Sunday Roast at the Ritz Carlton in Kuala Lumpur has been a cherished experience for us over the years. In keeping with outstanding experiences in the past, we chose it for the Easter Sunday lunch in April earlier this year and found it to be exemplary as usual in The Cobalt Room location. The Sunday Roast was, therefore, an automatic choice to celebrate out 36th wedding anniversary and we were looking forward to the pleasure from the event as usual. This time around the location was The Library (our first chance to attend in this room). The food and service was outstanding as usual but what marred the experience for us was the bizarre arrangement in that guests staying at the hotel walk through The Library to get to the elevators to their rooms. There was a steady stream of hotel guests walking through the middle of The Library with their luggage, strollers, etc throughout the dining experience but things got totally unacceptable close to the check in time for the hotel when large groups of hotel guests started to navigate through The Library with the bellboys carrying their luggage in tow.In my so many years of fine dining experience around the world, I cannot recall anywhere where the only access for hotel guests was routed through the middle of a fine dining restaurant affecting the privacy of the diners. Not sure what the RC KL management had in mind while setting up the arrangement for hotel guests in their state of informality to travel through highly formal fine dining mood in The Library. Under present circumstances, I will limit my participation in the Sunday Roast at RC Kuala Lumpur to the annual Sunday Easter lunch in the hope that the event will get held at The Cobalt Room location.
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