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2009-11-23
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Came to Spoon for my friend's birthday brunch. We reserved a table for about 10-12 of us and all ordered the set brunch. Environment: Very comfortable. It's been cold lately and my friend luckily chose the sunniest & warmest day for her birthday brunch. It was so nice feeling the warmth from the large windows while eating brunch. Place was spacious and felt comfortable. Service: I thought the service was really good. Everything was spot on. They have a dessert buffet in their kitchen and a bunch
Environment: Very comfortable. It's been cold lately and my friend luckily chose the sunniest & warmest day for her birthday brunch. It was so nice feeling the warmth from the large windows while eating brunch. Place was spacious and felt comfortable.
Service: I thought the service was really good. Everything was spot on. They have a dessert buffet in their kitchen and a bunch of spent a while in there taking photos. They never at any point asked us not to (since we were kind of in the way of their customers) and encouraged us to take as many photos as we wanted (for a photographer like myself...this made me so happy).
Food overall I thought was of very high quality. Here's what I got with my set brunch:
Appetizers was buffet style and I ate the following:
Smoked duck with potato salad - Duck was pretty good but not spectacular. The potato salad tasted pretty 'normal' but I thought when you got a bite of it with the smoked salmon it really made it tasty. Never knew smoked salmon went so well with potato salad.
Porcini Veloute (creamy dried mushroom soup) Shot - Wow...this was so flavorful. I really liked this. They really did a great job making sure the texture was silky smooth and tasty.
Fresh crab salad - Crab tasted really fresh. Another great dish.
Chicken Consommé Shot - Tasty and 'clean' flavors wise. Still prefer the porcini veloute.
Main Course: I ordered the sirloin but I also tasted my 2 friends' veal and scallop dish.
Sirloin cut of the day - Overall a tasty dish but not great per say. The areas of this sirloin attached to some fat made a big difference in terms of taste (way better).
Roast Veal - My friend ordered this and I ate half. The cut of veal is REALLY small (probably 1/4 in size to my sirloin dish). The saving grace...it tasted really nice (better than my sirloin dish). Really flavorful.
Creamy Scallop - I ate one scallop of my friends. I felt it was maybe a little overcooked since the texture was a little bit 'rubbery'. Not bad flavor wise.
Dessert was also buffet style. What I really liked about it was the spread was inside the actual kitchen inside Spoon. There was SO MANY choices. I tried the following:
Steamed Cheese Cake - This was really good. A little too rich for my tastes but still a very good cheese cake.
Blueberry Tart - Tasty. The blueberry were kind of glazed over with sugar I think since they stuck together and seemed a little 'solid'. Still pretty tasty.
On top of all this food we also got a glass of white wine. After this meal I felt I ate so much that I had food coma....haha. Overall I thought it was a really nice brunch. Whether it was worth $550 might be debatable but I think if I am looking for a nice high-end brunch in Hong Kong...Spoon is definitely a great choice.
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