7atenine - Lunch Unlimited

Read up from many food blogs commenting how nice and surprising their menu was, we decided to try it out on the weekend. Over 20 surprising selections specially created by Chef Florent Geradin, you can never know what you will be eating next (the special menu changes everyday, so what you see here may be different from what you get).

It was quite a challenge for me since I'm not an adventurous person and I always prefer asian cuisine.

So now, I shall let the photos do the talking.

Tomato tart - cherry tomatoes on a not-so-crispy tart. I kinda like this dish because of the whole chunk of tomatoes which ain't too sourish. =)

This was actually the first dish, but I don't bother to re-organise it, haha. Avocado Cream Soup. Rich and creamy, but it tasted damn weird till we can't explain how it taste like.

Beef roll - raw beef on a hot stone. The beef slices were quite thick, but the stone was probably not hot enough. Not exactly to my liking because it was really too RAW.

Tuna Tartare - Raw tuna marinated with herbs. I didn't touch it at all, too raw again.

Orange squid salad - squid head on asian couscous with salsa. Quite fruity and refreshing, overall quite an average dish.

Shaved vegetable salad - asparagus, cucumber, baby radish in asian dressing. One of my favourite appetiser dish. The asian dressing tasted like sesame oil with oyster sauce, good!

Mussel tempura with foie gras & miso soup. I have never tried foie gras, but I can tell you I don't like it at all. =( Mussel tempura was quite bland too.

Pesto risotto. An extremely healthy dish? Hmm...bland.

Panfried seabass with marinated asparagus & lemon. My favourite main dish, refreshing and tasty. From the dishes comments so far, you can see that I am still an asian-tongue. *grinz*

Crispy pork terrine - deep-fried pork & veg cutlet. This dish was too oily and salty.

Scallop confit with chirozo fettucine. Too oily and the chirozo sausage was way toooo hard!! Very tedious to bite it into smaller pieces, don't even think about chewing them mann.

Lamb neck with leek carbonata. My friend felt that it was quite a nice dish, but I find the meat too dry and I can still taste the 羊骚味。Not very thoroughly done.
Angus beef with purple potatoes. Beef was too overly-cooked. Purple potatoes were too bland, if a tinge of salt was sprinkled onto the potatoes, it might tasted better.

Lemon curd tart. Very nice!! I don't mind going for a second helping, if I wasn't sick on that day. So wasted.

Very strong and tangy lemon taste, can be comparable to the Lemon Meringue from Double Bay. Good work, Chef Florent.

Strawberry gazpacho with basil ice cream and sago.

One word, weird.

Chocolate brownies with vanilla ice-cream. I was so sick then, so didn't try much of this dessert. But well, it looks pretty normal too. My friend, who hates vanilla ice-cream managed to finish it off. Apparently she said its' quite good.

So there you have it. Fifteen dishes that took up more than two hours. The presentation is stunning and faultless. They do vegetables and sauces beautifully. The meats for this session were a little hit and miss. The desserts are worth saving room for.

A shout-out to marvellous Chef Florent, being so kind and friendly coming out to chat with us and asking for our feedback, explaining how he understand that not all dishes suit everyone's taste and since it was rather surprisingly, you won't always get what you ate before.

Another applause to the wonderful manager, Katharina for being so patient and attentive to our needs each time she walked past. Always keeping that cheerful smile on her face and asking how was everything for us so far.

It is definitely fun to be keep in the suspense, and wondering what is coming next. Of course, with expectations there will be disappointment. We will definitely be back again to try out more other surprising dishes.

7ATENINE

8 Raffles Avenue

#01-10/12 Esplanade Mall Singapore 039802

Tel: 63380-789

Open daily Mondays to Thursdays: noon till 3pm, 5pm till midnight

Fridays: noon till 3pm, 5pm till 2am

Saturdays: noon till 2am

Sundays: noon till midnight