Diamond Tony's Panorama [隨意鳥地方 高空觀景餐廳]

Visit: May 18, 2012
Address: 台北市信義區信義路五段7號85樓 (Inside Taipei 101)
Number: (02) 8101-0016
Website: http://www.diamond-tony.com.tw/

Menu

Diamond Tony's Panorama Dinner Menu

Freshly Baked Garlic Bread and Fresh Crab Meat in Cream Sauce - Set (奶油蟹肉特製沾醬、現烤香料手工麵包 - 套餐) 

Baked Garlic Bread in Crab Meat Cream Sauce

 Props to both the bread and the sauce (: The bread was nicely warm and toasted with garlic spread inside the bread... it just gave me a warm fuzzy feeling. The crab meat sauce was so addictive. It's not really anything fancy, but honestly cream sauce dip... who can resist?

Soup: Minestrone Vegetable Soup with Beef - Set (羅馬蔬菜牛肉燉湯 - 套餐) 

Minestrone Vegetable Soup with Beef

 The soup was pretty standard and the beef wasn't too bad either.

Soup: Wild Mushroom Cream Soup - Set (法式蘑菇野菌濃湯) 

Wild Mushroom Cream Soup

 I was really disappointed with the soup. The flavoring wasn't that great and it was also much too watery to be called a cream soup. I really would've liked to be able to taste the mushroom instead of just finding bits of it floating around in my soup.  


Cold Appetizer: “Carpaccio of Veal Tenderloin” - Set (醋醃生小牛肉片附帕梅森乾酪及續隨子 - 套餐)

“Carpaccio of Veal Tenderloin”

Cold Appetizer: Caesar Salad, Diamond Tony’s Style - Set (巴諾羅馬脆培根凱撒沙拉、蕃茄與水牛輕乳酪 - 套餐)

Caesar Salad, Diamond Tony's Style

Cold Appetizer: Norwegian Smoked Salmon - Set (冷燻鮭魚柳佐第戎芥末籽醬襯鮭魚子及酪梨 - 套餐)

Norwegian Smoked Salmon

Cold Appetizer: Sliced Pork Spine Salad with Tomato Salsa - Set (席恩那豬頸肉薄片沙拉、番茄辣味沙沙 - 套餐)

Sliced Pork Spine Salad with Tomato Salsa

Hot Appetizer/Entree: Caprese Linguine with Tomato, Basil, Bu alo Mozzarella - Set (輕乳酪與蕃茄塔香細扁麵、地中海的美味 - 套餐) 

Caprese Linguine with Tomato, Basil, Bualo Mozzarella

I remember this as just a very standard basil linguine. At least the linguine wasn't overcooked.

Hot Appetizer/Entree: Homemade Ravioli with Tiger Prawn - Set(香煎琥珀蝦及手工義式麵餃、佐綠胡椒龍蝦汁 - 套餐) 

Homemade Ravioli with Tiger Prawn

Homemade Ravioli with Tiger Prawn

It's such an excitement to cut open a ravioli, you never know what lays in there :) The tiger prawn inside was fresh and maybe a little overlooked, but the dish wasn't bad at all.
Hot Appetizer/Entree: Sliced Seasonal Fish - Set (微煎時令深海魚、橄欖油白酒提味 - 套餐) 

Sliced Seasonal Fish

Hot Appetizer/Entree: Roasted Sea Scallop and Tiger Prawn with sautéed Sauerkraut - Set (輕燒深海扇貝與海虎蝦佐奶油酸菜 - 套餐) 

Roasted Sea Scallop and Tiger Prawn with Sauteed Sauerkraut

Hot Appetizer/Entree: Warm Salad of Crispy Duck Breast with chopped Wild Berry - Set (脆皮鴨胸溫熱沙拉、綴以野莓果丁 - 套餐)

Warm Salad of Crispy Duck Breast with Chopped Wild Berry

Main Course: Roast Pork Prosciatto Mozzarella Cheese - Set (焗培根豬肉卷鑲火腿芝司 - 套餐) $1680 NT 

Roast Pork Prosciatto Mozzarella Cheese

 
The pork was a little too dry for me even with the fatty bacon strip wrapped around. Instead of enhancing the taste of the pork, the bacon was just annoying to eat since it just seemed to get in the way.

Main Course: Seared Beef Fillet - Set (迷迭香烙烤菲力牛排、牛肝菌半釉汁 - 套餐) 1680 NT

Seared Beef Fillet

My friend ordered the seared beef fillet medium rare, but the meat was definitely overcooked. Although the meat was still eatable, I just felt like at the price we were paying it at, the steak would be classified as bad.

Main Course: Pan-roasted Duck Leg Con fit - Set(法式油封功夫鴨腿佐香橙風味醬 - 套餐) 1680 NT 

Pan-roasted Duck Leg Confit

I did my research before I decided to come to Diamond Tony's and I was just so excited about the duck leg. The presentation of the duck was nice, but the food certainly did not live up to my expectations. The duck leg was too dry and the sauce tasted like it was only there to make the plating nice.

Main Course: Spice crusted New Zealand Lamb Rack - Set (爐烤紐西蘭小羔羊肋脊、酥皮裹香草 - 套餐) 1980 NT  

Spice Crusted New Zealand Lamb Rack

Main Course: Char-grilled U.S.D.A Prime Fillet Steak of Beef - Set(羅西尼菲力牛排佐填鴨肝及白松露奶醬 - 套餐) 2280 NTChar-grilled U.S.D.A Prime Fillet Steak of Beef  

Char-grilled U.S.D.A. Prime Fillet Steak of Beef

The beef was once again too overcooked, though it wasn't as bad as the pan-seared beef. The foie gras was pretty average and it was a little gross that I could actually feel the fatty chunks in my mouth. The seasoning for both were not impressive at all.

There was supposed to be dessert afterwards, but we were simply running late and had to take it to go... which turned out to be a horrible decision. It took the waiters probably 15 minutes just to give us the tiramisu which I did not understand at all. They simply had to take it out of the fridge and place it in a box... without even plating it, how hard could that be? When I finally got around to eating it though, the tiramisu was more mousse-like than cake-like. Now that I think back, I'm not actually sure if that even was tiramisu. The dessert was not bad though :)

I would not recommend Diamond Tony's Panorama. I've seen the menu for both Panorama and the RenAi branch. The menus were completely identical... except for the huge price increase at Panorama. I'm not going to lie, the view at Panorama was really nice, but the food, service and interior designs were not. The waiters took forever to figure out the bill, and no one ever seemed to know what was going on. The layout of the restaurant was also really weird, plus the interior actually felt like a pretty ghetto high-end restaurant imitation. To me, the only reason you'd go to Diamond Tony's Panorama is because you desperately want a Western meal on top of Taipei 101.