Giando Italian Restaurant & Bar

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Item: Giando Italian Restaurant & Bar
Rating: 4
Author: OliverHoHo

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13016

Wan Chai

$401-800

Italian Seafood Pizza Salt & Sugar Reduction Restaurant

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Restaurant:	Giando Italian Restaurant & Bar

To promote a new salt and sugar reduction (RSS) dietary culture and living style to the people of Hong Kong, the Environment and Ecology Bureau, the Committee on Reduction of Salt and Sugar in Food and the Centre for Food Safety of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department have launched the "Less-Salt-and-Sugar Restaurants Scheme" ("Scheme"). Restaurants participated in the Scheme will offer less salt or sugar options to the consumer or even tailor-make less salt or sugar dishes in designated restaurants. Participating restaurants will be granted with the Scheme Labels for displaying in the premises for public identification. For details, please click here: https://www.eeb.gov.hk/food/en/committees/crss/restaurants.html

OliverHoHo

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Good friend recommends the Italian restaurant, Giando at Star Street Wan Chai. Me and my honey immediately went for a lunch trial. Due to still being CNY holiday period, they served the brunch menu (HKD 338), which consists of salad and appetizers buffet, one main course, and dessert.

The setting is quite high end. Very comfortable. The buffet selection is ok but not as large variety compared to a similar newly opened Italian restaurant, Spiga. With hams, salad, fruits, cheese, etc (no hot food)... but the quality is exceptional. One of the bell pepper stuffing is really good. Absolute delicious.

For main course, I picked the Spaghetti with Mixed Seafood and Cherry Tomato source. The portion is ok, with shrimp, squid, and scallop. However, to me the flavour is only average and the cherry tomato source isnt strong enough to blend the seafood together. Also, the texture of spaghetti is a bit on the hard side to my liking. The seafood ingredient is very fresh but just the overall taste is a bit average.

My wife picked the Pan Fried Cod Fish with Cherry Tomato. The fish is very smooth and very nicely prepared. However, again the flavour of the sauce is quite light and didnt quite stand out and blend with the fish.

For dessert, we picked the Tiramisu and Hazelnut Parfait with Chololate Shave. The Tiramisu cake is absolutely outstanding, one of the very best I have ever tried. The sweetness, creaminess, texture of layers, along with perfect chololate and coffee flavour make it such an outstanding dessert. The Hazelnet Parfait compared to the Tiramisu is a bit more sweet but I would definitely go for the Tiramisu. With additonal HKD 18, you can have the coffee or tea and it is a bargain as the cappicino is really smooth.

Overall, I would say Giando is a high quality Italian restaurant even though the main course is a bit on average side. The desserts are very nice and in particular the Tiramisu. I would definitely come back and again try out their other main dishes.