Betty's Midwest Kitchen @ Aman Suria Damansara

2 days before I left for Taiwan, met up with Bud, Kim & Ann for an early birthday celebration. Bud recommended this place, and since I've not tried, and I've heard so much about it, we decided to head to Betty's Midwest Kitchen. By about 7ish, the restaurant was all packed.

From the menu, gather that this restaurant will fit the pork lovers, and also, the price is reasonably priced.

The favorite of Bud and Ann was the Country Fried Chicken, thus ordered for us to try. The quarter sized chicken was fried till real crispy, and served with mashed potato (accompanied by country homemade gravy) and peas.

Country Fried Chicken. Price-RM15

For sausage lovers, this dish combines the grilled Bratwurst, Munich, Cheese and Pepper sausages, served with fries and house coleslaw. I did not particularly enjoyed this platter of sausages. It somehow lacked the aroma, and felt this was a little pricey.

Mixed Sausage Platter. Price-RM35

The baby back ribs is a popular dish here. Marinated with some special ingredients, it is then grilled to succulent tenderness. True enough.

Baby Back Ribs. Price-RM32.50

As for the side order, we went for the 'Pig-in-a-blanket', pork cocktail sausages wrapped in bacon and overcooked. This tasted ordinary enough, and I would have preferred fried bacon with the sausages.

Pig-in-a-blanket (6 pieces). Price-RM12

Another dish that was recommended to us was the Grilled Beer Braised Boston Butt. Its pork shoulder braised in beer for 3 to 4 hours, sliced and grilled. The meat was extremely moist.

Grilled Beer Braised Boston Butt. Price-RM27.50

The girls - Kim and Ann

Me & Bud

It was a dinner we had with mixed feelings. As much as we'd like to have a great birthday dinner celebration, it was also the 2nd day that grandma of Bud, and Ann being admitted to hospital, due to difficulty in breathing.

Wish her speedy recovery.

Betty's Midwest Kitchen

A-G-40 Jalan PJU 1/43,

Aman Suria Damansara,

47301 Petaling Jaya

Tel : 03-7880 0196

Email : reserve@midwestkitchen.com.my

URL : midwestkitchen.com.my

Silver Spoon Trattoria @ Bandar Manjalara

To-date, Silver Spoon has been a much talk-talked about restaurant, and has been featured by many bloggers. Chef Ken having first known to serve affordable Italian food years back at Menjalara, Kepong, is now back as chef at Silver Spoon. Must be a relief for his fans that misses his cooking.

Silver Spoon carried its own charm, with its classy interior, which uses wooden deco and chandeliers. Overall, gave us a real warm feeling when we stepped in.

I was there a while back, which was the day Silver Spoon was featured in Sin Chew daily. Therefore, it was in fact a full- house for Silver Spoon and they were a little short-handed the other day.

Interior of Silver Spoon

The starter ordered my other 2 dear friends while waited for us was the Calamari Salad. I didn't manage to capture it in picture, but the last piece of Calamari I took, which was a shared portion, tasted really good. Tasty, and chewy.

The prawn avocado salad was filled with grilled prawns (tasted real yummy), avocado, red onion, tomato, lettuce and red cabbage. Served a little chilled, topped with cocktail dressing, this was a real fresh bowl of salad.

Prawn Avocado Salad. Price-RM26

The vongole fettucine cooked with lots of fresh clams, chilli, parsley, and olive oil tasted alright. It has a strong garlicky taste too. A simple plate of spaghetti.

Spaghetti Vongole. Price-RM23

This chicken dish was rather special. Crumbed chicken topped with turkey ham, eggplant, baked with cheese. The chicken good, but just felt it was a little dry. The sides came with potato wedges and salad.

Chicken Parmigiana. Price-RM29

One of my personal favorite was this Garlic Prawn pizza. Its a thin crust pizza, made with marinated tiger prawns, sundried tomatoes, garlic, roasted capsicum, feta cheese, and topped with fresh herbs, and wedge of lemon. The overall ingredients complimented one another, a little of the natural prawn sweetness, cheesiness from feta, slight sourish taste from sundried tomatoes, just loved this.

Garlic Prawn Pizza. Price-RM27

The must have was of course the pick-me-up famous dessert - Tiramisu. Popular Italian dessert made of coffee and Kahlua soaked ladyfinger biscuits, layered with mascarpone mousse, and topped with cocoa powder. Its real creamy, and the mascarpone gave it a slightly rough texture. If only it carried a stronger Kahlua taste, it would've been my perfect dessert.

Tiramisu. Price-RM16

It was great catching up again, with the ex-colleagues.. Wish Candice had a wonderful birthday.

The 5 of us

Silver Spoon Trattoria (above AmBank),
1st Floor, Wisma Manjalara,
Bandar Manjalara,
52200, Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03-6277 0445