Review: Venicia, Bangsar Puteri Cafeteria

I was home alone yesterday and I got tired of cooking Mee Goreng for myself, which was the only food stock I had at that time.

I've been hearing people talking about it - on how good the food tastes, or suck. Kinda figured that the only way I'd really find out is to actually try it for myself. So, since that was the case and Bangsar Puteri was just merely a 5 minutes walk away from my house, why not?

Condominium restaurants or cafeterias don't usually get much of the hype as to general shop lot restaurants do. Afterall, the sole purpose was to cater for the people living in the condo itself. It is tad troublesome when a condominium has no cafeteria in service yet. Just like the place I live at, which restaurant/cafeteria owners get chased away by one black sheep of the community on and off.


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Venicia is no different. When it comes to condominium restaurants, the word doesn't get out fast about the quality of the food. Only by this crawling pace. Ought so, I only knew about it this year. They cater sort of this mix of western and chinese cuisine, Western Chinese if I may.

You even have an option to dine by the poolside (outdoors, by far obvious) if the air conditioning indoors isn't your preferred choice of dining, but it isn't as beautiful as a hotel's poolside bar. We're talking about a 20+ old condominium here.

Anyway, my meal of choice? Butter prawns, Cabbage and Yang Zhou fried rice with a price of less than rm25 all together.

Many of you might remember Mr. Allan who once ran the restaurant at Tivoli Villas condo. The food at Venicia's pretty much similar to his style, except, with no doubt, Allan's food still owns the roundtable debate.

+     The food probably had me craving for more, I highly recommend the buttered prawns.

=     You would probably find few other restaurants that serve better food somewhere in town, but probably none from the vicinity of Bangsar and Damansara.

-     Just like any other condominium restaurants for non-residents, you'd have to register yourself at the guard house, but it isn't as cumbersome as you might think at Bangsar Puteri.

$     Probably a bit more expensive than restaurants you might find outside, but it's the residential area of Bangsar and you can't expect anything to be dirt cheap.