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2014-05-16
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Recalling my vivid memory from a few years ago, it wasn't a pleasant visit at applegreen in Grand century plaza due to the staff's bad attitude and the food qualities weren't up to standard. However, I heard from my friends that applegreen has opened a new casual restaurant named R&B recently and the food qualities were much better than applegreen. So I decided to try out later. Firstly, I would like to give you some background information about this place, R&B means ‘research and bakery', it ma
However, I heard from my friends that applegreen has opened a new casual restaurant named R&B recently and the food qualities were much better than applegreen. So I decided to try out later.
Firstly, I would like to give you some background information about this place, R&B means ‘research and bakery', it mainly focused on fresh bakery and kitchen creativity. At R&B, all of the food were made from natural ingredients.
Secondly, R&B was located on the third floor in a commercial building at Tsim sha Tsui, if you knew the location of applegreen, it would be much easier to find because R&B was in the same building as applegreen and just one level above it.
When I stepped out of the lift, there was a big black and white flashy logo "R&B" in front of us,
you just need to walk up a few steps and turn left, you will see a spacious casual dining area with just a few chairs and tables lining up where there were lots of rooms in between. Also, there was a open kitchen in front of the dining area as well.
Finally, here came the menu, it was just a one size page but it basically covered a variety of food from 'farm-to-table' californian cuisine such as burgers, steaks, salads and seafood.
We finally made up our mind to order a bit of everything. Firstly, we ordered the 'Clams Dynamite' as our appetizer, this came with eight pieces and on top of each clams,mozerella cheese and garlic oil had been added. Firstly, I found that the clams were juicy and chewy without the seasoning. In addition, they mixed with the mozerella cheese, mayonnaise and some garlic oil and put in the oven for baking. The results turned to be quite different, the colour turns to be slightly golden brown on the surface, very soft, creamy and moist texture on the inside. However, it would be perfect if it was served in a hot temperature not just a warm one.
Secondly, I loved having egg benedict so much, so I insisted my friend to order the Buttermilk fried chicken benedict. Unlike most of the egg benedict that I had so far, the egg benedict usually came with salmon or ham. However, this time it came with fried chicken which I found was quite different. The texture of the fried chicken was tender, juicy and moist yet the egg benedict wasn't much runny style enough and couldn't find a hint of hollandaise sauce either. Also, they have used their homemade biscuit as their sandwiches, the texture and thickness were so similar as scallion scones, crispy and slightly dense on the outside, moist and buttery on the inside .
Since my friend loved steak so much, this time was her turn to order steak frites. This time, boneless short ribs were chosen as part of the steak and cut into 5-6 pieces when it was served. In addtion, slow cooking method was used in one of the cooking techniques, as a result, the meat texture was so tender, chewy and moist though slightly a bit dry and lack of flavouring itself. As for side dish, it came with thin and long cut french fries and a small plate of garlic avoli. The fries were quite crispy on the exterior, not fluffy enough on the interior and a bit too oily. However, personally prefer to have potato wedges.
I started feeling quite thirsty while I was in the middle of the meal, so I decided to order something to drink. When I looked at the beverages, the choices of selecting "R&B favourites" were quite attracted to me such as "Homemade soda pop". "Hot orange chocolate" and "Ice cube + milk". Finally I decided to order the "Ice cube +milk" which you have two choices available to choose for this drink: chocolate or coffee. So I chose chocolate. This drink came with two bottles separately in a small tray and a small plate with some orange peel.
Finally, it's showtime!! Firstly, you poured the bottle with warm milk in it and mixed with the bottle which had chocolate ice cubes.
Also, put the orange peel and peppermint leaves together as well. Secondly, stirred the bottle that had chocolate ice cubes in it. As a result, chunks of chocolate cubes gradually melting slowly. As you might know, peppermint produced both flavours of bitterness and freshness itself which orange peel had both sweet and sour flavours.Therefore, both of the garnishes balanced out the richness and bitterness of chocolate ice cubes.
Finally, we never finish our meal without dessert since we loved dessert so much. However, we were having difficulties in choosing one of the desserts because all of them sound so tempting. At last we made up our mind ordering the cheezy peanut butter pie. It comprised of four layers in total; white thick marshmellows were on the top layer, follow by chocolate truffle on the second layer, peanut butter was on the middle layer and finish off as a cookie pastry. The texture started off with a creamy, moist and slightly sweet layer with marshmellows and chocolate truffle, once it reached to peanut butter layer, the distinct smell of peanut butter has became richer. Also, the pie was moist, fluffy and very dense. In addition, the dense of the pie remained very constant when it reached to the very bottom of it .
Overall, in terms of food and ambience, the food qualities in general were quite good and some of the food presentation was quite creative yet some of them still needed some improvement. As for ambience, it's good to have a spacious dining area where you can sit back and relax your meal with a group of friends.
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However, one of the staff misunderstood the difference between "Manhattan clams chowder " and "clams dynamite" which is on the menu in the seafood column when we ordered it. So we have to verify in which one we were going to order to avoid misunderstanding. Therefore, I thought staff training was necessary in this case.
(The above review is the personal opinion of a user which does not represent OpenRice's point of view.)
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