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2011-07-27
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I have wanted to try this restaurant for a long time, given its 98 positive ratings and openrice awards, but I must say it totally missed the mark for me. I hate to give another negative review but it just didn't work.The food: We ordered two set lunches, $128 and $168 respectively. Food was of an acceptable standard, but it was not French or Italian as proclaimed on the openrice page. It was average Hong Kong style western food, and I'm not knocking HK style western at all, but I would pref
The food: We ordered two set lunches, $128 and $168 respectively. Food was of an acceptable standard, but it was not French or Italian as proclaimed on the openrice page. It was average Hong Kong style western food, and I'm not knocking HK style western at all, but I would prefer, for example, Sammy's Kitchen on Queen's Road West, Sunning Restaurant in Lee Theater, or Steak Expert any day for a lower price range and better food. This was not expensive, just not good.
The salads were said to be from an organic farm in Sheung Shui, but I did not notice anything special about them, apart from the lack of dressing to cover up the bitter taste (okay, I'm not usually a fan of salad, so maybe I can't judge).
Next came the mushroom soup. This was okay, except it had that sweet taste of boiled milk to it. It tasted like my failed attempts as a kid at making my campbell's soup thicker by boiling it with 1 can of milk instead of 1 can of water. I think maybe the milk changes the soup's flavour when you boil it or put too much.
The mains we had were lamb chop and steak. The steak's meat quality was fine and the sauce quite nice, albeit typical HK western flavour. I was expecting individual lamb rack pieces, but instead I got one big lamb chop with a few pieces of bone in the middle. Again, this tasted fine. It was the sides which really threw us off. The cooked veg was all cold and covered in some basalmic vinegar sauce, and there was this one unidentifiable white ball which felt a bit powdery (like a half boiled potato, or lotus root?) and tasted like nothing. I found that quite gross. The sides were just typical potato wedges.
The service: The waiter was acting a little funny, insisting on speaking to us in English even though we replied him in Cantonese. He also elbowed my bf in the face while plonking down the ice lemon tea, and left me holding my empty plate without coming back to get it after I picked it up so he could put down my mains. He was very polite when we left, but his earlier behaviour makes me wonder if he's being sarcastic.
The environment: Wow...this was a big disappointment after walking past good looking restaurants such as on lot 10 and #40 Gough Street. It was quite simple, a bit faded, and cramped. I had to look for the bf on the 2nd floor, and when I got to the top, there was this mysterious looking door which looked like it led to an office of some sort. I knocked just to check, and only then did I find that it was the little dining room. Right after I sat down at our 4 person table, another couple came and sat next to us, so we were basically on the same table. The waiter didn't even bother pulling the table apart a little - the lady next to us had to do it herself. And then worst of all, there were these four ladies (and I do struggle to call them that) who arrived shortly after, and made a real spectacle of themselves. These were your stereotypical "pork chop gong luis" I tell you - making a rucus wherever they went, laughing so loud that nobody else could carry on a proper conversation, ooing and ahhing at everything, taking pictures of their gooooorgeous faces every 3 minutes (bumping the other guests chairs in the process), and flirting with the old waiter and asking him to take pictures the whole time(which means he couldn't help the other guests). I do wonder, what has happened to etiquette these days? And what exactly is so inspiring about this restaurant's interior decor that so many pictures are necessary? Ai -__-" It's not the restaurant's fault, but this kind of clientele does ruin a meal.
So all in all, it's not bad food (or good food), but not worth the price, the weird service or the chance of irritating diners chafing on your nerves in a cramped space. I give it an OK only because the gong luis' appearance was not the restaurant's fault.
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