Fresca

Fresca
Location: The Gardens, Midvalley City, Kuala Lumpur
Date of Visit: 13th July 2013
>> To think of the things to eat for lunch in a place where you are spoiled for choice is extremely hard and having lunch with a bunch of people makes it even harder to find as restaurants and cafes are pretty much occupied during lunch hour on the weekends.

We chose Fresca, a Mexican kitchen and bar which is situated at the ground level of The Garden's shopping mall. Why? There's no why in the selection when you are merely following the bigger crowds choice. However, what I can say about this call is actually a good one. It has been ages since we last had Mexican food and it's extremely rare to get a good place serving such meals. Probably its due to the way spices are cooked.

Mexicans prefer to make salsa while we prefer to make sambal. You get where I'm getting at? As we were shown to our seats, it's quite noticeable that there's not much crowd in the restaurant. Ambiance wise, it's brightly lit as there's plenty of windows around the restaurant and I personally feel that the decorations quite matches how modern Mexican restaurants should be. The menu offers a number of authentic Mexican cuisines.

What we've ordered? For drinks, there's Aqua Fresca Limon, Orange Juice, Apple Juice and the usual caffeine Caffe Latte shot for my mom. For Botanas, we ordered Calamari Fritos which is fried squid rings with homemade tartare sauce. Botanas are Mexican small plate, commonly known as starters for many. As everyone had a heavy breakfast, hence Botanas were kept to a minimum which is quite a shame as there's a huge variety to choose from.

For Platos Principales or known as main courses, we ordered Chicken Burritos served with guacamole, pico de gallo and Mexican red rice; Chicken Enchiladas de Harina served with black beans, pico de gallo and side Mexican salad; Chicken Tortas or known as Mexican sandwich served with pico de gallo and tortilla chips; and of course Ensalada Cesar which commonly known as Caesar Salad. Again, I personally felt that the orders we made were pretty good.

The pico de gallo or known as salsa fresca, is made of chopped tomato, white onion and chilis. These little bowls of salsa are the best highlight from this place. Superbly fresh, tangy and packs a spicy punch. Gotta love it! All food were prepared in the right amount of time as it doesn't take too long for our food to be served to our table. The burritos were wrapped nicely and were panned to a nice colour while the rice is cooked perfectly.

For the Enchiladas, the poblano chile salsa sauce that went on top of the tortilla went perfectly well with the entire meal and the black beans maintained its clean taste. For the Chicken Tortas, the meat were properly marinated and grilled as the juiciness of the meat remained in the meat. Overall, the lunch turned out to be a nice meal and definitely craving for more. If I were to return, I would be dying to try their Curros con Chocolat, which I failed to do so this time.