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2014-03-22
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Tomorrow is not really my sort of place. The (ghastly) website invites you to "taste your imagination at Tomorrow," but nothing about the place screams "imagination" or even "fun." It's calculated and concocted. Even its name is stupid, when you realize it just means "Tomorrow." It's a little bit icky.So why did I go? One word: 'Za. There's a now-defuct blog called "Best Pizza in Hong Kong" written by a woman who clearly loves her pizza. She rated the places she visited on a 1-10 scale, 10 being
So why did I go? One word: 'Za. There's a now-defuct blog called "Best Pizza in Hong Kong" written by a woman who clearly loves her pizza. She rated the places she visited on a 1-10 scale, 10 being the best. Only one restaurant in all of HK got a 10 from her. Can you guess? Domani. That's a recommendation I don't take lightly.
So when I got this pizza craving I just couldn't shake, it was time to overcome the ick-factor and Tomorrow-it-up.
We ate at the bar, because you can't get pizza in the main dining room. I guess they can't suffer pizza-eaters rubbing elbows with the real people. I apologize for the quality of the pictures. Though I lack almost all class, I still can't bring myself to use the flash in places where the servers are wearing fancier clothes than any that I own.We started with just a mixed greens salad. It was pretty straightforward. The dressing was light, which is good, and maybe a little sweet, which is less-than-optimal.
We ordered the Diavola pizza ($160): tomato sauce, buffalo mozzerella, chili, spicy salami. One pizza is definitely enough for two people. Here's what the "Best Pizza in Hong Kong" blog said about the crust: "[T]he true beauty of this pizza is the crust. Perfectly crispy, deliciously thin but not too thin so as to get soggy...in a word...exquisite." It's four years since that sentence was written and I can say with surety that this place has gone downhill. Our crust was nowhere crispy. It was completely undercooked, soggy right up until the outer edges. It couldn't hold the toppings on and I had to eat it with a knife and fork (!), even though I'm from America, where people will pick fights with you for doing that.
Again, the photos not great, but hopefully you can see that I've had to reconstruct this slice by piling back on all the toppings that slid off the soggy crust when I served myself.As for the toppings, they truly were great. The buffalo mozzerella was tangy and rich, in excellent portions. The tomato sauce was great. My wife uttered the sentence, "I think this is the best salami I've ever had." And there was nothing really wrong with the cooked portion of the crust, other than the fact that it was a minor percentage of the crust as a whole.
I believe that Tomorrow could make good pizza, if they tried. They've got all the ingredients, and at one point they even knew how to cook it. If they could just recover that knowledge, hey, it might really be the "Best Pizza in Hong Kong." But right now I would NOT recommend it to a friend if asked to recommend HK pizza. (I'd probably say 'Motorino,' btw). The end product here was still very good in parts, but crust is half the pizza, both literally and figuratively, and this just doesn't cut it.
Crust: 1
Sauce: 8
Toppings: 10
OK, C+.
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