This year, Gurney Paragon is having a "buy 1 free 1" promotion every Tuesday for certain food & beverage outlets. So we went there on two separate Tuesdays.
First stop: Pie Harbour
Buy 1 Free 1 for a set of pie plus two side dishes. Each set costs RM17.90. The offer was actually for chicken mushroom pie, but they didn't have that. So we took a chicken leek pie and a black pepper chicken pie. The free set comes with fixed side dishes: mashed potatoes and salad. For the other one, we chose chilli con carne (they simply called it "concarne", I think) and fried potatoes. My mother and Snorlax (aka WW) weren't interested in the concarne when ordering, but they were very happy with it after trying it. Because they discovered that it contained meat! lol However we felt that the pie crust was not fluffy/crispy enough. Each set even comes with orange juice, so we didn't have to buy drinks elsewhere.
Second stop: Salon du Chocolat
The Buy 1 Free 1 offer was for a half-moon chocolate waffle. Since we were getting two, they made it a full-moon waffle instead. The price was RM18.60 after including service charge.
This is (not surprisingly) very very yummy. The chocolate was delicious, and there was a lot of it, since it filled up the hollow parts in the waffle. We can actually just choose one kind of chocolate if we have a preference, but we let them decide.
Third stop: 4 Fingers Crispy Chicken
This one is a bit of a scam...not a true "buy 1 free 1". The offer is to buy 3 wingettes/drummets for RM12.20 and get another 3 free. But the thing is, on the menu the smallest set is for 6 wingettes/drummets (for around RM16 if not mistaken). So it's more like a discount on the 6-piece set, or you could say that the 3-piece set would cost RM12.20 if they had it.
The chicken was really delicious, though. (In this photo my mother had already taken a piece out to eat, so if you count (which you probably won't), you won't get 6 pieces!)
Fourth stop: Magnum Cafe
This was our target stop of the day. (In the end I felt Salon du Chocolat was better, though we actually didn't plan to go there because I expected it to be more expensive than it was.)
A stick cost RM9.30 (after removing GST), and the second one was free. The free one came with fixed toppings: mango, hazelnut, and asam jawa. Surprisingly (and thankfully), the asam jawa was not too sour. For the other stick, we chose chocolate balls, blueberry pastilles, and hazelnut.
We could choose the flavour of both ice-creams, so we chose one vanilla and one chocolate (there were only two choices). The free ice-cream came with milk chocolate coating (they coat it after you choose the ice-cream), so we used vanilla for that and had the chocolate ice-cream coated with dark chocolate. We could choose the drizzle as well, and opted for white chocolate (these were the 3 chocolate choices).
Sure, it tasted good... but I'm not sure it's really worth it because we can buy 3 sticks of Magnum at RM10 in the supermarket... we just can't choose the toppings. However trying it once is a good experience :)
Fifth stop: Max & Mitch
This one we ordered for take-away, to have for our dinner. We ordered two pizzas, at RM25 (with second one free), and two sets of potato ham salad at RM6 (again, the second one was free).
The first pizza is the Max & Mitch pizza, which contains beef and beef pepperoni (and more).
The second one is the Ocean pizza, which comes with different kinds of seafood.
Unfortunately the Ocean pizza smelt very very fishy (literally, I mean), so it was not so tasty. The other pizza was okay, but I wouldn't say that it is exceptionally good either. But maybe it was because we didn't eat it hot from the oven.
Max & Mitch is actually part of the Urban Food Hall, which also comprises Johnny Rockets and The Library (which sells coffee). The following Tuesday we went there again to try the Johnny Rockets burgers.
We actually ordered two chicken burgers at RM19.90. This was because the beef burger costs RM5 more. (The fries/onion rings are added on at RM3.90.) However the Urban Food Hall's system was down that day, leading to awful service. After we sat down, we waited half an hour for someone to come and take our order (every time we waved at a waiter, they would either not see us or nod at us, but no one would come to us). After ordering, most likely our order was done wrongly, because at first we were brought two beef burgers, and after telling them that this was not our order (they were going around asking "is this your order?" We had a few pastas come to us even before we placed our order), it seemed like we were forgotten. After some time we asked about our food, and after yet some time, we received one chicken burger with onion rings. (the onion rings tasted as good as they looked... which was not very good) After we had finished our chicken burger and waited for a while, a beef burger with fries came (we had ordered chicken burger with fries). I was taking the photo, thinking that this looked better than the first burger, when I realized it was beef. So we returned it, afraid that we would be charged the price of the beef burger instead (RM5 extra, remember?)
Then we waited for a long time again, before asking for our chicken burger again, and waited again... Then when the chicken burger came, it was without fries. The waiter said that their fryer was not working (baru rosak, I guess, because there were fries earlier!) and asked whether it was okay if he checked whether there were onion rings for us instead. We said yes, and he left... and then came back with another chicken burger. He asked if we would accept it in place of the onion rings, and also as an apology for the lateness of our food. (and he didn't even know how long we waited to place our order!)
So in the end the three of us shared three burgers instead of two. The burgers actually tasted good, however it was still expensive even at half-price. We initially wanted to order waffles too, which was on the menu, but they said they didn't make waffles any more. So I guess it was lucky we didn't order waffles (either because we could have been made to wait even longer for the waffles, or because we would not be able to eat the extra burger). We also ordered two drinks (from The Library, but the orders are taken as a whole by the Urban Food Hall), which took a long time to arrive as well. Most tables had their drinks arrive after their food, but our drinks arrived first due to the delay of our food.
In the end I think we spent more than two hours there for lunch. The queue to pay the bill was also awfully long, though the delay made our queue shorter.
Last stop: Leomag Waffle
Midway ice-cream waffle at RM4.30 each (if not mistaken), with the second one free. When we couldn't order waffles in the Urban Food Hall, we had planned to come here instead. My mother and I weren't really very interested in this after eating the extra burger, but Snorlax still wanted it, so here we were. This is nothing special, just a normal waffle with chocolate drizzle and ice-cream.
First stop: Pie Harbour
Buy 1 Free 1 for a set of pie plus two side dishes. Each set costs RM17.90. The offer was actually for chicken mushroom pie, but they didn't have that. So we took a chicken leek pie and a black pepper chicken pie. The free set comes with fixed side dishes: mashed potatoes and salad. For the other one, we chose chilli con carne (they simply called it "concarne", I think) and fried potatoes. My mother and Snorlax (aka WW) weren't interested in the concarne when ordering, but they were very happy with it after trying it. Because they discovered that it contained meat! lol However we felt that the pie crust was not fluffy/crispy enough. Each set even comes with orange juice, so we didn't have to buy drinks elsewhere.
Second stop: Salon du Chocolat
The Buy 1 Free 1 offer was for a half-moon chocolate waffle. Since we were getting two, they made it a full-moon waffle instead. The price was RM18.60 after including service charge.
This is (not surprisingly) very very yummy. The chocolate was delicious, and there was a lot of it, since it filled up the hollow parts in the waffle. We can actually just choose one kind of chocolate if we have a preference, but we let them decide.
Third stop: 4 Fingers Crispy Chicken
This one is a bit of a scam...not a true "buy 1 free 1". The offer is to buy 3 wingettes/drummets for RM12.20 and get another 3 free. But the thing is, on the menu the smallest set is for 6 wingettes/drummets (for around RM16 if not mistaken). So it's more like a discount on the 6-piece set, or you could say that the 3-piece set would cost RM12.20 if they had it.
The chicken was really delicious, though. (In this photo my mother had already taken a piece out to eat, so if you count (which you probably won't), you won't get 6 pieces!)
Fourth stop: Magnum Cafe
This was our target stop of the day. (In the end I felt Salon du Chocolat was better, though we actually didn't plan to go there because I expected it to be more expensive than it was.)
A stick cost RM9.30 (after removing GST), and the second one was free. The free one came with fixed toppings: mango, hazelnut, and asam jawa. Surprisingly (and thankfully), the asam jawa was not too sour. For the other stick, we chose chocolate balls, blueberry pastilles, and hazelnut.
We could choose the flavour of both ice-creams, so we chose one vanilla and one chocolate (there were only two choices). The free ice-cream came with milk chocolate coating (they coat it after you choose the ice-cream), so we used vanilla for that and had the chocolate ice-cream coated with dark chocolate. We could choose the drizzle as well, and opted for white chocolate (these were the 3 chocolate choices).
Sure, it tasted good... but I'm not sure it's really worth it because we can buy 3 sticks of Magnum at RM10 in the supermarket... we just can't choose the toppings. However trying it once is a good experience :)
Fifth stop: Max & Mitch
This one we ordered for take-away, to have for our dinner. We ordered two pizzas, at RM25 (with second one free), and two sets of potato ham salad at RM6 (again, the second one was free).
The first pizza is the Max & Mitch pizza, which contains beef and beef pepperoni (and more).
The second one is the Ocean pizza, which comes with different kinds of seafood.
Unfortunately the Ocean pizza smelt very very fishy (literally, I mean), so it was not so tasty. The other pizza was okay, but I wouldn't say that it is exceptionally good either. But maybe it was because we didn't eat it hot from the oven.
Max & Mitch is actually part of the Urban Food Hall, which also comprises Johnny Rockets and The Library (which sells coffee). The following Tuesday we went there again to try the Johnny Rockets burgers.
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| chicken Smokehouse burger with onion rings |
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| beef Smokehouse burger with fries |
Then we waited for a long time again, before asking for our chicken burger again, and waited again... Then when the chicken burger came, it was without fries. The waiter said that their fryer was not working (baru rosak, I guess, because there were fries earlier!) and asked whether it was okay if he checked whether there were onion rings for us instead. We said yes, and he left... and then came back with another chicken burger. He asked if we would accept it in place of the onion rings, and also as an apology for the lateness of our food. (and he didn't even know how long we waited to place our order!)
So in the end the three of us shared three burgers instead of two. The burgers actually tasted good, however it was still expensive even at half-price. We initially wanted to order waffles too, which was on the menu, but they said they didn't make waffles any more. So I guess it was lucky we didn't order waffles (either because we could have been made to wait even longer for the waffles, or because we would not be able to eat the extra burger). We also ordered two drinks (from The Library, but the orders are taken as a whole by the Urban Food Hall), which took a long time to arrive as well. Most tables had their drinks arrive after their food, but our drinks arrived first due to the delay of our food.
In the end I think we spent more than two hours there for lunch. The queue to pay the bill was also awfully long, though the delay made our queue shorter.
Last stop: Leomag Waffle
Midway ice-cream waffle at RM4.30 each (if not mistaken), with the second one free. When we couldn't order waffles in the Urban Food Hall, we had planned to come here instead. My mother and I weren't really very interested in this after eating the extra burger, but Snorlax still wanted it, so here we were. This is nothing special, just a normal waffle with chocolate drizzle and ice-cream.
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