driving LOL) and voila, Sizzlers came to an agreement for the other 5 of my friends. Although I had to say that I am a zero clue fella with directions in Damansara area, PLUS with the rest of my friends, but we took the risk and bought it.

Tyng and Andrew went through lots of trouble trying to get hold of the people in charge of the restaurant for a simple booking and according to them, it took more than 10 calls within a three-week period just to hold them down to write down their names and contact number. Which was a sad, sad customer service despite being busy at all times. Taking down a name, date for booking and contact number only requires you to spare less than 5 minutes with your (already) paid customers with a simple courteous decency reply and they can't seem to do it right even making more calls than needed to go to a toilet.

Anyway, to keep that aside and to the food, we managed to get an afternoon, brunch/lunch meet up with all 6 of us, rendezvous at Tyng's house with a two-car convoy. Setting off from Bukit Jalil area to Damansara took us 30-40 minutes, which was well, okay I guess with it saying the first time luck on us that we didn't get lost. Whee!

The groupon deals we took were two sets of 3 main dishes with salad, soup of the day and lasagna. Each groupon deal costs RM39, for three people. Main dishes were open to either pizza or pasta selections.

Notice their chairs being all fancy dandy. I guess having a luxury furniture store next to this restaurant helps with all the interior deco. Lol

I'm half guessing that guy is the big boss. *wink wink*

Tastefully decorated with lush decoration and gives the impression of fine dining, walking in to this restaurant gives a warm yet exclusive touch to it.

The 3 idiots. :D

Outside is adorned with their latest promotions.

Since they had a bar inside the restaurant, having outdoor drinking sessions during happy hour is a good thing too, not to mention the place is quiet and rather refreshing after a day's rain.

Current promotion. But according to my friend, their ala-carte dishes don't come cheap either.

Upon entrance

Promotional and menu greetings before you step into the entrance.

The entrance

We started off with fresh salads. As you can see, it combines fresh lettuce, onions, cherry tomatoes, olive with cod liver oil as flavor. It tastes rather weird, because I never liked cod liver oil, not in emulsion but oil based in the salads just gives it an awkward start.

Each person is served a bowl of mushroom soup, which you can see, watery and tasteless. Pretty much an instant powder mushroom soup with too much of water.

Milkshakes on the other hand was rather good. The taste of the pure chocolate is there and there are no signs of powdery taste to it, which gives it a welcoming start. This is chocolate milkshake and it costs RM7.90. Drinks are not included in the deal so we have to order separately for drinks.

Seen here with strawberry milkshake. Tyng said it was fine.

The garlic breads are fine too, which I was pleased about. The crunch is there and the flavoring of the garlic is not overpowering. Served hot and from the oven, make sure you savor it when you still see the smoke.

We were served first with Margherita Pizza; a combination of chicken ham, peppers, olive, mozzarella cheese and parsley leaves

The 2nd pizza we ordered was Hawaiian Pizza, a combination of pineapples, olives, peppers, mozzarella cheese and also parsley leaves.

The third pizza we had was the Seafood Marinara pizza, which was a little more luxe of ingredients as they used squids, prawns, olive, peppers, mozzarella cheese and parsley leaves. Now, do you see any difference in them? Pretty much all the similar except the main ingredients that sets them apart, right? Yep, that's what I think too. The taste were all the same too, which came to a disappointment again after the salad and the soup of the day.

As for the pasta selection, we were first served with Bolognese pasta and truth to be told, despite its lack of food presentation and the overuse of parsley leaves, this dish is the winning dish as compared to any of the dishes served to us that day. The taste is good, very balanced with the sauce and the chicken pieces in it, very flavorful indeed.

Chicken Lasagna. This looked sad to you, ain't it? The lasagna I made the other day has a better outlook and taste to this. The lasagna sheets were overcooked, too soft, the paste is too watery and you can barely taste any cream sauce in it.

The same goes to the Beef Lasagna, the same sad fate both of them have. Everyone agrees with me, except Andrew which he doesn't take beef.

Green Curry Pasta! Boy, this is pipping hot!crazy with the green chillies and cili padi. Never attempt a single bite into this if you're not a spicy tolerant person!

Carbonara, which looks rather okay but the taste is bad as expected. The thickness of the cream is there but the taste war has lost it big time.

All in all, I didn't really had a good tasting experience in this restaurant. I'm sorry for being harsh on this but even if its a deal food must not be served blandly as we are the first customers who actually paid FIRST to savor your food. And if you do notice, almost 80% of the food served were garnished with parsley leaves, as if there isn't anything else to serve about to make the food looked presentable. Instead, we felt like throwing so much of the parsley actually made all of the dishes looked boring.

But their decorations of the restaurant does give it a seemingly good, chic place to be. If you're head on around Damansara area, perhaps you can consider their Bolognese Pasta or have a drink or two with your friends.

They have wi-fi but their connection was so terrible that a simple log-in to Facebook felt dreadful.

Sizzlers Restaurant

Lot B-0-3, Semantan Suites, Block B, No. 10, Jalan Semantan, Damansara Heights
Kuala Lumpur 50490

Contact Number: 03-2011 3335 or 016-918 1948: 11am – midnight


Cheers and have a happy 2013!


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Food Foundry 21 09 2012

Hello hello everyone and good evening.
Le me shall announce as the first post done by me in this collaborated blog with le friends.
So on the date as mentioned above, four friends and I have met up and decided to go to a place which I have never heard before (but was claimed by my other friends that this place was a to-look-out and was covered by quite a number of bloggers). Since it was my first time, and according to my trustworthy friends, it was rather a good place (odd location though) served with good food. Heard that the mille crepe cakes were the main attractions.

Located in the hot area or should I say rather a secluded and odd (like I said earlier) in SS17, pretty much hidden within a neighbourhood with flats. You'd never expect a place that kind of fancy dandy to be located ina low cost flats neighborhood. To get there, we got lost and missed a few turning, which led to my friend took a very illegal and dangerous maneuvering of the car to do a quick 3 point turn.

The exterior of the cafe

Funnily, the cafe is divided into two parts (like literally) and to get to the crepe cakes (no, we weren't sitting at the side where the crepe cakes were), we had to walk out of the cafe, choose the cakes we want and walk back to the other side of the cafe. Odd much again.

I only managed to take our side of the cafe because my camera battery decided to go low after not charging it for two days. Meh.

Spot one of the bloggers' head? :p

One of the paintings around the wall

The divider is adorned with some clean cut, chic decorations which you can usually see in fashion interior design magazines and blogs.

Some mini decorations on every table

One of the bloggers on action! Checking in on Foursquare that is! xD

Okay. To the menu, because all of us were pretty much hungry that time.
We were given the menus, in old style diner notebook style, which reminds me of waiter's book to jot down menu. Looks like this time terbalik.

We ordered our own respective dishes accordingly, however the waiter's service disappointed me because he made two mistakes. Firstly, when a person usually orders a pasta, naturally in your mind there will be a few selections of the types of pastas you can choose to compliment your pasta delights. But no, when he took down my menu, he did not ask for my pasta preference and just walked off.
Hoping he'll realize his mistakes and come back to me (Celine Dion's song at the background), there's the second mistake he did. He did NOT came back.
Instead, he bluntly serve my pasta in spaghetti type and walked off. Perhaps he was not too happy since the restaurant does not charge for service and government taxes.

Speaking of price, in my honest opinion, with the overall value I see in the pasta as served to me, I do not think RM19 was worth to pay. Plus, I am not full (nor nausea from having too much cream on my alfredo).

Qi Tyng's bacon carbonara? I forgot the exact name for this pasta. I don't think they served pork so its a halal restaurant so I am guessing these are beef bacons. :D The taste is creamier compared to my alfredo, and.. that's about it. Oh, and slight more flavorful(salty) because of the bacon. RM19

Andrew's Cordon Bleu. RM20. Looks good? Except the mashed potato. My friend in Facebook commented the look of the potato is very sad and unappetizing. Lol. I did not manage to try the full taste of this but the cordon bleu tasted alright at first bite.

The actual size on the ratio compared to the plate served. Quite a small portion to me.

This is what I call value for money. In terms of size, that is. Roasted 1/4 chicken with lemon and garlic with fragrant rice served with undercooked carrots and overcooked vegetables. RM20. The half lemon they gave is generous also. Wondered if the chicken was not marinated good enough and the lemon was there to help save the day? Taste wise; disappointing. chicken was too cooked, rice too dry, vegetables have been explained above.

Mhun Yee's Fish and Chips RM20. I find this fish fillet portion damn sad because to me, it is too small. And the presence of the huge fries at the back is purely to compensate the sad size of the fish. Crispy on the outside, slight burn taste but the dory fish inside is alright. Juicy and melts in your mouth.

Ahh. Here comes my prized dish. Smoked Salmon Alfredo. RM19. Seriously, I had a hard time trying to differentiate the taste of my alfredo and Tyng's carbonara because mine came out to be so mild and bland that I felt like I am eating a sick person's meal (Tyng had the same problem too because we tasted each of our pastas). I was full expecting to be burst of flavors and as mentioned in the link (can be found at the bottom of the 2nd picture) but no. Even the salmon I couldn't taste whether it was smoked or cooked or grilled in the first place. Sad much. The only thing I find the pasta was generous is the amount of porcini mushrooms thrown inside. Perhaps another sad attempt to compensate the taste?

Original portion of the pasta VS the plate size.

Well, I got curious for the better to understand what is the distinct difference between alfredo and carbonara sauces so I went to look up in Google to get the comparison.

Differences between Carbonara and Alfredo sauces

What is great to find out that my alfredo is supposed to be served with fettucine pasta! The exact pasta I wanted to compliment my sauce but the waiter decided to be ignorant about it. Heh.

Anyway, to the dessert corner.

Selection of mille crepe and different cakes available

The price is somewhat expected for a fad food like this.

As recommended by tripadvisor. I'm not one of them though. Lol.

This cake appeals to me, but for a slice with that price, I can eat two big bowls of meehoon soup and have a change.

Tyng opted for the Apricot Mille Crepe. RM11

Andrew opted for Chocolate Mille Crepe. RM9

Me and Wei Ying decided to have a fair share at Vanilla Mille Crepe. RM9.

The winning piece? Me and Wei Ying's. You know why? Because of its fresh, distinctive taste of vanilla, cool bitten into your mouth and the layering of the vanilla scent compliments to the not-so-sweet, just nice sweetness level. One of the most satisfying mille crepe cake I have eaten/tried.

Chocolate was a bad choice though, poor Andrew. Haha.

Tyng's mille crepe wasn't bad either, if you like apricots(which is hard to get by anywhere nowadays), you can always opt for hers.

All in all, this place ranks so-so to me, I had a little too high expectations when I heard reviews from my friends so you would say I am rather dissapointed.

On the bright side, this cafe does not charge service and government tax, so you save 16% off your overall bill.

Free wi-fi service and in my opinion, just gives them the advantages to let their customers do the free promotion for them, as offered by many cafes nowadays.

You can locate them at;

Address: BG8 Happy Mansion,, Jalan 17/13, 46400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan.

Phone: 03-7955-388

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Lunch hours maybe a little pack so I'd suggest to come by here for a tea time chat with friends or perhaps dinner for the ambiance.

Thank you for the time reading and hope I'll drop by another review soon. :)