Tony Roma’s Lunch Sets, Midvalley: thrifty people edition.

Today N & S decided to jazz things up a bit. They took the bus from centre of excellence workplace to Midvalley Megamall. The bus ride cost RM 2 for a return journey. Honestly, they were ditched by R and J was too interested with his work to join N & S. 

We went to Tony Roma’s because we know we will get our money’s worth for their lunch set menu. From RM 17.91, you can get appetising soup, tasty main dish with bottomless drinks. Surprisingly, they have quite a generous variety of lunch sets which cost RM 17.91. You know those places right? The ones that advertise in their big bad banner proclaiming to have very cheap lunch set menu and once you have sat down and looked at the menu properly you realise there is only ONLY measly meal which was relatively cheap at RM 18… the rest were RM 30 and above. Clever marketing ploy? Depends on if you want return customers or not.

Once we were seated and ordered our lunch sets, we were served with a small loaf of baguette (or rolls… hey, nobody reading this is expecting us to be technical right?) with herb butter. The warm bread was soft and really nice and tasted better with a thick spread of herb butter. Ok, who are we kidding… we did not lather the bread with a thick spread of butter. We basically cut the butter into huge chunks and ate it with the bread.

S chose the grilled quarter chicken meal which came with a whopping dollop of mashed potatoes topped with grated cheddar cheese and a side of mutant broccoli. Seriously, they were huge. Like Godzilla huge. She also chose the clear chicken soup as part of the lunch set and had Lipton’s Iced Lemon Tea. Bottomless just to be clear okay. She rated the lunch set at 9/10 as she felt it was the worth the money. The clear chicken soup tasted okay, like it was not euggghhhh or something. Well seasoned (or our Mums would probably say too salty). The quarter chicken was filling ( she received the breast and wing part) with normal- tasting gravy which was elevated when dipped with the restaurant’s signature sauces. She was promised fire grilled vegetables from the menu but got the broccoli instead. The brocolli were lightly sautéed in butter. She had those first (you know, saving the best for last?) and was quite full by the time she finished the last of them. She could not force herself to finish the mashed potatoes even though it was delicious. The texture of the mashed potatoes was the best… it was not too smooth and silky like the ones you usually get. You can still taste some of the skin and some small potato pieces. And the iced lemon tea topped off the whole dining experience. You know what they say about drinks…the best drinks are bottomless ones. 

The generous grilled quarter chicken with mutant broccolis and mashed potatoes topped with grated cheedar cheese

N chose the Fire Grilled Harvest Valley Chicken which was a generous piece of chicken breast with rice and fire- roasted broccoli (seriously, you guys ran out of vegetables other than broccoli at 1 pm?) topped with a citrus apple relish. He also had the clear chicken soup as a starter and had Light Pepsi, which he topped up like 3 times (nobody was counting after the 3rd one by the way). Just because it is light does not make it okay to guzzle like it is plain water, buddy. S felt like her friend has the bladder capacity of an elephant. Anyway, sorry to digress. He rated this particular meal at 6/10 because the he felt the rice was too dry. We are Asians hence that automatically make us the leading expert on rice. Deal with it, non- Asian restaurant chain. The citrus apple relish was quite refreshing and tangy like a salsa. He probably felt the same way as S on the mutant broccoli so we do not have to repeat ourselves here.

The Fire Grilled Harvest Valley Chicken with roasted broccoli and rice topped with citrus apple relish

The clear chicken soup. Okay, so this looks unappetising because we forgot to take the picture when the bowl was still full

Our overall experience? A 8/10. Or 9/10, it’s close. The service was quick, efficient and courteous. Once they cleared our table, they opened the single packs of wet tissue for us. And it was pre- warmed… oh heavenly. We also received a Mentos chewable candy each. You feel loved, right? The ambience was 7- 8/10. It was clean, not musty smelling and dimly lit (which we think was what they were going for instead of trying to be cheap on electricity bill). Our total bill came up to RM 39.40. RM 20 per person for a place like this is worth it, don’t you think?

So, if you can find another place like this for us to review do leave a comment below.

Regards,

Honest Foodes Review Team (well, N & S for today)