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2009-03-06
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This restaurant serves Breakfast as well as Lunches and Dinners, whilst in the afternoon period coffee, tea and cakes. Although the breakfasts seems to be good, this review is solely on the Dinner experience.1) Onion Soup - No signs of any Gruyere cheese and Crouton. Toasts for all soups come separately on a plate. The onion soup lacked onion and in fact any taste, no depth, some previously 'completely blackened/burnt onion' remained in the soup from the caramelisation of the onion's process. U
1) Onion Soup - No signs of any Gruyere cheese and Crouton. Toasts for all soups come separately on a plate. The onion soup lacked onion and in fact any taste, no depth, some previously 'completely blackened/burnt onion' remained in the soup from the caramelisation of the onion's process. Unbelievable. How can Onion soup not come with either Pastry tops or Croutons with Gruyere, but instead come with blackened onions, yet still have no taste?
2) Tuna 'Nicose' Salad - Well technically its called Nicoise Salad but the menu says otherwise. Which I'm really 'glad' they had spelt it wrong because this salad was nowhere close to a real nicoise..
Canned Tuna was shredded into a million pieces instead of chunks.. Therefore it was like eating minced tinned tuna. Boiled eggs were ok if a bit over-boiled.
Salad leafs and beans were fresh, but dressing was wrong. It was too acidic type of Vinaigrette/Lemon dressing, without signs of any balance or EVOO olive oil - this vinaigrette type of dressing was ultimately too sour to suit this dish.
No signs of any boil potatoes either, a preresquisite in a Nicoise salad together with beans. Wouldn't mind a little bit of seeded mustard to go with it either.
$65. You're kidding me.
3) Linguini Pasta with Mushrooms and Truffle Sauce. Around $80 from memory?
This usually can't be stuffed up but here they did so badly.
The mushrooms were mostly 'chinese' mushrooms believe it or not, without much seasoning or taste.
Linguini was ok but in between aldente and too soft.
The so called Truffle sauce meanwhile had absolutely no taste - Obviously, just like in the most of HK's so called Western restaurants, the so called 'with Truffle' or 'Truffle sauce' aren't even the real deal... They're just a type of Mushroom Salsa with a bit of Truffle essence thrown in, usually the aromatic taste eaters detect is from the minced Champignon mushrooms inside, not real Black Truffles. Real truffle does not taste like that at all. Anyway, I fail to understand why here, they did not even had any 'fake' truffle taste, let alone real ones.
Completely tasteless.
4) Tea - That was the highlight of the night. Really good quality red tea given after the meal.
I will probably come here for breakfasts again - but as for dinner, definitely not again. The quality is way worst than places like Al Dente or Antipasto, and those aren't even that good anyway.
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