First got to know this place through a friend's baby first birthday celebration. Nice, big restaurant for big gatherings and functions.

The duck linguine is good, but in general rather pricey for the portions. Overall was still okay.

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Parking is very easy to find - not too expensive also.

I shared a few starters with my friends and had the bourbon ribs for mains. I like the beef ribs and would go back there again for the ribs and fries. :)

The band was quite average though - but I suppose the food is the main thing!

Lighting is quite dim - which can be a good thing i suppose but I wish it was a little bit brighter out on the patio.

The place was crowded at 7.45pm on a Friday night but we didn’t have to wait to get a table for 4. Going to keep the review short since almost every dish is salty (and my salt intake tolerance is actually quite high)!

Pork ribs - their “asian sauce” is like a poorer version of bak kut teh and yes, it’s salty!

Bourbon beef ribs – dry and salty!

Beef scallopini- the beef is tender but the cream based sauce is salty

Capellini Nero- squid ink pasta is salty

Chicken wings- juicy but salty!

Accompanying fries (for beef ribs) - they actually fried the fries in bacon which makes the fries taste absolutely heavenly and it’s salty (worse than MacDonald’s liberal usage of salt). The beacon is salty and they sprinkled more salt onto the fries!

The saving grace is their desserts- the brownie is heavenly and moist (lots of restaurants reheats it, making the brownie very dry) and the crust for its apple crumble is simply delicious on its own!

Other than a high risk of salt OD, the service from the staffs is really bad! We had problems getting their attention despite our tables just near the bar counter and the kitchen. The staff simply walked past us despite our gesturing and our polite “excuse me..”, “hellos..”.

We also had to wait an additional 30mins after our brownie arrived for the apple crumble even though we explicitly told them to prepare and serve us the deserts midway through our meals! There’s not even a word of apologies and the staffs did not even bother to update us on the status!

I’ll never go back again as the price is not cheap, service is bad and food is salty. And this is the third time I went to Hosted (see my earlier review of the place) within a year and things didn’t improve at all.