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Pathétique, n'est ce pas?
2016-03-16 3075 views
With a nom de guerre like "Le Dôme de Cristal", one might expect chortling Bankers popping $2000 HKD bottles of bubbly among a throng of beautiful ladies, resplendent cars (with a Driver idling behind the wheel), and other signs of decadence and opulence. To wit, the restaurant is backed by the Louis Roederer group, the makers of Cristal champagne.But during our visits for after work drinks, we found none of the above. Chiefly because the restaurant was empty. Barren. Not a peep until we walked
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With a nom de guerre like "Le Dôme de Cristal", one might expect chortling Bankers popping $2000 HKD bottles of bubbly among a throng of beautiful ladies, resplendent cars (with a Driver idling behind the wheel), and other signs of decadence and opulence. To wit, the restaurant is backed by the Louis Roederer group, the makers of Cristal champagne.

But during our visits for after work drinks, we found none of the above. Chiefly because the restaurant was empty. Barren. Not a peep until we walked in at 7:00pm nor until we left at 9:00pm. Sure, the $2000 HKD bottles are on the menu, but we were there for the modestly priced happy hour - $88 for a generous pour of house wine or two for one beers, also $88.

It's semi-baffling that a venue with such reasonable HH specials was desolate as it was. It's located in the heart of the business district and is upscale enough to keep any boss or client happy. And the bar menu isn't bad - an adequate cheese platter was only $148 and the well executed fries were as 'cheap as chips' at $38. Nor was the service a slouch - attentive and gracious (a given that there was a 1:1 ratio of waitstaff to customers).
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 Perhaps such a haughty alias is Le Dôme de Cristal's ultimate downfall. In order to keep the image, the restaurant feels immalleable and overly refined without good reason. The space and the service is devoid of warmth or passion, opting for formality and sobriety. Drinking here is an awkward affair. There is a central irony in all of this - a brand such as the Louis Roederer group, which is devoted to exclusivity, has alienated every diner in Hong Kong - pathétique, n'est ce pas?
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Date of Visit
2016-03-14
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