fine dining!

Let me share with you about this fine dining restaurant in RP - Oliva. It is located at the topmost level of the directors' office E1 of RP. Normally, only staff can get accessed to this place. I was most fortunate to be invited for a lunch with a group of interns and my school's director.

This restaurant is actually managed by the students from School of Hospitality. It is part of their module requirement, which requires them to know how to run a restaurant - cooking, serving customers, handle tasks in a real life restaurant setting. It is really a good idea. Plus, the food here is very cheap to consider a fine dining. But of course, thanks to the director for this meal!

This salmon looks very good right? It's the only lunch course for the day. So everyone ate this! It looks small in portion but I am very full after that.

I was the only one who ordered this mocktail. I just want to try out more new stuffs. It is called "Madagascar", perhaps the name is chosen in line with the upcoming movie. It tastes not too bad, with lime, guava and cherry, along with soda.

This teeny weeny dessert is the wrap up of the meal, served last instead of the usual tea. Well, the students got the sequence wrong. It is very nice but too sweet for tooths like me. At last, I didn't finish it.

We had a really nice lunch with him, talking about things related to us, school life, intern life, future prospects. He also offered his help should we need any thing from the school. It is very rare for high fliers to eat a simple lunch with us, and to help orientate us around. At some point of time, he doesn't give us that kind of stress in a working setting. And also, we got to met the other intern working for the same school as us too - well, that's the whole objective of the lunch, to meet more people in the same boat.

Fine dining highlights small details, such as the food presentation, how it should be placed in different angles to the customers. The arrangement of the utensils, your manners and everything. All in all, I feel that the most pressured person will be the student serving us because at the end of the day, the students will be graded daily, just like any other modules.

I would love to bring my friends and family to this restaurant if there is a chance!