whine and din at the ribshop

i really have no beef with the rib shop since it opened a couple of years ago. the food is great and the wines superb.
but the wine-and-dine rib speciality restaurant in medan damansara didn't score full marks last night. their most under-rated speciality, chilled australian tenderloin beef in red wine sauce didn't taste as good as it did previously.
well, to put it mildly, the red wine was missing from this mouth-watering delicately medium-to-welldone roasted chunk of meat garnished with sauteed mushrooms and potato cubes in red wine sauce.
maybe chef danny liew was missing too.
an off day for both the chef and the dish.
could that be possible? i didn't bother to find out.
thankfully, the fettucine with crispy bacon, creamy parmagianno and a dash of nutmeg made up for the dinner as diners at another table put on their party hats, clinked their glasses and sang happy birthday as they busily snapped away with their cameraphones.
the pasta dish was splendid with its creamy cheesy flavour meshing well with the crispy crunchy bacon and the al dente fettucine.
just what i needed to offset the disappointing tenderloin.
the saving grace was the beef carpaccio remains without equal among the few places i have had this wonderfully simple dish of slices of beef, lemon juice and olive oil with scattered slices of heavenly parmagianno cheese and garnished with rocket.
and the wine of the day? well, the wine shop people had said it was an argentinian wine but that went missing too.
to my surprise, and subsequent delight, the house wine was a wonderful medium bodied haywood cabernet sauvignon 2001. a refreshing and spicy wine, it had flavours of berry and pepper plus hints of vanilla and oak.
had two glasses. nice.
the rib shop is at 120-122 jalan kasah, medan damansara. its open for lunch 12.00 to 2.30pm and dinner 6.00pm to 10.30pm. wines from the wine shop can be consumed in the restaurant without any corkage.