Red Rock Hotel at Macalister Road is currently having a lunch promotion starting at RM 7.80 nett at their Cafe & Lounge. It is on-going daily, including weekends. It’s a very attractive promo and since we have not tried it before, we took our chances.
 
 
 
 
Set Lunch Menu
4 sets (3 subsets each) to choose from:
Set A - Spaghetti with Nipolony Sauce/ Chicken Chop with Mango Sauce/ Seafood Basil Mushroom Sauce with Pineapple Rice
Set B - Black Pepper Chicken in Nyonya Style/ Steam Rice with Chicken Breast in mango Sauce/ Seafood Spaghetti with Basil Mushroom Sauce
Set C - Chicken Wing with Pumpkin Sauce/ Marinated Chicken with Pumpkin Sauce/ Seafood Spaghetti
Set D (forgot the menu, sorry)
 
 
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 Non-promo menu
 
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Setting
 
 
 
Start of with a drink of Fruit Juice. Real fruit juice that is.
A choice of guava, orange, mango. You can also opt for coffee or tea.
 
 
Soup of the day (combination of mushroom, corn and onion soup)
Yes, it sounds weird and you might think it will even taste weird. But surprisingly it turned out alright. Just the right balance of each without any overpowering taste.
 
 
 
 
Seafood Spaghetti
From the photo in the menu, we thought this would be a good choice. But the outcome was nothing like we expected. The spaghetti was in bits and pieces and didn’t look appetizing!! (reminds me of the one cariso had?)
The seafood of fish fillet and prawns are deep-fried.
 
Seafood Spaghetti with Basil Mushroom Sauce
This was much better. Basil mushroom sauce was set aside for your quantity preference. The seafood is the same for all sets, fish fillet and prawns.They are generous with the amount of seafood. That, at least give them some good points.
 
 
 
Seafood Basil Mushroom Sauce with Pineapple Rice.
Mind you, it is not pineapple rice but more like turmeric rice. The rice is heavily infused with turmeric taste. I didn’t quite like it in the first few spoonful but soon, by adding the mushroom sauce, it taste much better. I guess it’s a preference, some might like it, some might not.
 
 
Chicken Chop with Mango Sauce
Deep fried chicken breast with mango sauce. Same set of rice as the above. I didn’t like the sauce. It doesn’t taste like mango. But my friend who ordered this said it was to her liking.
 
 
Promotion Flyer
 Note that there’s only one set which has an RM 7.80 price tag - the vegetarian set. All others are RM 9.80 nett.
 
 
We also had a confusion when the bill was brought. It showed all sets that we ordered is RM 8.53 each. We then call on the supervisor and ask why the discrepancy. And finally after some back and forth debate, they came up with the answer that RM 8.53 + 15% (10% service charge and 5% gov. tax) = RM 9.80.
Their computer billing system needs some upgrade don’t you think? 
 
Overall I think the environment is clean and cooling for a lunch with associates, price is also attractive considering it’s a set meal of drinks, starter and main course but there’s room for improvement in the food area.
 
Contact:
 Red Rock Cafe & Lounge
202A, Jalan Macalister, 10400
Penang
Tel:04-226 6060
 
Others:
-    Operation Hour from 7.00am – 11.00pm
-    Serve on Oriental and Western food
-    Buffet Breakfast Available from 7.00am  - 10.30am
-    Internet WIFI available 24 hours (2 hours – RM5.00nett & 24 hours – RM12.00nett)
 
GPS:
 
5°25.001 N   100°19.384 E
 
Map:
 
 
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