Charcoal BBQ & Grill

I went to have lunch with my friend based on my treat, and he decided to choose one of the high-classed Western restaurants here in Brunei, which is Charcoal BBQ & Grill.

This be the signboard and entrance of Charcoal. It's situated somewhere in Jalan Tutong, in a block a little bit up the hill 5 minutes-walk away from where Lucky Restaurant was situated. It's well known to have the best steaks that can rival Sheraton Hotel's (now known as Raddison due to ownership takeover) and known for its bloody hell high price. The last time I came here was with my hubby when we were still dating and we were celebrating our couple anniversary together, and the portion was big-ass huge and totally worth the money, though it's still a bit too high. It was my treat actually, but since I didn't bring out enough money, my friend is willing to fork out partial of it since he really had a craving for Charcoal XD

Yummy grand entrance

Went trigger-happy on a cool old-school popcorn machine

This be the interior and decors of the restaurant. My friend said funnily that he had this really nagging feeling that when we entered, all eyes were on us, like those old-school Wild Wild West movies where all eyes turn to you when you enter the bar or something. I barely noticed, since I was used to stares and was being trigger-happy and have learnt to ignore them. LOL XD

But seriously, this place does give off a very modern yet classy feel to it, almost retro in retrospect (no pun intended), like one of those American dine-ins style. It was almost full-house coz of lunch hour, and you can really hear the hustle-bustle of the restaurant as the waiter/waitresses walked around serving while the customers chatted as they ate. Really feels like an American dine-in

Another trigger-happy moment of their ingredients on display

Couldn't resist trigger-happy on this

Since I was practically broke in a sense, we decided to order the $8.60 set lunch, that came with a free drink that tastes almost like a sparkling guava drink or something. Blergh, not exactly the best tasting fizzy, but it's still drinkable

Appetizers while waiting for our food, which is basically friend tofu skin to imitate nachos

Here be our food, which is both beef steak. The meat was actually pretty small, and cooked to medium, more or less, but it was nice and thick and juicy, so still worth the money, though I wonder what the heck was that on the meat. It didn't seem like garlic, but it doesn't taste like avacado as my friend claims. And their radish is just big-ass HUGE!! What are they, having a surplus on radish and want to get rid of it or something? It also doesn't help that radishes is not exactly my fav veggie. I don't mind eating it, it's just not my fav XP

This be our drink: Cafe Au Lait and Cafe Latte. According to my friend, they're both the same, meaning coffee with milk. Only his is French while mine is Italian. LOL! Had to add sugar coz it's bloody bitter, though I think the coffee still ends up overpowering the sugar... -_-'''

If you have a fat wallet and have a craving for awesome-tastic Western food but don't want to have too much of a fine dining in hotels, you can come here, but only approach if you feel rich.