I finally got to try out the much talked about Salt Grill and Sky Bar, helmed by the renowned Luke Mangan. We went on for dinner on a wednesday night, and made a reservation for 6.30pm. It might seem rather early for a dinner reservation but this allows one to take in the views and more importantly catch the sunset!

 Dinner was decently priced, mainly due to it being restaurant week.

Service was pretty good, we were well taken care of right from the moment we stepped in, with the waiter getting our drinks for us rather quickly. ( Another perk of picking an earlier time for a dinner reservation!) The bf had the sydney crab omelette while I had the salmon to start with. I would say the food was pretty average, nothing worth gushing about. The omelette was pretty disappointing though, I felt it was slightly overcooked and somehow didn't appreciate the lack of crab in the crab omelette, plus the miso broth that came with it was slightly odd.

For the main course, I chose the grilled spatchcock, mainly due to me choosing to stick to a safe choice. It turned out alright, with the grilled chicken that was rather tender and moist and I loved the accompanying parsnip puree. 

I would say the view would be the only reason I'll return to Salt Grill & Sky Bar. Don't get me wrong the food is not bad and unpalatable, just that for that price you can get a more satisfying dinner elsewhere. Maybe it's just because it's restaurant week hence the rather restrictive menu, so maybe a trip down on a regular night might be worth a shot!

Salt Grill &Sky Bar

2 Orchard Turn  Ion Orchard 55/L, Singapore 238801

So I've recently started work and we had a training session in KL, which was aimed at getting us up to speed with the core values/company culture and also a networking opportunity for all the new hires.

After a rather long 6 hr coach ride, we finally arrived on the Boulevard hotel, where we checked in, put our stuff down and headed off to see a bit of KL.

The boulevard hotel is pretty decent, quite new and clean, with a rather large bathroom. I would have loved to just chilled in the room but it was time to go out and do some sight seeing. 

The first stop was the iconic Pavilion. It's pretty much like most shopping malls in Singapore, with all the designer store and high street shops, so we decided to try to locate something uniquely malaysia.

These are the pretty teacups on the fountain, and just across the road,there was sephora, in a very interestingly shaped building.

I had to take a picture of this because we no longer have A&W in Singapore and the first thing my bf asked me to do when I got to Malaysia was have the root beer float from A&W. However, we headed off for some more authentically malaysian food. 

Dinner was really great and somehow I had no pictures, it's really affordable with the strong Singapore dollar.

The next night we just hang out near the hotel and went to the Midvalley mall. We headed for dinner at a Japanese restaurant, which truthfully wasn't too impressive. But then the Krispy kreme Cafe more then made up for it On the trip back to Singapore, almost the whole bus had a box of krispy kreme each.

One really interesting thing was a queue at carrefour for pregnant ladies.

On the last night there, we went to Kenangan wholesale city for a lot of shopping! Managed to buy 2 dresses in 30 minutes because all the stores were closing.

It was a great trip and yeah, I'm pretty excited to be able to go back there at some point in time ( well it is pretty close to Singapore!)

Bye for now :)