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2009-08-16
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This restaurant doesn't look very Hong Kong to me: a black plastic banner as the shop sign, dark red walls but light grey carpet that will look more appropriate in the office, terrace-type wooden furniture, a hard bench on the wall side with a sharp edge that scrapes your thighs, one or two pictures from italian films and ornaments that look out of place - the deco was an odd mish-mash and I thought I was on the set of Top Chef restaurant challenge lol. They use a very small home-style coffee ma
Back to the food: we only had a choice of pasta, and it was either a meaty bolgonese or the vegetarian variety. The pizza had already sold out - the place is tiny, but at 1 pm they have already sold out one of the main items on the set lunch menu lol - a sign of poor kitchen management maybe? First bad sign.
As I would rather have pasta anyway, I wasn't disappointed and ordered the carnivorous penne. My 2 lunch companions also ordered pasta, but strangely enough, one of them arrived first even before the appetizer salads. Second bad sign.
As the waitress brought over the one solitary plate of pasta, she told us that the salads would arrive later, but it seems she wasn't quite aware (or cared) that it was the wrong way to do things, but she was not unfriendly. Third bad sign.
It took at least another 10 minutes before the other 2 pastas arrived - fourth bad sign. Why brought out the first one so early? If it had been a wrong order then it could have waited in the oven in the kitchen and served together with the other 2 pastas. Only serving one dish out of a party or 3 customers could only point to inept service and a cock-up in the kitchen.
For desserts, some tables had both tiramisu and ice cream, but we were not asked what we liked and were served chocolate ice cream all round. Drinks took another 10 minutes to arrive, and as befor they didn't come altogether, even though I saw the younger waitress flaffing around the bar table with cups and stuff. Finally it was 2 pm and we had to flag down the equally clueless older waitress to do things on the double.
In terms of the food (gosh I almost forgot to mention this lol) things were ok, the bolognese was made with tomato paste and did not have a lot of oil in it, and the pasta was cooked al dente. The portion was a bit meagre though. The leafy salad was quite ok as well, and the ice cream probably Dreyer's chocolate cake(?) The food does have promise, but they must realise that homey is one thing, but lackadaisical and inefficient service is quite another.
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