Don Alfonso, Macau

We went to Don Alfonso at Grand Lisboa Hotel on Randy of Grand Hyatt Hotel's recommendation. Grand Lisboa Hotel & Casino is located in the older part of the Macau. It's not far from where we stay and we took a cab to get there. The restaurant was a bit quiet when we arrived at 1:30PM. The menu offered a nice selection and each of us decided on having a 2-course meal. First of all we were served with a generous selection of bread. They were warm and lovely.

 

We all get our Amuse Bouche (picture above), followed by our choice of starter. I started with Crispy layers of scallops and green asparagus with sweet paprika and sea urchin sauce (below). 

 

My main Entree was Spring chicken, fresh green peppercorn sauce, crispy purple potatoes and baby carrots and the dessert was Hot dumplings of pears, pinenuts and raisin served with buffalo ricotta sorbet and raspberry sauce.

 

Miss K chose Lasagna (below) as her Middle Course

Her main Entree was Striped red mullet, “Frascatelli” flavoured with lemon from “Sorrento”, wild arugula, Aglianico red wine reduction.

 

Her dessert was  Hot chocolate cake with banana sorbet and tangerine marmalade coulis.

 

DH had Tiramisu for dessert, see below.

There was a selection of complimentary petit four that we could have too, along with Coffee or Tea. 

So that's the end of a long lunch. It was quite a nice experience, but we have tried a better one in Macau and we planned to head there for dinner. Another Italian cuisine for the next meal. We look forward to it.

Going Italian ...

Looking back at what we have been eating over the past few days here, I was quite surprised to find so much Italian elements on them. I normally have quite a good mix within a week of what we eat, there would be some rice, some noodles, and others too. I would make sure that we have a good mix of chicken, seafood, meat and vegetables. Somehow, something must have happened to my brain and I ended up with so much of Italian and giving too much unnecessary joy to my kids' tummy ....

Saturday Lasagna.....

This afternoon, my No.3 had the sudden urge to make lasagna and I worked as her assistance in the kitchen. The verdict, it was really good. I helped her tossing is some salt, pepper and herbs, but she did the bulk of the work including assembling and arranging the layers as well as what to put in there. It was super yum, the sausage that was mixed in the sauce helped improve the flavor.

Now pizza....

We also had pizza on a couple of days, the topping was all our classic favorite mix consisting of mushroom, salami, provolone, cheddar and mozzarella cheeses. Of course they were also super good.

Time for pasta....

Pasta with bacon, mushroom and cream sauce.... sprinkled with more cheese???? Hmmmmh.......

Life has been good, despite the chaos in the world and our waists are definitely expanding, quite rapidly.......