Fresh Bar By Big Chill

Trish Santos

My wife had been here before and she wanted me to experience this restaurant. We finally had the opportunity to go today.We arrived at 11:15 and we were seated right away. We ordered the Pad Thai of course, and Garlic Prawn and Pork Satay. While waiting for our order to be served we were given a small dish of caramelized peanut which was quite good. After about 15 minutes the Pad Thai was served. I must say it looked different from the Pad Thais in the other Thai restaurants we've been to - and we've been to quite a number of them. This was because it had some scrambled eggs that "surrounded" the noodles. As for the taste - it was the best Pad Thai I had. The Garlic Prawns were delicious and was prepared in such a way that it was easy to remove the skin without having to use our bare hands. The Pork Satay was good, if a bit hard. Thankfully the peanut sauce was not spicy and just the way I wanted it. For dessert we had the Sticky Rice with Mango. There were parts of the mango that weren't that sweet yet.Overall it was a good experience. This place apparently is very popular as it was full by the time we left (a little before noon) considering this was a weekday. My only nit was that they only had two staff members who worked as servers and cashiers. To their credit they both worked diligently and did their best to please the customers.

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Dikky Yulianto

I enjoyed my visit here. The place is Instagram worthy. The wait staff and kitchen staff are well coordinated. I loved watching the Baker as he made freshly baked bread, and I also loved the bread basket. It had sourdough and baguette. The crispy crust and the soft chewy bread... I would keep coming back just for the bread alone. 😍The entire menu was available at 7:30 in the morning, unless of course they ran out of ingredients. I really appreciate the honesty of the staff. An example is when we ordered the Pan-fried Chicken Steak. Our server came out of the kitchen and informed us that the kitchen asked if we can change our order because the available chicken was under sized and they didn't want to compromise on the quality and quantity of the dish. That to me is already a 👍👍👍👍👍. So we did change our chicken dish. In the photo, you'll see the Ribeye Steak. Don't be fooled by the size, because we asked our server to have the steak divided into two, which he gladly had the kitchen do. At first we thought that they would just have the steak cut into two, but they did an even more amazing job. They served it separately. They divided the steak sauce, mashed potato and the French bean into two separate dish. 🤩 Everything we ordered was good and the service even better. I'm definitely coming back to try the other dishes. As per my companions' warnings, I didn't make it to dessert 😭 I'll confess that I single handedly finished the bread basket and even mopped up the butter. Despite their warnings, I couldn't stop eating the bread 😅

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