Kubiot mini Review

Kubiot is a new concept bar-restaurant that serves everything in the shape of squares. Since I’ve first read about this place, I wanted to go check it out. Eventually we went there as a girls’ night out.

The menu: you suppose to choose the main dish and side dish, and it always comes with salad, 2 sauces and a chocolate square to finish with. We went for the red tuna squares with baked potato squares (40 nis). Somebody raised the doubt that it was a cooked tuna so we asked the waiter if it’s raw and we were answered that it’s just seared. This place is also known for their low cost beers and beverages, but unfortunately that specific evening the higher priced beers were all there was. So me and Chen split one big bottle of Mc-Chouffe Belgian beer (38 nis).

I asked about the sauces and I was told that the chef decides which two sauces will go well with the dish so I won’t have to choose. What arrived you can see on the next picture. It was almost cooked through tuna! I was a bit disappointed and Tamar couldn’t hide her un-satisfaction of the taste of the tuna. The baked potatoes were mushy and not tasty, didn’t even come in the shape of squares. The other dish we took with fries that were a lot better.

When we told the waiter that we are not so pleased with the cooking degree of the dish he suggested to serve it again, less cooked. I asked one dish to be totally raw. It came back like this:

It was better than the former form that’s for sure. The slightly seared second dish was an improvement as well. The fish here wasn’t in the quality that should be eaten that raw, but I guess for that price you can’t expect it to be. Anyway, it was better but the sauces were not matched well. one was vinaigrette that tasted like a salad dressing and the other was sweet tariaki. We were not offered other sauces and didn’t feel like asking again after replacing the dishes so I had to put salt (!!!) over my tuna. The salad was fine but in the other dish we discovered a living beetle inside the lettuce. Well, I said it’s better than finding a dead one, but still we prefer neither. We didn’t say anything because it was almost the end of the meal.

The beer was very good, I like dark Belgian beers.

At midnight exactly we were given the bill before asking, saying they are closed now. The waiter said that now he will bring us the chocolate squares. We payed and waited for the change. Waited a bit more for the chocolate and eventually forgot about it, as did the waiter, and left the place to eat ice-cream in the closed by Sicilian ice-cream (forgot to take a pic but it’s a good ice-cream place!)

Well, all in all I was a bit disappointed of the experience and hope we just had bad luck. For a place that has a slogan that says: “we don’t round the corners” – they did just that. We didn’t even get to taste the dessert due to the un-professional waitering. Thanks to the girls and the beer, the night was saved!