There are just so many dishes worth getting its quite an adventure just choosing the starter.
When my partner and I went to Jaspas, we started our meal off with the lobster nachos ($95), which were out of this world. The warm, crunchy tortilla chips topped with salsa, guacamole, lobster bits and melted cheese were just the right thing to get my taste buds going. One downside to this dish was that the portion was too big. I could have ordered this for a main course but it was an amazing dish all the same.
We were also very tempted by the other dishes such as the Szechwan chilli clams, mini baby-back ribs, Mexican quesadillas, oriental won tons and others.
Looking at the main course menu, you will understand what I mean when I say that we had a hard time choosing because of all the dishes Jaspas had to offer looked so delicious. Dishes like Caribbean chicken cooked with 5 spices or the delicately subtle salmon steak, made from fresh Norwegian salmon grilled and served with champagne caviar sauce. Other entrées included Penne Arrabbiata, Chicken fajitas, rib-eye steaks and more. The good thing about the jaspas menu is that it provides an array of dishes from all the categories like meat, seafood, vegetarian and pasta.
I ended up ordering the Chateau Briand, which was definitely the right choice for me. The beef tenderloin was grilled to perfection (with my choice of cooking preferences. In this case, medium-rare) and the black pepper sauce was complemented the tenderloin wholly. The steak itself was a beauty. It was very tender and it held the marinade in very well, so I experienced many different flavours in each bite, each one enhancing the other.
My partner ordered a dish that looked just as tastefully appeasing; the chicken saltimbocca, sautéed chicken breast with Parma ham and fresh sage infused in an elusive white wine sauce.
For dessert I settled for a vanilla ice cream topped with chocolate fudge. It doesn’t sound too interesting or exotic but it did wonders to my taste buds. There were also other, more sophisticated desserts such as crème brulée, warm custard with double crème topped with caramelized golden brown sugar. Another very tempting dessert was the Banoffi cake; caramel base cake with fresh bananas, warm caramel sauce, whipped cream and a choice of chocolate or vanilla Ben and Jerry’s ice cream.
On the whole, my meal was excellent with one little exception. The only problem, I thought, was that it seemed like we waited too long for our meal to arrive, which made us a little impatient so I recommend that you order your starters as soon as possible. Apart from that little problem, the meal was great.
