Uptown Cafe, Johor Bahru

I'm back in my hometown for Chinese New Year and have been baking a lot these days, so much till I feel full by just looking at the cookies made LOL Being back home also means that I get to laze around, not work and don't feel guilty for not working. 

So I was cleaning up pictures in my phone and realised that I have not blogged about this cafe. Been procrastinating because the food was so bad, I didnt feel motivated to write a review on it. Anyway, to not waste picture here we go!

Uptown Cafe

66 Jalan Pertama 1

Pusat Perdagangan Danga Utama

Entrance of Uptown Cafe

If you haven't noticed, there are many cafe sprouting like mushroom after the rain! not just in KL but in Penang and Johor Bahru too. I think it was Christmas so my sis and I wanted to have something different for lunch and we decided on Uptown Cafe because it was relatively new then.

I think the location is very good in the sense that it's located near the highway, just turn in from the highway and you will be a able to spot it on your left, very close to Shell petrol station nearby.

Also, since the shop is situated at a new commercial area there is no problem finding parking! Ample of parking lots so no stress to that.

A few pictures of the interior of Uptown Cafe:

Two level dining area

Bamboo shoots to welcome you right at the entrance then you see modern designs on the wall

Several kinds of lamps and lightings. This cafe confuses me LOL

Oh ya, these are the modern designed walls

Not too sure if the deco was done by a professional but it didn't work for me. Made me very confused on what to expect from the cafe- it's very chinese (bamboo, lanterns, red cloths) yet very westernised (modern wall deco, chairs and tables).

Actually before even stepping into the cafe I was confused already by the food theme. Not sure what cuisine they are aiming to specialised in? There was thing huge ass banner outside the shop that listed out their menu. I see western, chinese and... Malaysian meals:S

Fish & Chips RM17

Decided to have something safe and went with Fish and Chips. Food arrived pretty late so I was expecting good wait-worthy food. Not too sure if they breaded their own fish or just fry those prepacked type but it was not too bad. The potato wedges was good but those are off from frozen packs, hence nothing to shout about. Salad was done in house for sure, vege came in chunks:S Not too sure why they wouldn't use a grater and make life easier?

I thought that the meal was rather pricey because I'm footing RM17 for a rather small portion of Fish and Chips. Then we also ordered pizza for RM20 which turned out extremely bad.

US Chicken Pizza RM20

Funny, the story of the pizza. The menu stated only the name of the pizza without the description of it so I had to ask the waitress what do they served in the US Chicken pizza. I remember her clearly saying "Chicken... tomato". I assumed that maybe she wasn't very fluent in English so she just gave short answers.

When the pizza came, OMG it looked so sad... worst than the Jusco's bakery pizza! When we had a bite guess what? The waitress was spot on, I could only taste chicken and tomato. Very bland tasting pizza and the chicken bits tasted weird. Got a chunk of chicken with smelly fats on, I was so turned off and angry.

How can you let this dish come out of your kitchen and charge your customer RM20 (excluding tax). It should at least be of Dominos/ Pizza Hut standard! I mean those are very commercialised tasting pizzas but at least it works better than this in house sloppy made pizza.

Yup, I had to spit out the chicken that tasted and smelled really awful

One slice was without chicken or tomato, just skinny cheese :O

Never ever going back there anymore! My friend been there for coffee and I don't remember her complaining so maybe if you're there for coffee it's still fine but food... a NO NO. Good thing we didn't give the desserts a chance because it looked pretty sad on display.