The cafe doesn't see much crowd during dinner. However, the food is not bad, just a little pricey. I love the beef lasagne. It's very cheesy and comes with crispy deep fried noodle bits, making the dish slightly more interesting.

Potato island is worth a try too! It's baked potato with mushroom and ham inside and is equally cheesy. It's a little expensive at about $7+ for two potato halves. Service is impersonal.

Whenever my friends need a recommendation on restaurants, I know they will never go wrong with Tao's. For all the times I've visited (~10 times), I've always been offered attentive and thoughtful service. The food is consistent and there is value for money at about $23 for 6 courses. My favourite bacon and cheese gratin that comes with lightly toasted bread. The servers will politely ask if you require more bread. At this point, say NO. You will know why afterwards.

After the appetiser comes salad (fruit salad with crabstick), soup (cream of mushroom soup) and drink (rose apple tea). More often than not, I'll order the oven roasted steak as my main course. It is a generous portion and the meat is very tender. Love it!

If you can still manage, the last course is dessert. I usually choose creme brulee.

The consistency in food and service is the reason for the high ratings on food review websites, and it shows.

As my friend had a $10 Bakerzin voucher, we decided to go there for tea and made our first order of a dessert platter. A woman who came in to pick up her cake left rather angrily after the staff messed up her order.

...Fast forward 20 minutes...

A waitress comes by to ask us "So are you ready for your order?"
We told her we were waiting for our order to arrive. She checked and told us that the order was not reflected in the system at all.
...


Okay, so it turned out we'd been waiting 20 minutes for absolutely NOTHING, but the waitress came by to offer her most humblest apologies for us waiting, so we decided to wait some more.

Ordered a cookies and cream cheesecake to while the time away.The dessert platter did arrive in the end, but we were not compensated for anything, and had to endure the supervisor admonishing her staff in full view of the customers.

Number 2 rule in customer service and PR - Never, ever, scold your employees in front of customers.

Like others, it will be my last visit to this outlet.

It was for a friend's birthday but the menu was rather small so we decided to splurge and order all the choices for the meat BBQ, a tofu kimchi stew as well as spicy rice cakes. I especially loved their signature red pig pork. The marinade was really delicious! Next we ordered spicy rice cakes. A little expensive at $18 when the base materials are rather cheap. We still enjoyed ourselves nonetheless. Eating tofu stew on a rainy day was comforting and satisfying. It was of just the right taste and we ate it clean.

Service was rather disappointing though. I don't know if they were short handed, but they took very long to attend to our orders, and our tumbler of water took very long to get refilled. The amount of side dishes was limited to just kimchi, onion and cold tofu. No anchovies, no beansprouts, no rolled egg. They were also very slow in giving us refills.

$22 for an authentic Korean meat BBQ buffet is really worth it. So much so that I went an hour before it opened to get in during the first round. It was worth it. There're a lot of choices to choose from, different types of chicken and pork meat in generous cuts. They also offer sikhye, a sweet rice drink that's refreshes you in between rounds. The staff are very attentive and swoop in to change the aluminium foil once there are carbon bits on it. The standard way is to wrap your meat with lettuce together with kimchi and bean paste before eating it. It's a good idea to skip lunch in order to maximise your tummy space for this meat feast.

The place is a little stuffy though, as it's crowded with a lot of tables using the hotplates. Be prepared for the lingering smell that sticks onto your clothes.