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2011-01-22
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We booked Felix for our company Christmas Dinner to celebrate a very good year. 11 persons. The ambience was, as expected, very good so no criticisms there. Service was OK , but nothing special. But what REALLY HURT considering that we paid over HK$1,100 per head was how STINGY / SMALL the food was .......... AND THE COST OF THE BOTTLED WATER : HK$784 = USD100 just for 8 bottles which I am sure was just tap
We booked Felix for our company Christmas Dinner to celebrate a very good year. 11 persons. The ambience was, as expected, very good so no criticisms there. Service was OK , but nothing special.
But what REALLY HURT considering that we paid over HK$1,100 per head was how STINGY / SMALL the food was ....
...... AND THE COST OF THE BOTTLED WATER : HK$784 = USD100 just for 8 bottles which I am sure was just tap water, even though it was served from a bottle marked " Evian" that looked like no Evian bottle I ever saw in my life ) . And to make it worse - we were never told that they charged for water ![/b
For hors d'ovres I had the Ahi Kumomoto , which was described as " ahi tuna sushi with oysters" . Sounds great ..... BUT NOT SO . What came was a pencil- thin / pencil-long strip of stuff, among which , finally, I found a few small thin scraps of tuna. But the oysters, if they were even there, were just tiny black blobs, even smaller than a simple cockle ( I had to put on my reading glasses to see them )
But what really "hurt" me was the main course.....
I had ordered the rack of lamb " with fried potatoes and onion rings" . Also sounds great.....BUT NOT SO.
To be fair, the rack of lamb was OK, although very small ( about fist - sized ) and tasted good. But one person ordered 'rare' and got 'well-done' resulting in a 20 minute wait while his order was re-cooked . The gravy was served for some people, but not for others ........ not very good waiter service .
But WHAT REALLY HURT was the onion rings and fried potatoes which I was really looking forward to after the stingy hors d'oervres.
The onion rings were technically onion ringS because there were TWO of them ( otherwise I could have sued Felix under the Trades Description Act ) . But they were rock hard, and inedible . No real veg there !
But the "fried potatoes" were so far from reality that Felix should be ashamed. Imagine a potatoe no bigger than a large grape, sliced into 5- 6 x 1 mm thin pieces, and then fried to the consistency of a potatoe crisp .... Truly, each " fried potatoe" was about as small and thin ( and hard , and dark brown ) as a Hong Kong 50 cent coin . No joking !
The whole " rip-off" completely spoiled the evening and the celebration . What a shame
So that's one restaurant where I will certainly NEVER go again , never , NEVER , NEVER
(I did email and call the Manager the next day to complain and he offered me a free HK$1,000 coupon for another dinner , but I told him to FORGET IT ! )
Why oh WHY do some so-called " top class" restaurants in Hong Kong play such silly tricks that even TST camera shops play ? Why not just be up-front on meal charges and then serve a really good and fulfilling dinner ?
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