Bee's Bakery

I had lunch today at Bee's Bakery in Megan Phileo Promenade. Bee's is known more for their pastry and baked goods, and having bought their breads before, I was reasonably confident that their meal menu would not be much different. I was a bit wrong.

First, when we walked into the bakery, there almost all the tables were occupied and those that were not occupied had "reserved" signs on them. But then the waitress calmly swiped away the sign from one of the tables and seated us without question even though we did mention that we didn't have a reservation. I also noticed this happening similarly to the other "reserved" tables, and it makes me wonder if the tables had been reserved in the first place or not? Secondly, I really wonder if people would actually want to reserve tables at a bakery that happens to sell food as well? It's not a fancy restaurant, you know. But I thought that I was being too critical and decided to give them the benefit of the doubt.

When we placed our order, the waitress seemed to be in a great hurry, and was a tad too impatient for my liking. It's not like we took ages dithering over what to eat. Barely had she slapped down the menu on the table, she whisked out her pen and asked, "What you order?" Since it was our first time there, we all decided to order their daily set menu (which changes according to the day of the week) and today's choice was either Curry Chicken with Rice or Curry Chicken with Noodles and came with an Ice Lemon Tea. We would have liked to look at the menu a little while more to get an idea of what kind of food they served, but Ms. Impatient tugged the menu away from under my colleague's fingers (she was turning the page). How rude! My colleague was not pleased, of course.

Our drinks, the Ice Lemon Tea, came soon after and of course, with the kind of service standards we'd already received so far, another waitress just dumped three glasses onto the corner of the table nearest to her. Our cutleries were also tossed onto the table with serviettes and we had to pass them out ourselves. Already I was not liking the place more and more.

Since we had all ordered the daily set menu, you would expect the service to be prompt. After all, there isn't much to do expect scoop the rice, ladle some curry on top and serve, right? No. My Curry Chicken with Rice came after a fifteen minute wait and even then, it wasn't hot at all. Not only was it not hot, the curry was slopped onto the plate any old how and served with two miserable slices of cucumber. The chicken that I got was mostly bones with precious little flesh and only 1 1/2 pieces of potato. Even the rice was cold and hard, as if it had been cooked early in the morning and left to turn cold.

I'm sorry there aren't any pictures because I was with colleagues, and I didn't want to expose myself as a food blogger. Heh.

To imagine I paid RM 8.50 for that lunch experience! Well, unless all the restaurants in the area closed down, I certainly won't be eating there again.

And I am going to think twice before I patronize that particular branch of Bee's Bakery for my breads and pastries too.

Bee's Bakery
Block EO3, Megan Avenue 1
189, Jalan Tun Razak
50450 Kuala Lumpur

Tel : 603-2780 7018 / 012-290 0607

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rinnah's makan hut rating - * : I liked you last week, but I didn't like you this week