Valentine 2016 at Signature, The Roof

A Romantic Interlude with a View

Get cosy and intimate this Valentine’s Day at Signature by the Hill, located at The Roof. Though it’s a peak festive season, many should not forget to spend a romantic moment with your loved ones this Valentine’s Day. A perfect and romantic ambiance with a gorgeous view of the city in the evening, Signature offers lovers an unforgettable dining scene. One can enjoy the city night scene through its glass windows as well as the elegant and modern ambiance set to the mood with soft low dim lightings.

Signature is offering a Romantic Dinner with a View this Valentine’s Day at RM488 nett per couple. Available at 13 and 14 February, this special promotion set offers lovers an entrée buffet with a choice of one main course and dessert for sharing. A complimentary Champagne cocktail is also included for the couple.

In the Entrée Buffet, diners can help themselves to an assortment of canapés, fresh seafood, salad, soup, while the choice of mains and dessert will be served to your table. Some of the highlights of the entrée buffet include creamy mushroom soup, a wide spread of garden greens with various dressing, oyster shooters, smoked salmon & dill, prawns al plancha on crackers and more.

Creamy Mushroom Soup was thick, creamy and beautifully aromatic with loads of earthy mushroom flavours. A swirl of cream and croutons completed the delicious dish…

The Smoked Salmon with Dill on garden greens was lightly dressing in a tangy vinaigrette, letting the greens, cherry tomatoes, olives, smoked salmon and dill shine with much simplicity and tasty flavours.

For main course, diners have four options of Spring Chicken, Duck Linguine, Herb Crusted Ocean Trout and Blue Cheese Tenderloin.

The Spring Chicken was juicy and tender with a light crisp and goes well with the porcini mash. Sweet and soft cloves of caramelized garlic added much depth to the dish.

Steak and cheese lovers will rejoin with Blue Cheese Tenderloin. A gorgeous thick fillet medallion is cook to your preference, in this case, mine was medium rare. Smothered with pungent blue cheese sauce, the flavours are unctuous and tasty in a positive outcome. The sides of creamed spinach, roasted baby carrot and roasted potatoes rounded up the balance with its vegetables.

Celebrate your Valentine’s Day with a sweet ending of Trio of Dessert. Savor Mud Pie, Petite Pavlova and Blueberry Cheesecake and simply create a new romantic and sweet memory with your loved one!

Signature by The Hill Valentine’s Day promotion is priced at RM488 nett per couple and is availale at 13 and 14 February.

Stratosphere - Dining under the stars

Get fancy with your beloved under the stars at Stratosphere, Asia’s first and only green helipad bar. Exclusive to only 10 couples, Stratosphere’s 4 course meal consists of a heart-warming soup, a starter platter featuring exquisite seafood – prawns al plancha on crackers, smoked salmon & dill and oyster shooter, a choice of mains from Signature as mentioned above and lastly a beautifully crafted special dessert, “Lovers Chocolate Sphere” - a wonderful chocolate ball that slowly melts when hot caramel is lured on top, revealing another wonderful dessert within. Priced at RM988 nett per couple, the meal comes with a bottle of Veuve Cliquot.

Make a wish for your other half or write a love poem on The Roof helium balloons and have them released in the sky in conjunction with their Lovebirds Balloon release this Valentine’s Day.

Each pair dining at The Roof for Valentine’s Day may also stand a chance to win a 1.5 litre Magnum bottle of Veuve Clicquot by the end of the night. Dinner meals will be available only on the 13th and 14th of February, 7pm onwards. For more information, kindly log on to www.facebook.com/TheRoofMalaysia. For reservations and further inquiries, please call 03 – 8605 3388.

SIGNATURE BY THE HILL

The Roof at First Avenue

1, First Avenue,

Bandar Utama

47800 Petaling Jaya

Tel: 03-77261588

Website: www.theroof.com.my

Facebook: www.facebook.com/Signature.TheRoof

Business Hours:
Mon – Fri             10am -10pm
Sat & Sun             4pm – 10pm

Signature By The Hill @ The Roof, First Avenue

Wagyu Burger Promotion & Mother’s Day Dining

For the month of May, Signature by the Hill has two promotions going on at The Roof at First Avenue. After a lovely brunch there during the weekend, it was a nice change to dine during dinner at Signature one evening to check out the amazing city night view together with its dinner menu.

As the sun set, the night’s sky turns dark and the city lights up vibrantly all over. As soon as I entered Signature, I was transported into a world of elegance and romance. The ambience of restaurant was gorgeous with low dim lights, soft music and beautiful people all dressed up to the nines. We were seated near the window and couldn’t help but to feel excited at the view of the city skyline. If you are all out to impress someone, Signature by the Hill is the place to do so.

Before heading into the restaurant, make sure to grab a cocktail or two at Signature’s bar just like us to unwind for the evening. Alternatively, you can also order the luscious and creative giggle juices when dining in the restaurant. We settled for Margarita and Watermelon with Lychee Mojito. One classically citrusy with tequila while the other sweet and fruity with rum. Both cocktails are utterly good for the soul and perfect for relaxation before the meal.

For the adventurous, do check out their other creative giggle juices such as The Pink Elephant, Milo Ais, Hawaii 5-0, The Fish Bowl and more.

The evening meal started with Soup of the Day, a luscious Pumpkin Soup served with dinner roll. The soup was thick, creamy and earthy. Pumpkin was the star and it was beautifully balance with savory and sweet notes. Each spoonful was a soothing tummy warmer for the rest of the meal to come.

For mains, we had the house red wine of Altos Del Plata Malbec from Argentina. The Malbec was fairly intense with rich currants line with spicy notes. It’s a good choice for meaty dishes.

At Signature, even burgers get glam up! Signature Wagyu Burger is a decadent pile up of thick succulent wagyu beef patty topped cheddar cheese and jazzed up with truffle oil. The wagyu patty sat on a bed of crisp mixed greens with fresh cuts of juicy tomatoes, raw onion rings and crowned with the highly prized pan seared foie gras. All the burger ingredients are sandwiched with black charcoal bun and served with golden onion rings and corn on the cob.

The burger was delicious! The patty is really moist and has rich meaty flavours. I like how the patty was cooked till medium pinkness and had juices oozing out as I bite into the burger.

That decadent foie gras was really the icing on the cake or rather burger, lending its sinful richness to the burger. The onion rings were really a nice change from the usual fries while the corn added freshness to the burger.

Another house signature dish on the menu is the Giant Meatball ‘Bomb’ Linguine. An enormous meatball is the crowning glory on linguine coated with a rustic roma tomato sauce and finished with shaved parmesan. The meatball bomb has seasoned ground Australian rib eye encasing a whole egg.

It was nicely moist and cooked well and would really have been the ‘bomb’ if the egg had molten center. I really enjoy the pasta a lot as it had robust spicy flavours in the tomato sauce.

The third main course we had was Pollo Pesto, featuring grilled chicken sautéed in basil pesto sauce pasta. Topped with sundried tomatoes and shaved parmesan, this pasta is a plate of bold flavours. I can really taste the wonderful nutty aroma and flavour of the herbs, cheese and nut in the pesto sauce. I also like that there was plenty of sauce in the pasta as I love lots of sauce in mine.

As mentioned earlier, there are two promotions at Signature for the month of May. For the whole month of May, burger fans would love the Signature Wagyu Burger promotion where the grand and decadent burger is available at RM80.

For Mother’s Day, there are two menus to pamper your Mom! Celebrate the special day with her for a lovely bright brunch or take her out for an evening dinner with a majestic city view. Mothers eat for free on this special day with both menus. T&C applies.

 What is even a better treat for Mother’s Day is every mum stand a chance to win a pair of tickets to Koh Samui with Firefly! This would be the best treat to give to your mum for a relax vacation with white sandy beaches.

Find out more when you dine on Mother's Day at Signature by the Hill at The Roof!

Signature Mother’s Day special is open for brunch on 9 & 10 May from 11a.m. – 3p.m. and for dinner on 10 May from 6 – 10pm.

For reservations, please call 03-77241627 (Mon – Fri; 10am – 6pm) or 012 330 4629 (everyday after 6pm).

SIGNATURE BY THE HILL

1, First Avenue,

Bandar Utama

47800 Petaling Jaya

Tel: +6016-229 1505 / +6012-444 9628

Website: www.theroof.com.my

Facebook: www.fb.com/Signature.TheRoof

Yezi Premium Specialty Steamboat @ The Roof

A Steamy Affair at New Heights!

It’s my first time enjoying a one-of-its-kind premium steamboat that highlights coconuts! Yezi, which means coconut in Mandarin, takes the enjoyment of steamboat to high level. Located at The Roof, Yezi is set against a backdrop of the city’s view. The restaurant features exquisite steamboat broth highlighting the natural sweetness and goodness of coconut and other signature steamboat items.

Walking into Yezi, diners will find the ambience gorgeously opulent. The whole restaurant is spacious and has high ceiling gorgeously decorated with golden Oriental designed lightings. The space is cleverly sectioned off to allow privacy for diners and there are also private rooms available as well. Wood chairs intermixed with marbled table tops, highlighting the fine dining concept of enjoying luxurious steamboat set in grandeur ambience. More Oriental ornaments added charm together with Chinese paintings. The one side of full floor-to-ceiling glass allows diners to catch the city view.

In the evening, the whole restaurant is amazing with its warm gold glow and the city’s mesmerizing view.

The Group F&B plans to open nine more Ye Zi outlets by the end of the next year with a second outlet at The Club in Bandar Utama scheduled to launch in three months.

According to co-owner Katrina, Yezi’s concept was inspired by a tasting of the coconut-based broth in Shenzhen, China. The natural flavours of the coconut evoked much soothing and warming sensations. Coupled with premium ingredients and house made signature items, Yezi is set on taking steamboat indulgence to new heights with its repertoire of organic and semi farm fresh menu. Freshness is the key when indulging at Yezi!

To start off the evening, Yezi has five signature broths of The Original Yezi Broth, Imperial Canton Broth, Aromatic Taiwanese Beef Spice Broth, Fragrant Shao Xing Wine Seafood Broth and Wild Forest Truffle Mushroom Broth. These are all priced between RM38 to RM78. Each broth is truly unique and luxurious. As we all know that the secret to enjoying steamboat is the broth, Yezi has set the bar high with the five signature broths.

To go with the steamboat, Yezi has its own signature steamboat sauce that is unique. The Yezi sauce is made up of Yezi Special Homemade Dipping Sauce, chili, sand ginger and calamansi lime. There is a guideline to mix the sauce but diners can always adjust accordingly. I really enjoyed the moreish sauce as the flavours are well harmonized with savory, sweet, sour and spicy notes. If you are the typical diner that loves heat, then there is also a kick-ass spicy chili sauce that is guarantee to rock all your senses with its powerful hit of spiciness.

As we wait for our broth and ingredients, we savored some cold and hot appetizers from Yezi menu.

If you enjoy Century eggs, you will love the Szechuan Fried Century Eggs (RM15). The textural dish has wobbly and moreish century eggs whipped up with lots of dried chilies, scallions and crushed peanuts. It certainly whets the appetite for more food to come!

There was also Chilled Jellyfish for some bite…

Fried Chicken Cartilage (RM8) is a crowd-pleaser with its crispy salty bites of soft chicken cartilage with some meat.

Our steamboat ingredients are neatly placed at our table and it was certainly a delicious sight to behold! We had The Original Yezi Signature Broth (RM38 per pot - refillable), a clear sweet broth that has a wonderful aroma eluding the pot as it slowly comes to a boil. Using fresh coconut water enhanced with bamboo pith and water chestnuts, the natural delicate broth provides the base to enhance all the fresh key ingredients to be savored in the steamboat.

It is recommended to add Organic Chicken (RM30 – whole chicken / RM20 – half chicken) for extra flavours. After enjoying the chicken and the broth, then diners can enjoy more ingredients.

The first sip of the broth was gorgeously sweet with nuances of the coconut sweetness taking center stage. There is a sense of sensuality of flavours that I have never savored before. Hitting all the right spots in comfort, the broth has an air and taste of elegance as well.

Now we all know that we love our meatballs, seafood balls and other classic processed balls in our enjoyment of steamboat. What differentiate Yezi from others are their homemade specialties 8 types of meat and seafood balls that are made in-house on daily basis. Using the freshest ingredients, the balls are delicious and exquisite in their own variations.

Select from premium Black Truffle Balls (RM24), Wagyu Beef Tendon Balls (RM18), Black Pepper Cheese Balls (RM16) to classic Squid Balls (RM16), Chicken Balls with Mushrooms (RM12), Tung Choy Pork Balls (RM12), Mui Choy Pork Balls (RM12) and Fried Lobster Salad Balls (RM13).

Topping my hit list are the Wagyu Beef Tendon Balls with its firm and bouncy texture and flavourful beef note, Black Pepper Cheese with its unique combination of spicy hit of pepper with oozing cheese, Squid Balls, Tung Choy Pork Balls and Mui Choy Pork Balls for its flavours. Make sure to order these…

Dumplings or Sui Gow are simply a must for me in steamboat. It is also a testament to how good the steamboat can be with a well-made plump dumpling. Yezi’s signature dumplings had all the checkmarks of a solid well-made dumpling with its selection of four variations of Coconut Dumpling (RM12), Imperial Seafood Dumpling (RM28), Shaoxing Pork Dumpling (RM12) and Chives Dumpling (RM12).

Both Coconut Dumpling and Imperial Seafood Dumpling have plump and juicy fillings. The price tag for the seafood dumplings is quite hefty but I can taste chunks of prawns and scallops in them so they are quite luxurious.

We also had Prawn Paste (RM20) served in bamboo. These are beautifully sweet and tender with just a few minutes of cooking in the broth. Other seafood paste includes Fish Paste (RM18) and Black Truffle Squid Paste (RM20).

Fish & Tobiko Paste Noodle (RM18) was served in a syringe, making it easy to turn the paste into noodles in the boiling broth. There is a nice textural bite of popping of tobiko in the fish noodles. One can also order the Seaweed Fish Noodles (RM12) as alternative.

From the meat list, we savored Special Beef Slices (RM25) and Pork Neck Meat (RM16). Both fared equally good and only required very minimal swishing in the broth. If you are up for more pampering, there is Japan Matsusaka Beef (RM290 – 100gm) or Spanish Black Pig (Seasonal Price)!

Seafood list is endless and filled with luxurious items from Australian Lobster, Geoduck, Australian Abalone, Alaskan Crab, Tung Sing Pan, Turbot Fish, Sea Cucumber, Tiger Prawn and more to the more classic affordable Snapper, Squid, Fish Maw, Scallop, Clam, Oysters and etc.

Vegetables are a must after all the indulgence so make sure to order the classic organic greens and root vegetables or organic mushrooms.

For fillers, there are local noodles and imported ramen and vermicelli aim to please carb diners like me.

Yezi even has desserts to sweeten the night. Our Homemade Fragrant Coconut Ice Cream (RM10) was such a welcoming treat from all the hot food that evening. It was gorgeously aromatic and creamy with loads of coconut flavours. Another must-order at Yezi!

Yezi epitomize a luscious premium steamboat that is wonderfully unique. Gather up your foodies for more merriment to enjoy the list of highlights for a steamboat indulgence. Coupled with a gorgeous ambience and view, this is certainly taking steamboat to new heights…

For reservations, please call Ye Zi at 012-3235841

YEZI

Sky Level, The Roof,

1 First Avenue,

Bandar Utama,

47800 Petaling Jaya

Tel: 012-3235841

Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Yezi-椰子

Opening Hours: Mon – Sun: 6pm – 2am