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2022-03-27
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Ask for Alonzo opened in my neighbourhood for a long long while now but never really had a chance to give it a try. As I wasn't in the mood to again eat lunch at home, I decided to venture out and give it a go. It's veru popular on weekends but as it was a weekday, it was a very quiet.The place is spacious with a beautiful area of seats that face outside so you can view the people getting on and off the trams.Menu is in English and Chinese. During lunch time they offer a lunch menu. But the pri
The place is spacious with a beautiful area of seats that face outside so you can view the people getting on and off the trams.
Menu is in English and Chinese. During lunch time they offer a lunch menu. But the prices on the lunch menu are actually the same prices as on the a la carte menu. But they offer a tiny discount for soup, salad or a bruschetta along with certain drinks. Along with the lunch menu, they also offer what they consider their seasonal dishes on a blackboard above the bar. They weren't too interesting that day and I had a craving for carbonara so that was what I ordered.
They start you off with some bread. A slice of raison walnut and a slice of sundried tomato. The spread was a truffle mayo which I really didn't like. I think bread should be used to dip sauces or spread with a simple butter. The truffle mayo just over powered the wonderful taste of the bread offered. So, definitely skip the spread they offer you because it doesn't give the bread they provided justice. The bread was delicious. Soft and sweet. I loved especially the sundried tomato one.
The carbonara ($148) had a few things I like and then a lot I didn't. I loved the addition of the crispy guanciale. It was salty and crispy. The pasta was cooked well. But the sauce had way too much pepper. It was just like eating a mouthful of pepper. All that creamy sauce was wasted with the huge amount of pepper. Probably one of the least like carbonara I've had in Hong Kong.
I finished with a tiramisu ($68). It honestly didn't look very big but wow ... did it do me in. Super rich and creamy, there was a wonderful flavour of espresso and rum. Eating it was like licking a huge tub of fatty cream. It was that rich and lush. I literally left here woozy and sleepy. A true food coma.
Service was excellent. The carbonara wasn't very good at all. But the dessert was divine even though it did me in. I'd probably be back to try something else but not the carbonara.
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