If recently anyone ask me, “Which place would you recommend for a romantic dinner?”, I’d definitely suggest The Sire Museum Restaurant. Are you getting any confuse; is it a museum or a restaurant? It’s both actually.

The Sire Museum Restaurant is previously the house of Yeap Chor Ee. His grandson ‘transformed’ his house into a museum based restaurant to commemorate Yeap Chor Ee’s birthday. The restaurant has a very cosy and romantic environment. The moment I entered this restaurant, I’ve fallen in luv with it. It was warmly lighted with soft music playing in the background.

As we were being seated at the inner part of the restaurant, I noticed that there is another hall which lead to the museum. The museum of peranakan (baba & nyonya). In the museum, there are a series of facts on how Mr. Yeap Chor Ee begin his career. It was very inspiring! There are a lot more things to be seen in the museum, guess you’ll enjoy it more if you find if out yourself then I describing it here.

We were served with nicely baked baguette. It’s crispy and tasted cheesy. I like it!

Wild Mushroom Soup (RM 15.80) served with rich cream and rye bread. The mushroom soup is thick and fragrant. I’d be more happy if the rye bread can be exchange with the toasted baguette.

Tenderloin Medallions (RM 49.80) was ordered medium well. The steak is juicy but not the best that I’ve tasted.

But Birthday girl wanted to have light dinner and she prefer Manila Place. Well, birthday girl is the queen of the night right. So Manila Place it is.

Browsing thru the menu, I got attracted by the 100% fresh fruit juice with NO sugar added.

Birthday girl and me ordered Pineapple + guava + orange + lemon (if I remember correctly). It tasted sourish with minimal sweetness. So tasty yet healthy!

The carrot + lemon juice tasted weird Carrot taste does not blend with lemon.

Since birthday girl wanted to eat light, she ordered only sandwich. The sandwich is pretty standard. Oh! I love the side dish (potato wedges). The outer layer is very crispy and the inner potato is fluffy.

Seafood Tom Yam Noodle doesn’t disappoint us. The soup is sourish and not very spicy.

It comes with mussels, prawns, mushrooms and some chicken breast fillet.

My friend is so excited to see the big prawns and asked me to snap a picture of it.

I ordered fruit salad. I love this fruit salad especially the tangy orange like salad dressing. It’s very appetizing! The lettuce and fruits are fresh as well.

The restaurant is lighted with warm light and very comfortable to dine in. It’s a cosy place for a romantic couple dinner or a gathering dinner of friends and colleagues.

My birthday dinner this year is a very memorable one. My bf treated me a meal at Hard Rock Cafe.

I just love the environment there. Yellow and warm lightings created a cosy ambient in the restaurant. Every night, starting from 10.30pm onwards, there will be a live band performing in the restaurant. This creates a more lively ambient.

Most of the drinks in the menu has alcoholic content in it. As I am allergy to alcohol, I ordered something fruity and without any alcohol. Berrilicious is the name of the drink.

Berrilicious has fresh strawberry and orange juice blended with raspberry syrup. It tasted like sugus candy with strawberry flavour to me.

Mango Berry Cooler tasted fruity to me. It’s actually a blend of fresh mango, strawberries, pineapple juice and orange juice. I like it!

For these drinks, you can opt it to be served in those Martini Glass, Hurricane Glass, Margarita Glass and etc. But of course, the charges will be different then.

I ordered Legendary 10 oz Burger. The serving size is huge with a large amount of fries. This is my first time eating burger in a western restaurant. Therefore, there isn’t any benchmark taste for me.

The burger has seasoned bacon, 2 slices of Cheddar cheese, a fried onion ring, lettuce, tomato and pickles. The patty is a thick one and if it’s just to be eaten on its own, it’s less flavorful. But when I ate it with all the toppings especially the juicy onion ring, it tasted good! Sweet taste of onion blended well with the patty.

In conjunction with Christmas,  The Brasserie at Traders Hotel offers Festive Semi Buffet Lunch for the whole month of December.

The Brasserie is located at level 2 of Traders Hotel.

Here are some shots of the restaurant’s interior look:

The cold cuts section offers chicken ham, smoked duck breast, smoked chicken breast, etc. Smoked duck breast is my favourite.

Assorted sushi with condiments.

Smoky Jack offers 3 categories of set lunch; Set A: RM 15.80++, Set B: RM18.80++ and Set C: RM 25.80 – Rm 28.80. Their set lunch comes with either soup of the day or salad and dessert. There’s no drink comes together with their set lunch though. 

Complimentary bread which tasted good. 

I chose soup instead of salad. The soup tasted creamy. 

YH had salad. Orange sauce were used instead of the normal mayo or thousand island. It’s something new to us, but it tasted very appetizing due to the sourish orange sauce. The sauce blended well with the fresh vege too.

I had Grilled Cod Fish. The portion is small. The cod fish itself had a smooth texture, but it tasted slightly saltier. The in house red pepper sauce make it even saltier.

Lene had Hungarian Baked Chicken. It’s basically look like a grilled chicken with brown sauce to me. 

YH had Grilled Salmon with Hollandaise Sauce. The salmon portion looks more satisfying than my cod fish portion. The marinated salmon fillet tasted slightly saltier to me, but YH didn’t mention about the saltiness. Guess it suited her tastebud. The salmon fillet was grilled with a good timing, as the meat was smooth. 

If compare with  cod fish, I would prefer cod fish texture though.

The dessert which consist of a few pieces of fruits and a piece of cake. Nothing much to brag about this, but I was kinda disappointed with the dessert. Although it’s a complimentary with the set lunch, I was hoping for something more outstanding. 

This remind me of the dessert served with the set dinner I had in Bravo Italiana. The dessert taste still linger in my mind. 

But the service on that day slighlty disappointed me. We were not approached by any waiter the moment we entered the restaurant. We were actually walking around and picked our own seats. Later, we were approached by one, and guide us to our seat.

We need to wait for quite sometime before we get the menu. The waiters were like in a total chaos when they serve the food to customer on that day. I wonder why… The situation and service was good during my first visit which is during dinner hour. Wonder what happened… 

The restaurant contact # and business hours:

Smoky Jack Ribs & Steakhouse
3H-3I, Upper Penang Road
10000 Georgetown
Tel: 04-2628826
Business Hours:
Lunch: 12.00pm – 3.00pm
Dinner: 6.00pm – 10.30pm

Click here for map.

From the exterior, you’ll see a lot of tree branches ‘growing’ out from the restaurant. CreepY?

This restaurant is located at Upper Penang Road just beside Segafredo. No problem to locate this restaurant right. Anyway, as usual I’ll post a link of the map to it at the end of the post. So, no worry ya

Let’s talk about food before I proceed with the interior environment. When we entered the restaurant that Friday night, the restaurant was quite packed with customers. And we noticed that there’s a few tables were put under reservation. We were seated in a table which is suppose to cater for 4 person. Since the tables for 2 are fully occupied, it left us no choice.

Soon after we had our order taken, we were served with plain water. Then we were served with some complimentary breads. It comes with 3 types of butter (sweet butter, spinach flavour butter and garlic flavour butter). I like the sweet butter, it’s like we spread some butter on our bread, then sprinkle with sugar on top. That’s how it tasted. My bf said the garlic butter tasted nice, with just the right hint of garlic scent in it. I will shun away from garlic smell, so I never try this butter.

Smoky Duck Breast is filed under appertizer menu. The meat was tender and the chef able to maintain the juiciness of the duck breast. The taste is pretty similar to bacon, just that the thickness of this duck breast is thicker than bacon. Thumbs up for this dish. It’s my favourite dish of the night!

It’s dressed with some honey mustard sauce, but I feel that it’s already taste so good even without any sauce.

Boston Clam Chowder. Upon ordering this dish, we were told that we need to wait for 15 – 20 mins. Wonder why it takes so long… is it due it takes time to make the pastry?

Once this dish being served on our table, I can smell the fragrant of the pastry. But too bad that I can’t dig my spoon right away as I need to take a few shots prior eating. The pastry is indeed fluffy and fragrant with butter scent. The cream soup tasted normal for me, but it’s kinda pretty bland for my bf. There are some carrots, potatoes and squids in the soup. But I can’t find any clams. My bf claimed that he ate one. I ordered Clam Chowder, didn’t I?

We ordered one set dinner and one Ala ca rte.
Prawn dipper is one of the choices of appetizer of the set dinner. The size of the prawn dipper is quite small. Don’t get cheated by my picture ya. hehehe

Although the size is tiny but the taste is good. Bits of prawn can be found inside.
BBQ half chicken was served with baked potato and vegetables. The chicken taste good, but when it come to breast, the meat is slightly dry. The served pumpkin as one of the vegetable, which is something new to me. Or they are running out of carrots? hehe…

Grilled fish with sambal. When I ordered this, I thought the fish would be topped with sambal then being grilled. But when the dish arrived, the sambal is served separately.

Anyway, it’s a very delicious dish. The fish is slightly crispy on top and very tender and juicy inside. Even without dipping it into the sambal, it tasted so good.

A single scoop of vanilla ice-cream is the dessert for the set dinner. The ice cream is top with a layer of frozen chocolate.

It’s dessert time. I ordered sticky chewy chocolate. This is very interesting for a chocolate fan like myself. Very thick chocolate flavour ice cream with some chocolate chip on top. Everything is chocolate. Even the cherry and the waffle is coated with chocolate.
We’ve spend Rm75++ for the dinner. Thus we got RM70 cash voucher which we can use during our next visits.

This time I visited the branch at Qbay. It was Friday night and not much people were sitting in the cafe.

We ordered 2 main course and one drink which is Goldilock Freeze. It’s a mock cocktail which means no alcohol. It tasted like mango yogurt to me with some jelly thingy inside it.

I ordered Baked Dory glazed with Lime Chili Sauce. This is available in a set (come with a soup). The price is even cheaper by RM1 compare to the ala carte. So, I’ve ordered the set instead of ala carte. As for ala carte, a scoop of ice cream will be given as a complimentary.

The serving size is very big consist of a big piece of dory fish and a medium portion of spaghetti with some vegetables. It’s less oily which is a very healthy dish. The fish is very tender with no fishy smell. As spelled in the dish name, lime chilli sauce were used. This make the fish very appetising.

As for BBQ Half Chicken with Smoked BBQ Sauce, this is only available in ala carte. The half chicken is served with some butter rice and garden salad. This taste is okay. The breast meat is too dry to me even though I like breast meat.
The soup was served last. Hmm.. weird.. I suppose the soup should be served first? It’s just a normal borsch soup. I thought they would serve cream soup. This soup taste normal only. Anyway, it’s free. Hehe

I ordered mango madness. Mango flavour ice-cream topped with strawberry, mango syrup and cream. This ice-cream is simple yet tasty. Rich in mango flavour.

p/s: why is the picture I’ve taken is yellowish? Any advice for me?

First came the sausage. Smell so tasty It’s served with hash potato & chicken ham.

Overall, I like the food there. I will definitely go back and try more. Pancakes… !! I’m coming!!!