I was invited to a friends birthday dinner at Szechuan Court in
Raffles City. Thinking it would a Chinese dinner, it is normal to
BYO wine for the occasion. As we bring out
our wine, we were told that we would be charged $45 a bottle for
corkage since its happy occasion for us we agreed to pay for the
corkage. But to much of our surprise, we were served with some
cheap looking glassware instead of the usual wine glass we would
expect from some other Chinese restaurant we been to. Also as they
changed our eating utensils, most of us found that the chopsticks
are stains and so were our wine glass. This is certainly not we
expect from a restaurant in 5 stars hotel. I do not mean that
restaurant cannot charge corkage but before you start charging you
should at least serve some decent wine glass depending on the
customers wine. I think the management should be seriously looking
into these. As raffles group hotels are now considered world
standard but certainly the way we were serve is definitely way
behind some great Chinese restaurant locally, at least they do
better service and food and best of all no corkage from
BYO and you are serve with superb crystal
wine glass.
