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2012-06-17
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Dinner was arranged via "friendly connection" that night. I love spanish food and was excited when heard that someone booked a newly opened spanish restaurant owned by a friend.Decoration probably already lowered our expectation when we stepped into the restaurant. not really worth to further comment on the ambience. Food comment: - OVER CHARGED BUT UNDER DELIVERED1. garlic tomato paste on sliced baguette - the bread slice was cold, soaky water soft - kind of disgusting pink look.2. mussel in
Decoration probably already lowered our expectation when we stepped into the restaurant. not really worth to further comment on the ambience.
Food comment: - OVER CHARGED BUT UNDER DELIVERED
1. garlic tomato paste on sliced baguette - the bread slice was cold, soaky water soft - kind of disgusting pink look.
2. mussel in pot - before it arrived on the table, we smell something like "dirty toilet drainage" was taken out from the kitchen. Mussel was not fresh and bad probably most mussel dead for a long time. i had nerve to try one and was my last but bad memory still lingers in my taste bud and head whole night. very chewy, dried, overcook. perhaps the cook misbelieve chinese like the rotten taste of "smelly tofu" in all dishes. otherwise it makes no sense for a cook to allow it to come out from his kitchen.
3. boneless chicken wing stuffed with pear and apple strip - creative combination but poor ingredients and poor execution. certainly from frozen chicken. the skin was not properly roasted and the skin fat is too thick. no heart in cooking.
4. garlic pawn - far from good. no taste of garlic. merely pawn in hot oil. but pawn texture is good
5. spanish omelette - ok but cold
6. seafood paella - sub-standard because the seafood (shrimp, squid, scampi) was totally not fresh but soft and chewy. the worse was the frozen green pea in the rice. you know what i meant by "frozen green pea" - hard, tasteless, dry, powdery. all seafood are very bad.
7. mushroom in oil - normal and acceptable.
8. serrano - no taste and dry. no iberico ham. poor quality
We were given free sangria each but one is more than enough as it didnt taste right. one good comment is that the there were different variety of frunit which were chopped into properly sized cubic. Although we could order all we could eat for that night's special menu but each of us merely had a bite of each dish. The bright side is we achieved the normally impossible, that is under-eat.
Wine menu - all under HKD200 choice unknown spanish wine. - did not dare to order.
Given the poor quality but for the sake of friendly connection, we could only swallow the situation (not the food). The "friend" (restaurant owner) dared to bill us a price level of a Fofo or ole dinner (without wine) without shame and in cash. This absolutely boiled my blood immediately. For such quality, i would not eat there even for free. i could only comfort myself that i probably owe this guy in my previous life.
Strictly not recommend to try, even for free.
No dish was up to any average standard. waiting time for each dish is too long. it claims it is spanish private kitchen at night by reservation only.
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