Carrot Cake Hunt Round 2

Hello everyone!

Part 1 of this series can be found here. I've managed to try 2/5 of my To-try list carrot cakes! I'll definitely try all of them and give y'all a review! But for now here's how the carrot cakes I've tried fared:

Maison Ikkoku:

Felt that theirs was quite moist, icing good cos its a thin layer. But could have more walnuts. There were a few grapes too, personally I dont like having grapes in my carrot cake? But definitely one of the better few around. Think it was $6 for this? Or possibly $5+ 4.2/5

Blackbird Cafe:

Theirs was the WORST tasting carrot cake I've ever eaten in my whole life. It tasted sourish and like it was bad. Barely any hint of cinnamon or tastes you'd associate w a carrot cake. Walnuts look aplenty but they were small pieces and you could barely taste them. Bad on the whole, totally lacked taste. I paid $8+ for the tea set, 3-6pm, slice of cake or 2 muffins with tea/coffee. 0/5

Room For Dessert:

Cakes on display!

Very quirky artwork in the store. There's a 2 or 3 seater sofa in the shop and you can just ask if you can sit there and eat the cake (:

Her icing was quite nice, not too sweet and hers had raisins too. Felt that it was a bit hard? Like not as moist as I'd like it to be. Maybe cos I came in with v high expectations of the cake so when it didnt meet my expectations I was rather disappointed? 4/5

House of Robert Timms:

Think this was $8 or so? I think $8.80 or something aft GST&Service charge! One of the more expensive ones I've eaten! Well you may say its four layers, but some like Cedele's give you 2 thick layers which equals to about this size? Anw this one had raisins tho not that many. Icing isnt done nicely as you acn see, there are uneven layers. Moist, walnuts could have been more, cinnamon taste a little stronger would be good. I'd rather they just give 2 layers so its more of the cake than the icing! 4.1/5

So now I'm down to:

1. Calendar Cakes
2. Coffeesmith
3. Room Coffee Bar
4. Any oth cafes I come across

Please recommend any oth places if you know of!! (: My friends really think I'm carrot cake crazed now cos I've seriously been trying whenever I see one :D

Australian Seafood Fiesta @ Olive Tree

Promo menu outside the restaurant. Its 62++ per pax, so 73 after taxes!!

Here's the spread:

This was quite salty well cos its smoked but I dont really like smoked salmon so haha. Cant really taste mango. No lemon taste

Crunchy prawns!

Lobsters v sweet! Prawns no taste, mussels ok, oysters a bit too salty!

Nice envt! (:

These are called yabbies!! The meat is like prawns but sweeter and juicer!! 

Hot food buffet and on the left is the sashimi!

Quite fresh! Swordfish tasted a bit funny to me tho 

The prawn/mussels thing was ok

The herb crusted ocean perch didnt feel herb crusted at all hahaha and wasnt soft again unlike most sea perch dishes I've eaten!

They kept the lid of this open to prevent the steam from "wetting" the calamari!

Scallops were quite good!

Bottom right bread was quite nice!

Pasta station 

Roast beef

Friend said this was v tough and not nice

Steamed sea bass wasnt as soft as I'd like it to be. Quite tough actually :/

The cranberry cheese was superrrrr good, not a v strong cheese smell! Ate many servings of this!

This tart was VERY good, the crust was good cos it was just right thickness and crispy + crusty! I ate 5 pieces in total HEHE. I like! But one of the pieces I ate had the seed inside which made me v grumpy

Both quite good!

Panna cotta was quite good too!

Mango souffle was sunken alr and looked dry

This barely had taste :/

The cake was q interesting cos havent eaten a cake w raisin in it!

The balls in front were so ewwww~ the green one, I thought was matcha truffle, in the end was sth like bread w some cocoa powder outside?

Rock melon was sweeet

Movenpick if I'm not wrong! Strawberries and cookies & cream are good!

The mousse is great! But the cake is a bit dry :/

Watermelon was quite juicyyy!

Overall, the friend and I were quite disappointed by the spread. Thought there'd be more. This felt like 10@Claymore was more worth it 'cos food's about the same and price is abt 20bux cheaper?? Quality of the food was average. Service is quite sporadic also, sometimes dishes dont get cleared for quite long even though there were only 5 tables or so tonight. 

Will not go back though, cos the price is just too expensive for this spread.

Olive Tree

Intercontinental Hotel