Few days ago, Hubby mentioned that he wanted to dine at a place which provides cozy and relax environment and what came into his mind was RMS Portview.
Having located near to the jetty in Bandar, RMS Portview sure has got good view of Kampung Ayer and with its contemporary interior design sure can allow one to feel relaxed.
There weren't many patrons. In fact, there were only 2 tables occupied which one of it was us.
The other table was having steamboat which is one of RMS Portview's signatures.
I only learned that other than steamboat, other food which RMS Portview serves is similar to Fratini. And I only realized it when the waiter handed me over menu book of Fratini.
I knew both Fratini and RMS Portview are under RMS Groups but little did I know, both these two restaurants which named differently are serving same food except steamboat.
I always thought that RMS Portview is a seafood restaurant =/
Anyways, Hubby ordered Stuffed Mushrooms and this reminded me of how much I miss Shin's cooking! (Please come back soon and cook for me again!)
However, their Stuffed Mushrooms was so disappointing! The mushrooms used were so smalllllll and not only that, tasted below average also =(
I choosed to have Linguine Seafood in Fish Baullion sauce. It's a type clear sauce and the other option for this pasta dish is red sauce. A very worth trying dish!
Another dish we ordered was Fettucine Carnonara which it tasted much better than the other one which we had just tried out recently in another restaurant.
So, here comes the highlight of the night.
As you all know that parking isn't free at RMS Portview/Fratini as the parking lot is managed by Metro Parking. However, if you inform the restaurant management that you have park your car in that parking lot, the management will issue you free parking voucher which you can just hand it to the Metro Parking's at the exit and leave without paying for the parking fee.
We did the same, informed the restaurant waitress, got the voucher, hopped in Minnie and vrooom to the Metro Parking hut, handed over the voucher to the staff and he said, "$1 please".
We were like wth? The guy then told us that the voucher was meant for 1 hr only and we had parked 2 hours so we needed to pay $1 for the extra 1 hour we had stayed. In other words, we needed more than 1 free parking voucher issued by RMS Portview.
We were angered as this wasn't our first time. Previously we had came to similar situation and which we paid the remaining parking fee as there were cars behind us so it wasn't possible for us to turn back and to get additional parking voucher. Another reason was that after paying bill at the restaurant, we asked the waitress if really just one free parking voucher was enough to cover our 2 hrs parking length time in the car park and she replied "Yes" firmly.
Considered ourselves lucky, there wasn't any car behind us this time and we quickly reversed our car, parked well and ran up to the restaurant and talked nicely to the waitress who issued us the free parking voucher. At first she was kinda reluctant then later we told them this wasn't our first experience anymore so the other waiter issued the additional parking voucher to us and finally apologized.
I know the $1 parking fee might seem small but this is not a money issue. It's the staffs' attitude. She shouldn't have said "Yes" when she wasn't sure of it and what's more this incident happened more than once already. There is seriously lotsa rooms for improvement and they should also discuss with the Metro Parking management to revise the policy for the parking voucher. I believe we aren't the only victims who ever experienced this before.
Hunnie Signing Off~
