Showing posts with label EVENT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EVENT. Show all posts

Friday, December 2, 2011

[Food Review] Cafe Barbera at Sunway Pyramid

Cafe Barbera Food Review 
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Thanks to Shannon , I was able to attend a food review by Cafe Barbera at Sunway Pyramid on Monday itself. With more than 140 years of coffee perfection, Cafe Barbera doesn't serves only freshly roasted coffee product; they also serve main course meals, pastas, pizzas, soups, desserts and more.

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A good place to hang around or chill with your friends or family over the weekdays or weekends. We were given a choice to select any Barbera's coffee selection of our preference. Cafe Barbera serve a wide variety of coffee.

Drinks
Top L:R ( Roma - RM12 , Napoli - RM12)
Bottom L:R ( Double Toasted Latte - RM11, Espresso Shakerato - RM10, Cappuccino Shakerato - RM11) 

Affogato - RM11 

Process
Cappuccino Lapoletano - RM10

Before the main course meals were served, we were presented with fresh baked pastries

Croissant
L:R ( Multigrain Croissant - RM8, Butter Croissant - RM7)

And we started off with the first entree of the day,
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Rolled Smoked Duck Salad - RM20
Rolled smoked duck with mixed mesclun tossed with cherry tomato, coffee dressing and orange citrus.

Smoked Salmon Bruschetta - RM19
Sliced of smoked salmon with olive oil, capers, dill and rocket salad served on toast.

 Spinach & Cheese Spring Roll  - RM14
Rolled spinach with emmental cheese.

After the appetizers & salads, we had soups.
Mushroom and Pumpkin Soup - RM13 (bow) or RM7 (cup)
Homemade cream of mushroom soup/ Homemade cream of pumpkin soup with roasted garlic.

After that, we were invited to see how's the pizzas were prepared and made.

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Pesto, Cheese and Mushroom Pizza - RM26
Topped with tomato sauce, pesto with mushroom, onion, black olive, garlic oil, parmesan andmozzarella cheese.

Hawaiian Chicken Pizza - RM26
Tomato sauce, chicken meat, onion, peppers, chunky pineapple and mozzarella cheese

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Spicy Tuna Pizza - RM26
Tomato sauce, chicken meat, onion, chunky tuna meat, chilli flakes, olive oil and mozzarella cheese. 
Café Barbera Opening Promotion deal of 9am-12noon and  3pm -6pm Drink all you Can RM 15 on all Coffee! 12noon - 3pm, 6 pm - 9pm RM 15 on hand made Italian PIZZA!
*Promotion is valid till 30th November 2011.
 Pastas were next in line, my favorite dish for the pastas was the Beef Carbonara!
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Beef Carbonara - RM26
Fettuccine with sliced mushroom, beef and egg yolk in cream sauce.

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Prawn Aglio Olio - RM29
Spaghetti cooked with prawns, olive oil, garlic, chillies, fresh basil and sundried tomato.

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Salmon Aglio Olio - RM29
Pan fried salmon fillet topped with homemade caper sauce on bed of spaghetti aglio olio.

Chicken Lasagna - RM25
Layers of pasta, béchamel, cheese, spinach and minced chicken; baked in oven.

After done having the pastas & pizzas, it's time to roll in the carpet for the main course meals.
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Stuffed Chicken Parcel - RM33
Stuffed chicken thigh with spinach, carrot, capsicum, turkey ham and mozzarella cheese, served with mashed potato and mushroom sauce.

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Grilled Tenderloin - RM49
Served with sautéed baby potatoes, vegetables and green peppercorn sauce.

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Braised Lamb Shank - RM39
Braised lamb shank with vegetables, served with fettuccine and grapes.

And now it's time to bring in the desserts! Favorite dessert of the day : Chocolate Fondant.
Desserts
Chocolate Fondant - RM14
Molten chocolate pudding served with vanilla ice-cream

Tiramisu - RM12
House specialty tiramisu

Pear Crumble - RM14
Served with fresh pear and vanilla ice-cream



New Daily Breakfast Lite @ RM9+ with freshly baked pastry & a cup of Barbera's coffee, OR ADD RM2 for additional freshly baked pastry with any drinks purchased at Café Barbera Sunway Pyramid.


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For more information, do visit :

Cafe Barbera's
OB2-C7-42, Oasis, Boulevard Two,
Sunway Pyramid, Bandar Sunway, Selangor. Malaysia
(Located Opposite of Parkson)
Tel: +6 03 5622186
Website: www.caffebarbera.com
Twitter: @BarberaCoffeeMY
Facebook: Café Barbera

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Saturday, November 26, 2011

SausageFest 2011

SausageFest 2011, where local bands come perform, to help the kids by buying sausages.
*on a note all picture will be BW*

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The event was held at Laundry Bar, The Curve on the 24th November at 9.00pm. It's the last gig and it's a blast :D

Upon registration under bloggers/media , each of us was given a goodie bag with lots and lots of stuff in it.


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To get a sausage album it's only RM30. All funds will go towards the charity. Didn't manage to get the album by An Honest Mistake for RM20 only :/ 


The goodies bag by Durex.

Our MC of the day from the band Once Upon A Time There Was A Sausage Named Bob

The first band to perform today was by Seconds to Collide

And follow by An Honest Mistake, didn't manage to catch them during their performances at Subang Jaya last time. It's good to catch them here at Laundry Bar, The Curve.

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The band was led by Darren and Sheryl.

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Head banging XD!

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Sheryl, the lead singer in the band
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Another shot of head banging :P 
Had a great time listening to their music.

And before the next band perform (while waiting for them to set up) the first lucky draw of the day


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Won by some lady. Lucky her! Missed the first draw.

The next band to perform was Car Crash Heart, first time seeing this band in action.


And yes was awaiting for Rosevelt to perform :D


 Nick Davis - Vocals
Bryan Chin - Drums
Kushal Kumar - Bass
Joshua Desmond - Guitars
Jeffery Wong - Guitars

Can't wait to catch them in Penang again!! 

And the last band of the day to perform was by Once upon a time there was a sausage name Bob

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A great way to end the event. Another band which I never heard before. They perform a few of their songs and one of them was Shut Your Monkey 

Overall, love the local bands and it was a great performances!

Sausages for RM3 per stick for START society. 

Overall, they managed to raised RM1300 for START society

 To know more about START society, Click here

Friday, November 18, 2011

Zee Avi's Concert in Malaysia at KL Live

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Courtesy to Livescape Asia, i was able to catch Zee Avi’s concert at KL live yesterday. Came across some of her music before but I didn’t know it was sung by Zee Avi until yesterday. *being so happy after winning the contest, heads down to KL to see Zee Avi’s concert* It was worth the journey.

 

Narmi

 

Narmi & band

The concert started of with Narmi (drummer from One Buck Short)  and his band. Performing a few songs Tweet in Defiance, Whirl, cair and there’s more (*couldn’t remember :( ZOINKS!)

 

Right after Narmi and his band done with their performances, it’s Zee Avi’s turn to perform :D

 

Zee Avi ZEE AVI !!! At last :D ! Been standing for a very long time, while waiting for her to come on stage.

 

Bitter Heart by Zee Avi

One of the song sung by Zee Avi ( Bitter Heart)

 

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Zee Avi The songs which she sang from her New Album : Ghostbird

31 days,

Siboh kitak nangis

The book of morris johnson

Madness

Concrete wall ( love this one)

Roll your head in the sun

Stay in the clouds

Moonstone miles

Swell window

 

It doesn’t stop there.! She sang a few of her other songs as well from her other album (Bitter Heart, Kantoi and Honey Bee) and also a dedication song to her mum (if i’m not mistaken) 妈妈的眼睛.

 

Kantoi by Zee Avi

 

Enjoy watching her perform, and she’s proud to be a Malaysian :)  Now being hook to some of her songs =X

 

*woohooo* claps claps *

 

Thanks for coming Ivan :D

 

For more information:

 

Zee Avi’s facebook page : Here

Zee Avi’s website : Here

 

Narmi’s facebook page: Here

 

Read more about the concert at TimeOutKL and check out Ivan’s post about the concert.