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Holiday Pastime
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Although Simplylife has several places in town, this one in Festival Walk is still my ultimate because of the skylight. Their original spot is now occupied by the pricier Greyhound Café. The present location is much nosier next to the food court and ice rink, but the waiting queue is still going strong. Once I thought the queue would be shorter on the weekday late lunch hours, but I was wrong and was forced to buy takeaway to eat at the food court. Obviously, the experience was much inferior.It’
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Although Simplylife has several places in town, this one in Festival Walk is still my ultimate because of the skylight. Their original spot is now occupied by the pricier Greyhound Café. The present location is much nosier next to the food court and ice rink, but the waiting queue is still going strong. Once I thought the queue would be shorter on the weekday late lunch hours, but I was wrong and was forced to buy takeaway to eat at the food court. Obviously, the experience was much inferior.

It’s the fourth day of Chinese New Year and hubby was finally dragged here upon my repeated lunch “suggestions”. This time the long queue even took a U-turn given it’s after three o’clock in the afternoon. We waited for around 45 minutes till they have to let all the people having brunch in. It’s cloudy that day so it’s ok to have a seat away from the skylight near the cake counters. We rushed to order as the brunch period was closing. We chose one soup and one salad to go with the open steak sandwich with rocket leaves salad and artichoke, dried tomato and olive pizza, and some dessert and coffee later of course.
Brunch Salad
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 The soup contained quite a lot of barley texture and tasted normal. The salad was more remarkable and the simple orange slices burst with juices to bring extra freshness to the greens. The open steak sandwich was presented quickly. It’s quite inconvenient to eat no matter with hands or knife. The steak juice and egg yolk soaked the farm bread which became even more difficult to cut. Perhaps toasting the bread would be a better option. The pizza arrived a while later. The heavy cheese and generous toppings soaked the crust so that only the rim was crunchy. We enjoyed the rich taste though and the toppings all prevented the pizza from getting too dry.
Artichoke, dried tomato and olive pizza
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 Though full already, I must order the banana tart that I had longed for since the last visit, and a white coffee to go with it. Hubby wanted the cinnamon log which was sold out and he had a chocolate croissant instead. The white coffee was quite creamy and tasted ok. The banana tart was the highlight for me. Hubby thought the banana tart should taste just like banana eaten by itself because of the overwhelming fruit taste. However, that tart save the day as the chocolate tart base, caramel custard, pecan and nuts all worked their magic to create a comforting sensation.
Banana Tart
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 We were rushing again to take the bill as dinner time came when we finished. Another long queue for dinner was already in place. The entire place was photogenic. Would be nice to try their dinner, but it’s certainly a fuss to come here again. Pity.
(以上食評乃用戶個人意見 , 並不代表OpenRice之觀點。)
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用餐日期
2015-02-22
等候時間
45 分鐘 (堂食)
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$180 (午餐)
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Artichoke, dried tomato and olive pizza
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As good as usual
2014-01-24 5252 瀏覽
I started my dining experience at Simplylife ever since my undergraduate life, so it's like how many years ago...Anyway, its transition from a bakery-oriented cafe to a full spectrum restaurant is so successful, which there always is a line outside.Chanterelle w/ Potato & Black Truffle Pizza (6/10):Not bad, but I don't think a girl could eat it up, it's a good dish to share.Potatoes are thinly-sliced, with onions and cheese, just can't have it wrong with this combination!Tagliatelle w/ wild mush
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I started my dining experience at Simplylife ever since my undergraduate life, so it's like how many years ago...
Anyway, its transition from a bakery-oriented cafe to a full spectrum restaurant is so successful, which there always is a line outside.
Chanterelle w/ Potato & Black Truffle Pizza
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 Chanterelle w/ Potato & Black Truffle Pizza (6/10):
Not bad, but I don't think a girl could eat it up, it's a good dish to share.
Potatoes are thinly-sliced, with onions and cheese, just can't have it wrong with this combination!
Tagliatelle w/ wild mushrooms & truffle cream sauce
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 Tagliatelle w/ wild mushrooms & truffle cream sauce (6/10):
The creamy sauce and mushrooms added lots of flavour to the dish, if you are not a mushroom-lover, better not try this LOL; again, it's better to share instead of eating up alone, the white sauce could make one surrender soon.
Banana tart
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 Banana tart (7/10):
I have tried a couple of desserts from the store, and if you think "Banana pie" is too much, go for this and you won't regret. The brownie part is very nicely made!
If you still think these maybe too sweet, you could get the "Blueberry sesame cake", I didn't have the photo but it's nice either!

Others:
The best "soup of the day" goes to "Pumpkin soup", the others are kinda bland when matching with the breads. The orange iced tea is so-so, not much to expect anyway.

Overall
Food:
Well I may have biases, since I'm a frequent customer, still I would recommend the store to everyone
Service:
Busy restaurant, but they do attend your requests, just don't expect smiling faces
Environment:
it's noisy, but it's basically the same for most of the shops facing the ice rink in Festival Walk

題外話/補充資料： I overhead some complaints when lining up for brunch at weekend. The long queue is not news, so if you don't want to line up, just go to the store for lunch at weekdays, it's much cheaper (at least 15-20% less than brunch)
(以上食評乃用戶個人意見 , 並不代表OpenRice之觀點。)
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用餐日期
2014-01-19
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$120+ (其他)
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Tagliatelle w/ wild mushrooms & truffle cream sauce