St. Louis Pork Ribs @ Cafe Cartel

While I was in Singapore, I was told of a nice place to go for dinner that I’d simply love. So without much delay it was off to Tampines Mall for dinner.

Walked around the mall, we came up to Cafe Cartel and right smack at the entrance, I saw this huge poster saying St. Louis Pork Ribs. PORK RIBS! WOO HOO!!! Anyway, that was just how my heart was screaming but on the outside, I was as cool as a cucumber. We walked right in, told the waitress that we need a table for 2 and promptly got ourselves seated. That was as far as good service goes as it took them a good 15minutes to come and take our orders, not that we were not ready but because no one seems to be bothered to look at the direction of their customers especially me even when I was waving my hands holding their menu at them like crazy.

Anyway, when our orders was finally taken by a chinese girl who doesn’t understand a single word of english, we got our food served. I ordered their MUST TRY set which comes with the Soup of The Day, in this case, it’s the Mushroom soup. The soup isn’t anything special, mostlikely came out from some can like Campbell’s with 3 cubes of toasts.

Then, they served us the Prawn Cocktail Salad, a Mixed Salad with mix fruit cocktail and fresh prawns tossed in Thousand Island dressing. I would say that the prawns do taste fresh but there just isn’t enough thousand island dressing on the bowl. Asking the waitress is a waste of time cause she look at me in return and ask me if I’d be able to talk to her in mandarin instead of in english. I was like… WTF!

Then, the main dish showed itself. According to the Menu, the St. Louis Pork Ribs was awarded 100 Signature Dish Award 2005 and Star of the Year ’03 – ’07. Now, with all those awards, you’d definitely think that it’s good eh? The dish looks awesomely delicious and it does taste good… BUT… yes, there’s a BUT here. There’s just too much BBQ Sauce that it’s drowning the pork ribs. The Lip smacking and succulent baby back ribs roasted with home made BBQ Sauce in a way failed for me because of the overwhelming taste of BBQ Sauce which just kills it for me. It would have been perfect if the sauce was thinly coated onto the pork ribs and have a small little bowl with extra sauce for anyone who needs more.  Because of that, it loses point in my book.

I was told that I’m a very picky eater but then, I don’t think I am, I just enjoy good food and is opinionated when it comes to food. That’s all. It’s not hard to please my taste buds, just give me chicken rice or KFC and I’m happy.

The Cafe Cartel – Tampines Mall
4 Tampines Central 5
#01-46 Tampines Mall
Singapore 529510
Phone: 6784 6066
Fax: 6784 9964

Ratings:
Food – 3/5
Service – 2/5
Cleaniness/Ambience – 4/5
Value for Money – 3/5

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