Tonight, Tonight, Won't Be Just Any Night

...tonight we celebrate NJAPF's birthday (a nice lass, so we shan't reveal age here). The venue: Nerovivo. Even with lad's directions, we couldn't picture where it was supposed to be - if only he mentioned Changkat Bukit Bintang much earlier we would have been able to place it as 'on the same street as Frangipani's and El Cerdo' or something. But since a fair few of us didn't know where it was, we all ended up car pooling which was a good thing to do.

Found the place in time, and walked into a cozy dimly-lit restaurant stocked full of wine bottles. Cozy as it was the lighting conditions were rather poor so most of the time we tried taking photos we ended up blinding our subjects with our flash.

Everyone arrived soon enough and after extensive browsing of the menu, we decided that we all should just order some dishes and share among the 10 of us. Somehow the drinks menu, equally extensive, ended up in our hand. Initial decision to let Lemon randomly poke at the drinks menu was rejected when he somehow manage to finger a bottle worth about RM1200. Somehow we managed to settle on a Chardonnay Pinot Bianco, to be shared by everyone (yes, a bit ku hon to share a bottle by 10 people but there you go).

As for food, we all thought that a soup, 2 salads, 2 pastas and 2 pizzas would suffice. While the broccolli soup turned out watery and tasteless (we're not sure what went wrong but no one complained :P) while the rest of dinner turned out excellent. We don't know really what was ordered but there was a ravioli dish with carbonara sauce that saw four of us sharing a single piece of ravioli, excellent salads, an angel hair dish where we only had 5 strands of angel hair and a scallop, and 2 slices of pizza.

All so that everyone could have a taste of each dish. :) Will need to check with Juangtis for the receipt if we want to know what the specific dishes were. But as everything (save soup) was good you can't go wrong ordering anything (again, soup).

After that another 2 more pizzas were ordered. And amazingly we made our little bit of wine last until the end of dinner.

Nerovivo's a great place for food, just that food sharing falls short of feeding 10 people - it's more suited for a group of four or five people. We think it's worth another visit in smaller company. Oh, and Nerovivo gets another thumbs-up from us for having wifi access - we were actually surfing online to search for reviews and for recommended dishes of the place when we were there. :P

After dinner the staff came sailing in singing the birthday song for NJAPF bearing a birthday cake and a confectionary doll named Dion (is this going to be traditional too?). We're not sure what happened to Dion - did NJAPF eat her? And isn't that the same birthday cake that Esteban got?

After dinner the original plan was to head to Tiff's Jazz Lounge for more drinks and chitchat, but as the roads were congested we all decided to head to TTDI Plaza instead. After a bit of looking around we ended up at Breeze, the chillout joint at the centre court. Breeze is quiet enough to allow conversation, but suffers from having music coming from all directions - you'll be hearing what Bamboo, Sports Bar and all the other pubs and joints are playing that you'd soon learn to tune out sound.

After drinks and sufficient yawning, it's time for everyone to head back.

Happy birthday NJAPF! Since you also malu show face so we cannot put up any pictures ya. :P