Blue Reef

Last night, we'd thought we were going to 75 degrees Celsius for dinner. First, we went to get a cake to surprise the birthday girl with. By the time we were headed to the restaurant, it was almost 7pm and pretty dark. So the first time we drove by, we wondered if we'd somehow missed the place. We only realised the place had closed down when we drove by a second time. Whoops.

Anyway, we ended up heading to Blue Reef. It's this nice little fish and chips place at Permai 32, No. 22 Lebuh Lembah Permai 4, Tanjung Bungah. To find this little business area it's located in, from the main road, turn in at this place with a sign that says F&B with a list of stuff below in print that was too small for me to read from the car.

It was Saturday night and the place was completely full! For a place that's comparatively out of the way, it's pretty popular. But we were in luck. A group of customers were just leaving and the table was big enough for the five of us. The staff were nice about having us wait a few minutes for the table to be cleared.

The food was pretty good. We had the soup of the day which was cream of tomato with garlic and basil. I had then the Fettucine with salmon (RM 21) which was great but might be a bit strong if you're not into the taste of salmon...or dairy products. The fish and chips were also lovely. It's great if you're someone like me who can't take dory (whatever that is) which is served by most places. Here, you can have a choice of three types of fish although I can't remember what the other two were. My friends had the Mahi Mahi. Gina had the pan seared salmon (RM19), which I'd also had on my first visit there. It's absolutely lovely, served with couscous. Finally the miso chicken was also pretty good.

The staff were all great: they were attentive and friendly. As usual, we'd bought the cake but hadn't thought about the fact that we had no lighter for the candle or that we hadn't been provided with a cake knife. Well, the restaurant did a lovely job of providing us both, and also paper plates and appropriate dessert spoons. They even dimmed the lights for us. When we'd arrived, I didn't even need to ask for them to keep the cake refrigerated for us. They noticed the bag and just told me they'll take care of it for me. It's a pleasant change from a few places I've been where they scowl at you, refuse to even provide you plates or stuff like that. Awesome.