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同好友食飯當然要揀個岩傾計既地方啦, 呢度雖然係酒吧,但其實分開左2邊, 一邊係專係飲野吹水既企位,另一邊係可以坐定慢慢食既位置。由於坐位唔係太多,所以要黎既朋友要預早訂位哦!Wagyu Foie Gras Silders和牛鵝肝迷你漢堡, 迷你既一口漢堡,好岩細心品嚐, 和牛既香味加上鵝肝既香口配合得天依無縫! Classic Poutine 即炸薯條配合店鋪自家制的芝士, 芝士唔會話好濃味搶左薯條既味道,配合得幾好。Charred Eggplant上菜後就有D失望,由於我睇完openrice其他食家既食評先點呢個茄子,無諗過呢個茄子做出黎係會油淋淋咁濕, 白芝麻醬雖然係幾香, 不過配落咁濕既茄子食落去口感亦唔係太好。Lobster Linguine龍蝦扁意粉實在是值得推介, 首先賣相精美,龍蝦的擺位以致成個意粉生色不少,而未食都已經聞到龍蝦既香味,而食落去意粉既軟硬到恰到好處,龍蝦亦唔會煮得太硬。Cryo-Fried Vanilla Ice Cream呢個火焰雪糕,淨係賣相已經令人垂涎三尺,店員首先淋上酒然後點火,將外層既皮燒得香脆,然後再淋上紅莓醬, 入口時有淡淡的酒香,加上內凍

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同好友食飯當然要揀個岩傾計既地方啦, 呢度雖然係酒吧,但其實分開左2邊, 一邊係專係飲野吹水既企位,另一邊係可以坐定慢慢食既位置。由於坐位唔係太多,所以要黎既朋友要預早訂位哦!

Wagyu Foie Gras Silders
和牛鵝肝迷你漢堡, 迷你既一口漢堡,好岩細心品嚐, 和牛既香味加上鵝肝既香口配合得天依無縫!
Classic Poutine
即炸薯條配合店鋪自家制的芝士, 芝士唔會話好濃味搶左薯條既味道,配合得幾好。
Charred Eggplant
上菜後就有D失望,由於我睇完openrice其他食家既食評先點呢個茄子,無諗過呢個茄子做出黎係會油淋淋咁濕, 白芝麻醬雖然係幾香, 不過配落咁濕既茄子食落去口感亦唔係太好。
Lobster Linguine
龍蝦扁意粉實在是值得推介, 首先賣相精美,龍蝦的擺位以致成個意粉生色不少,而未食都已經聞到龍蝦既香味,而食落去意粉既軟硬到恰到好處,龍蝦亦唔會煮得太硬。
Cryo-Fried Vanilla Ice Cream
呢個火焰雪糕,淨係賣相已經令人垂涎三尺,店員首先淋上酒然後點火,將外層既皮燒得香脆,然後再淋上紅莓醬, 入口時有淡淡的酒香,加上內凍外熱,果然係一個視覺及味覺都可以享受到既甜品!

Wagyu Foie Gras Sliders

Classic Poutine

Charred Eggplant

Cryo-Fried Vanilla Ice Cream

Lobster Linguine

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Grievances at work and loud laughs aren't bipolar extremes - putting down the first while bringing up the latter is the rule of the game in Lan Kwai Fong. Not wanting to move our butts between happy hour and dinner time, right at the quiet swoop of Wo On Lane, we killed our Monday blue with happy hour drinks and Spanish dishes.Not extravagant, but just being classy. Dining venues look generally great around this area, but at the same time quite costly too. Comparing with Azure which I wrote befo

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Grievances at work and loud laughs aren't bipolar extremes - putting down the first while bringing up the latter is the rule of the game in Lan Kwai Fong. Not wanting to move our butts between happy hour and dinner time, right at the quiet swoop of Wo On Lane, we killed our Monday blue with happy hour drinks and Spanish dishes.

Not extravagant, but just being classy. Dining venues look generally great around this area, but at the same time quite costly too. Comparing with Azure which I wrote before, Common Room's menu is a lot more friendly, which makes it a casual option for friends gathering.

Probably tailor-made for the customers in proximity, they serve antipasti buffet plus an option for main course at lunch ($150 up) and late night menu for pathetic breadwinners who work till late at night. Those I dated are of course survivors who can sneak out from office by 7pm!

Classy bars don't need chandeliers, but dimly lit and industrial-chic interiors plus large wooden tables. The 31-foot long mixology bar table strikes through the most eye-catching area in the restaurant. Largest portion of seats go to those with decent tables and comfy seats, being multi-purposed enough for drinks and nibbles - that's what a gastrobar truly means.

Liquor bottles were decently shown on the shelf, no wonder making up the "cast iron liquor library" that the restaurant has been proclaimed for. Lighting was gentle and elegant, shaping the cozy and communal ambience straight to the point.

Intended for mainly a dinner right after drinks, a wooden table well served our purpose. There weren't many customers on an early Monday night, making it even more spacious in addition to its setting.

Spiked Smoothies x 2

Spiked Smoothies

Still early for dinner cravings, two of us wished to grab happy hour drinks first. Fascinated by the leaflet promoting "healthy" smoothie-like cocktails, we ordered two which truly look like smoothies made by veggies! Heard that VANIMAL offered creative cocktails with elements of veggies, at a similar pricing as well.

Cool - cumber $105

The soft green tone of the drink in fact looks like that of 五青汁 - just that there is no sign or taste of bitter gourd, green pepper and green apple. Cucumber, as how it is named, overwhelmed the taste with freshness and scent of green. Although it contains vodka, its taste wasn't significant, probably becoming mild after being neutralized by plain yogurt which creates the smoothie-like texture.

Not a fan of over-sweetened cocktails, this seemingly healthy (or is it really healthy?) cocktail gave a soothing feeling to awake your taste buds after a day of tiring work. However, it may not be that appealing to vodka lovers who look for real taste of it without looking at the ingredients in its menu.

Heart Beet Smoothie $115

Heart Beet Smoothie

One of my friends got a even not-so-cocktail-like cocktail, with vodka like mine but with beetroot as the red colour splash. Berries on top looked attractive like ice cream toppings. With maple syrup, this was sweeter than mine and vodka, not hidden by beetroot juice, tasted stronger than mine as well.

Slider Combo $98

Not being excessively big eaters, we ordered three dishes for nibbles - the first being a burger combo. Quite a considerate concept to cater both omnivores and herbivores, one of the burgers was with wagyu and foie gras and another with portobello. I believe that not only vegetarians love portobello for its meaty texture and robust flavour.

I still picked the omnivore option - the one with foie gras and wagyu. These two are strong in flavour to leave a luxurious buttery taste, let alone combining the two in one go. Beef was grilled just right, leaving signs of slight red inside.

Classic Cheese Curds Poutine $118

Classic Cheese Curds Poutine

With drinks, it's my all time favourite to have fries, though not being a diehard fan for deep-fried kind of fries. Instead of ordering the "sweet potato fries" on the menu, we were informed of the promotion of build-your-own-poutine and decided to give it a try - just a little bit more pricy ($118 compared to $78) but the premium goes to homemade cheese curds and beef gravy!

Poutine, being a Canadian (to be exact, Quebec) dish, should be appealing enough to those who have cravings in french fries but fear for getting a sore throat. Having thick beefy gravy through thick-cut french fries, the crispy layer is thus softened yet having the alluring greasy smell.

We didn't bother adding extra toppings, but in fact add-on options are available ranging from +$20 to $30, for example with bacon and eggs, grilled beef and red shrimps. A bowl of classic poutine was pretty fine to satiate pre-dinner cravings.

As told by the staff, cheese curds were made in-house by themselves and not imported nor purchased elsewhere. Looking densely yellow in cubes, cheese curds scattered in the bowl and hiding in camouflage of thick-cut fries!

Beef gravy did its job in smothering cheese curds and fries, giving a light beefy taste. Fries remain crispy enough on the outside yet soft and moist inside to withstand the gravy bath. Gravy was thick enough but able to reach to the bottom so that no mixing was necessary to get the gravy smothering the ingredients.

Chicken Lollipops $98

Chicken Lollipops

Personally not a big fan for fried food (cravings satiasted for me after the poutine), I was not especially moved by these chicken lollipops. Just grapping one would be fine though. Perhaps my response would be completely different if I were in a Korean restaurant, serving me a whole dish of fried chicken plus beer with K-pop MV playing on the TV!

Two sauces to moist the crispy and fried layer - thousand island dressing for the sour dip and maple syrup for the sweet dip. My vote went to maple syrup as the savory marinated flavour surprisingly matched with a sweet sauce.

Cravings for fried food were basically satisfied by the above appetizers and we then needed starch in our stomach for the night! Two main courses weren't in paltry portion and filled in the remaining 40% of our appetite.

Lobster Linguine $178

Lobster Linguine

Half a Canadian Lobster stood upright in the middle of the dish, having a large portion of it as the head though. The sauce was dominated by tomato and garlic, with a little highlight of spicy taste. Happy to see that the sauce wasn't too thick to smother, linguine didn't get mushy yet having spice and herbs clinged on the surface - al dente!

Lazybones shouldn't find this an easy go - one has to be really patient in getting the meat out of the shell. Texture of meat was firm and didn't taste dull, attributing to the freshness and optimal doneness.

Squid Ink Seafood Paella $168

Squid Ink Seafood Paella

The dish looked quite different from what I expected - perhaps a modern twist from the classic version in my mind, served with a large pan which is usually a flat, open round steel pan with handles. The prawn stood upright in the middle just like the lobster linguine, with a mix of seafood like squid rings, prawns and scallop pieces with inked rice.

Texture of rice was the best part of the dish. Using Arborio instead of any long grain rice, Arborio was a good pick in absorbing the broth but not getting too mushy.

Wrapping up the happy-hour-cum-dinner, while feeling puzzled for where to have desserts around, lazybones simply ordered two desserts here. $88 for one is somehow reasonable in Central, especially with not many dessert options around. (We thought of Holly Brown's ice cream but rolled our eyes..)

Cryo-Fried Vanilla Ice Cream $88

While nitrogen ice cream has been there for quite a while, cyro-fried is perhaps a newbie still, though in the same parade of using nitrogen in interesting culinary use. Taking Nitrogen's advantage of low boiling point, deep-frying can easily create a perfect brown crust and thaw the frozen layer, while preventing the interior from overcooked. This is what the theory lies in for the non-melting ice cream inside!

Pouring brandy all over it to get it flamed, which made a truly spectacular watch, perhaps a good option if it was for someone's birthday. Fresh berries at the bottom surprisingly didn't get burnt by the flame!

Cryo-Fried Vanilla Ice Cream

We regretted ordering the other dish of dessert, as this ice cream was truly huge, much bigger than my fist. The crust was a little bitter in taste, brought by the existence of brandy, however got soothened with strawberry syrup which was poured after flaming.

Vanilla ice cream didn't give us a big surprise in flavour, but in texture as it remains so cold and frozen after the cyro-frying method and flaming of the crust.

Sticky Date Pudding $88

Sticky Date Pudding

Looking like Brownie or some kind of Christmas cakes, the date pudding was topped with another scoop of Vanilla ice cream which made it repetitive given our previous dessert dish. $88 is truly for a good value again - desserts here seem to have quite a high C/P value when compared to rest of the dishes. Nonetheless, one wouldn't have expected that much given that "tapas" style means for its petite size.

The taste of date was so alluring that even we were that full, we managed to finish 3/4 of it. It wasn't that dense and sweet as imagined, at least not like stone-hard brownies. It remained warm when served, having the stark contrast in temperature between pudding and ice cream.

What truly worth encoring were probably its desserts and poutine! Central has always been a vivid cluster of different kinds of restaurants, but it isn't easy to find one which is all-round enough to serve creative yet affordable drinks, main courses and desserts. Common Room may not be that COMMON, for its contemporary humbleness to embrace all these elements in a 4000-sq.ft attic.

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Full menu is available at its official website (http://www.common-room.hk), thus not showing all of them here. Just some leaflets for a quick scan though -

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某天收到「Common Room」的邀請，鑒於去年曾到過該餐廳用膳，感受卻屬一般，於是向公關小姐坦然透露個人的忐忑心情，以免帶來任何誤會。幸而公關小姐也是豁達之人，亦希望藉著是次試食機會，為我帶來新的體驗。我個人也極之同意，正所謂凡事無絕對，更可況「波是圓的」—「伍晃榮」的妙句，便撮合了重踏「Common Room」的緣份！上次到過「Common Room」晚膳，其時已體驗過 Happy Hour 的熱哄哄情景。無論您是「中環人」與否，與好友談天說地，開懷大笑、摸著酒杯底，中環的歡樂時光絕對是一股萬誘引力！「Common Room」備有多款雞尾酒，今次挑選了 Pimm's Club，原因是看重它清爽的成份，例如青檸汁、薄荷、青瓜等，配上 Gin 和 Pimm's No. 1，形成了啡、金、黃的彩紅層次。試了幾口，發現味道倒有著 Mojito 的風格，但香草味則較為低調。酸酸甜甜中透出薄荷的涼快感，很喜歡 Pimm's Club 的夏日氣色，於餐前飲用，還能將我的胃納一拼打開。Happy Hour 少不了佐酒菜式。Charred Sweet Corn Salad 是由切得細小的洋蔥粒、蕃

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某天收到「Common Room」的邀請，鑒於去年曾到過該餐廳用膳，感受卻屬一般，於是向公關小姐坦然透露個人的忐忑心情，以免帶來任何誤會。幸而公關小姐也是豁達之人，亦希望藉著是次試食機會，為我帶來新的體驗。我個人也極之同意，正所謂凡事無絕對，更可況「波是圓的」—「伍晃榮」的妙句，便撮合了重踏「Common Room」的緣份！

上次到過「Common Room」晚膳，其時已體驗過 Happy Hour 的熱哄哄情景。無論您是「中環人」與否，與好友談天說地，開懷大笑、摸著酒杯底，中環的歡樂時光絕對是一股萬誘引力！

「Common Room」備有多款雞尾酒，今次挑選了 Pimm's Club，原因是看重它清爽的成份，例如青檸汁、薄荷、青瓜等，配上 Gin 和 Pimm's No. 1，形成了啡、金、黃的彩紅層次。試了幾口，發現味道倒有著 Mojito 的風格，但香草味則較為低調。酸酸甜甜中透出薄荷的涼快感，很喜歡 Pimm's Club 的夏日氣色，於餐前飲用，還能將我的胃納一拼打開。

Charred Sweet Corn Salad

Happy Hour 少不了佐酒菜式。

Charred Sweet Corn Salad 是由切得細小的洋蔥粒、蕃茄粒、粟米粒和羅勒混合，口感爽脆，味道清新，直接地用手將碟邊的墨西哥粟米片拉起，然後瀟灑地放進嘴巴品嚐，一邊品酒、一邊嚐小食，絕無難度！

Pulled Pork Poutine

嚐過清怡的沙律後，該是較重口味的 Pulled Pork Poutine 出場了！

看到面層的手撕豬肉，沾上濃香的車打芝士與 BBQ 醬汁，底層再鋪上甘香的薯條，一副惹味的賣相！入口醬汁豐厚，嘴巴滿是芝香，而 BBQ 醬汁的味道則較輕，只帶出絲絲甜味，味蕾瞬間從清怡的層次跳到濃味的境界。而底部的薯條吸收了醬汁後，既保留了薯香，又能感受到粉綿的薯質，雖會產生飽肚感，但先讓胃部作品酒前的熱身，實在相當不錯！

賣相如同薄餅的 Flat Bread，選用了焦糖洋蔥、大量菇菌、羊奶芝士及黑松露，香氣撲鼻，味道自然！

Chicken Lollipops

採用了雞膇，賣相如可愛的波板糖，炸得甘香的外層，亦使我聯想起中菜的炸蟹鉗！

Chicken Lollipops

其實 Chicken Lollipops 跟炸蟹鉗原理相若，只是食材不同而已。將「波皮糖」蘸上蛋黃醬或是楓蜜糖漿，帶出不同的味兒！

Classic Mac + Cheese

愛好芝士的朋友，可以想像一個小碗子內裝滿不同的芝士，會是如斯興奮嗎？

Classic Mac + Cheese 有意大利的 Buffalo Mozzeralla 和 Pamesan 芝士、瑞士的 Gruyere 芝士、還有荷蘭的 Gruda 芝士，以通粉混合，這個芝士大匯集，大可一次過滿足芝士癮！

Portobello Mushroom Sliders

不少酒吧也推出迷你漢堡，「Common Room」更將 Portobello 融入迷你漢堡之中。大大的Portobello 非常搶眼，入口菇汁充沛，夾雜焦糖洋蔥、Gruyere 芝士和牛油果，全素的成份，讓人有著非常清新的感覺，有別於一般的迷你漢堡。

Wagyu Foie Gras Sliders

不過凡人有時總敵不過濃香的誘惑。和牛與鵝肝的迷你漢堡，放入火箭菜、意大利陳醋，用來配襯威士忌和其他烈酒，相信更能提昇酒品的香氣。

Lobster Risotto

Lobster Linguine

週末或假期前總令人流連忘返，若佐酒小食未能滿足一整晚能量消耗的話，可考慮 Lobster Risotto 或 Lobster Linguine。

龍蝦肉新鮮彈牙，Risotto 吸收了蒜香和白酒，非常入味。不過我則較喜歡 Linguine 的配搭，Linguine 選用了蕃茄醬汁烹調，微微滲出辣意，在狂飲夜上，味覺會變得稍為遲鈍，始終惹味的食品較能刺激味蕾。

「Common Room」後端的座位陳設，採用了新的設計，感覺比以前舒適了。相對長酒吧附近的座位，私隱度較高，看您喜歡哪種氣氛！

從前以「餐廳」的角度去評論「Common Room」，當晚再一次踏進這「Common Room」，感覺卻有所不同，再經過試食的環節後，我的焦點瞬間由「餐廳」切換到如酒吧和居酒屋的層次上，應該是一間擁有多款佐酒小食和各式各樣酒品的「共享酒吧間」才對。

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Very impressed with Common Room. The food we tried were delicious and I enjoyed the 'Kiss from a Rose'. The only down side would be that the tables are too close together and we could hear what the table behind us was talking about.First we ordered the grilled shrimp poutine. The sauce was flavourful, with both truffle and cheese flavour. The shrimp was tasty but lacked in size. We then ordered the Wagyu Foie Gras Sliders. Amazing! I think I enjoyed this most because the wagyu patty was moist an

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Very impressed with Common Room. The food we tried were delicious and I enjoyed the 'Kiss from a Rose'. The only down side would be that the tables are too close together and we could hear what the table behind us was talking about.

First we ordered the grilled shrimp poutine. The sauce was flavourful, with both truffle and cheese flavour. The shrimp was tasty but lacked in size.

Grilled Shrimp Poutine

We then ordered the Wagyu Foie Gras Sliders. Amazing! I think I enjoyed this most because the wagyu patty was moist and tender, whilst the foie gras melted in my mouth. I could gobble up seconds (which I did!)

A closer look at the layers of the burger..

Wagyu foie gras sliders

Then we had the lobster linguine. The lobster flavour was strong and the portion was appropriate. As for the lobster itself, there wasn't much meat to share. Not the best I've had so far.

Lobster linguine

Lastly I must talk about the "kiss from a rose". It consists of Vodka, Lychee Liquer, Fresh Lychee, and Lemon juice. But the best part was the rose foam floating ontop of the drink. Sweet and fragrant, this drink will definitely be popular amongst girls.

Kiss from a Rose

Overall I enjoyed this meal a lot. Definitely will go back for more sliders and drinks!

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