I-O-N (Closed)

Item: I-O-N
Rating: 4
Author: indyli

111 Reviews

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7712

Central

$201-400

International All Day Breakfast Cake Coffee Shop

indyli

Level4

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After a lengthy period of revitalization, Central Market is finally opened again with quite a number of fancy restaurants and cafes. I-O-N is one of them. I visited shortly after the opening of revitalized Central Market, and it’s understandable that the restaurant staff lacked a bit of coordination regarding usher, order taking, payment, etc. Nevertheless, their good service attitudes made up for the hassles during soft opening stage.Coffee here is more on the expansive side. For HKD$48 (plus a

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Coffee here is more on the expansive side. For HKD$48 (plus a 10% service charge), I got a cup of small flat white, even though it’s a legit and delicious one. The hand drip coffee can go up to HKD$188 a cup, brace yourself and your wallet.

Small Sharable Platter

Food is more reasonably priced. They let you pick up to 4 different types of nibbles for a small platter. I am so glad with this as I got to try more appealing snacks on the menu! I picked French fries with salted egg yolk, field salmon cakes, deep-fried popcorn shrimp with garlic chili sauce and Kung Pao beef tenderloin with Sichuan pepper. All of them tasted so good and they were freshly served.

The salted egg yolk fries were rightly flavored and not overly salty. The salmon cakes were filled with quite a lot of salmon, very filling indeed. The deep-fried popcorn shrimp wasn’t quite what I expected, but they tasted good in the garlic chili sauce. The hot Kung Pao beef tenderloin did give me a nice surprise! Highly recommend you to try out the fusion snacks!

I just couldn’t resist this cloudy Cheesecake. It tasted supreme. The rich cheese flavor was a bit milky also! The bits of chocolate on top were surprisingly delicious too! Awesome!