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2015-04-23
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After the not so happy brunch at Fish and Meat last week, I was shocked that a family member booked another one of their group restaurant at Repulse Bay for this Sunday's brunch. But the weather threatened to turn foul and I was spared. Booked Flint at the last minute and fortunately they had an early lunch table freed up. At least I was confident of a reasonable meal in a reasonable setting.The brunch consisted of the usual buffet spread, except that the main course arrangement has been changed
The brunch consisted of the usual buffet spread, except that the main course arrangement has been changed. You are presented with a long list of main courses, and told that they come in small portions. So, a ribeye steak would be two slices, and the braised pork belly would be two mid sized cubes, and so on. But there were lots of choices and you can order as many rounds of any of them as you like. In fact you can just order the whole list.
The buffet spread was excellent by comparison with other leading buffet venues. Lobsters, cheeses, fresh mozzarella cheese and tomato, coppa ham, salami, Spanish ham, reasonable quality sushi, smoked salmon, ceasar salad, Alaskan crab legs, and so on. The only changes were they have substituted Sorreno ham for 5J Spanish Ballota Jamon. Oh, well, those things cost a bundle and times are bad. Still, the Sorreno, hand sliced, was very good. They also stopped offering whole fresh Mozzarella cheese. Those things are costly and I am sure some people would take a bit and say yuke. They are delicious. Well, we still have them, arranged with tomato as salad Caprese. But it is the same fresh Mozzarella cheese. Excellent if you like this dish. I almost never bother with buffet lobsters. Most of them look firey red and yummy, but most are tasteless. So I cannot tell if they were any good.
For main dishes we ordered lamb chops, ribeye steak, braised pork belly, salmon belly in ponzu sauce, goyza, king prawn tempura, foie gras, black cod Teriyaki, lobster thermador ... Well, I lost count. Dessert was pretty good too. But I was really getting to the limit by then and turned out I did not need dinner either. Nice coffee afterwards and although we stayed past 3 pm, after every other guest left, we were left in peace to take our time. Well, we started late anyway. This was polite and professional service.
$580 and $180 for free flowing Verve Cliquot champagne. Not a bad deal at all, and in a nice room overlooking Pacific Place with Hong Kong Park as a backdrop, with a bit of harbor view. Can't complain.
Actually we had a Marriott card that gave us 25% off. Actually, it is always one guest for free so I suppose the less number of people goes there the more the discount. Always strikes me as strange. But we will be back for more brunch and may be consider a dinner. The only thing to watch out for is bottled water goes for $90 a bottle.
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