Portrait of my love…

Well, if you know the lyrics of this song, there is a line that goes like this: “…It would take, I know, a Michaelangelo…to try and paint a portrait of my love…” And that was where we ended up having lunch on Sunday – at the Italian restaurant named after the renowned painter – Michaelangelo at the Pavilion in KL.

I have a cousin, Christie, in KL…and she wanted to give a farewell treat to my daughter, Melissa. Actually, she wanted to meet us at KLCC but I didn’t want to get caught in the Chinese New Year traffic crawl and so we settled upon some place at the Pavilion which was just a 5 minutes’ walk from the hotel where I was staying. She came with her kids, the very handsome son, Callen, who’s already in college…and her daughter, Calley – a die-hard fan of Lady Gaga…and also Taylor Swift. We had this assorted seafood appetiser…

…which I thought could have been a whole meal by itself. I ordered the set lunch (RM29.90) which comprised this very rich and yummy mushroom soup…

…with this spaghetti carbonara as the main course…

…and tiramisu for dessert…

…plus coffee. My daughter also got the soup and this chicken sausage pizza (RM19.90) for her lunch set…

…and crème brûlée …

…and my cousin had another variety of their pizzas – the four-cheese combination…

I did not snap the photos of the other things that we ordered like the lamb shank that Calley – which was served well done when she had ordered medium and it was so tough that she looked really pissed off sawing away and trying to cut the meat. LOL!!! The brother had the aglio olio…and a mushroom pizza.

All in all, it was such a heavy lunch that I had to cancel our dinner date with MacAmbrose, an ex-student of mine. My set lunch was really good – the pasta was definitely more authentic and nicer than what I had recently…and of all the pizzas, I think I like the chicken sausage one the best. The tiramisu was out of this world – really really good but they only served 1 cubic inch of it. I had to refrain from finishing it off in one gulp. Their service would need improving though and the food took ages to come out even though there were not many people around.

Thanks, Christie, for the lunch treat…and also for the ang-pao…and it was nice meeting up with you all.