Friday, September 2, 2016

Marta's Kitchen @ Desa Sri Hartamas

After reading about Sharmila Nair's review about Marta's Kitchen in the The Star few months ago, I was adamant about giving this place a try.

After our church family day outing at Desa Waterpark, we made our way for a very early dinner.
We arrived at The Signature about 5.30 pm and found ourselves to be the only customers at that time. * By the way, we parked our car at Sri Hartamas (near Naughty Nuri's) and walked.


The natural lighting and simple decor creates a perfect relaxing dining experience.


Interesting floor art..always wanted to use them for my house but hubby objects:(





 How nice that you are able to see your food being prepared from this glass window.



We kicked-off dinner with a selection of tapas.

The ham croquetas (Croquetas de Jamon) were superb. Creamy bechamel sauce oozing out from the center of the ham croquettes. Yummilicious!

Don't bother about the free bread though. Even with the olive oil dip it still tasted bland.

The lamb kebabs were well marinated. I enjoyed every bite, although they were a little salty.
From left to right (Ham Croquetas - RM 19, Bread - FOC, Lamb Kebabs - RM 23)
Next, we had San Jacobo. Tender pieces of pork sirloin filled with iberico ham and melted cheese is surely set to WOW you.

San Jacobo (RM 25)
The only main dish we ordered was the Squid Ink Paella. We underestimated our tummies and thought that the portion for 2 will be small. When the paella came, we were rather shocked cause it was quite large even for 3 people.
Even shocking was that there was only 2 prawns 'decorating' the entire paella.
Well, the paella was actually quite good. Full of flavors and there's like tiny chopped squid embedded within the rice. *Note: Rather on the salty side.

Squid Ink Paella ( 2 portions for RM 70)
For dessert, we ordered churros with Valrhona chocolate dip.

Churros with Chocolate Dip ( RM 15)

Overall, the bill came to RM 192.00 (including 1 cup hot Valrhona chocolate - RM 12, 1 glass Sangria - RM 19 and 1 glass orange juice - RM 9).

End note: I would recommend ordering 1 paella and explore different kinds of tapas. Food was on the salty side but bursting with flavors.