Terrace Grille at Marriott Hotel

Inviting me out for dinner at a fancy restaurant every month end has been sort of a regular thing now for 'the Tart', for which i am of course so sweetly enamoured by. Last month we dined in The Globe (Faisaliah Tower), a place that we have always wanted to try out and experience. Well, The Globe did not disappoint. Wasn't able to make a post about it because i did not get any one decent picture at that time.

But i digress.

So yesterday, 'the Tart' invited me for dinner again, this time in the Terrace Grille in Marriott Hotel. Marriott Hotel is quaint, first time to really go there.

Terrace Grille's ambiance is nice; i just wished they had more space to make the seating arrangements more private, i mean we were dining beside some group of Ladies, and in this part of the world, that's a bit unconventional.

We ordered Black Angus Tenderloin and Rib Eye. Mine's supposed to be the Rib Eye but i implored 'the Tart' to let me have the Tenderloin because i just didn't find the presentation of the Rib Eye delectable at all.

Here are a couple of pictures that i took. (Sorry for the crappy pictures, it was dimly purplish inside the restaurant and i never bring my DSLR when we go out to dine in restaurants because 1) i think its impolite to just shoot food pictures to my hearts content and 2) i'm not a food blogger. )

Black Angus Rib Eye

Decorative Hanging Light Unit, a bit old-ish i think.

Just a lamp.

The future of restaurants?

I and my friends used to joke about dining in a fancy and technologically advanced restaurant where the menu is digitally projected on top of the table (a bit closer to the MS Surface concept probably) and you just have to click on the food of your choice and then after a few minutes it'll be served not thru a waiter but will sort of ascend from within the center of the table .

While it is within the above context, this technology advanced restaurant (below) seems to be closer to what we have in mind.

The restaurant is called Inamo in London UK with interactive projections on the tables. It is designed by interior architecture and design office Blacksheep.

A projector and computer are suspended above each table; customers can use a touch panel to order food, access the kitchen webcam, play games, change the pattern projected onto the corian table top and source local information. ViaDezeen and Crave UK.

Video Demo

• Inamo restaurant's interactive tables
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