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2013-03-09
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Soho is one of the chic districts that could manifest the exoticism of Hong Kong. There are a variety of restaurants respectively serving French, Italian, Mexican, Greek and even Nepal cuisine. How well is the food? My friend J and I started off a journey at SOHO, trying to find the answer by ourselves. This restaurant was our first stop. We strolled along the south of Hollywood Road with no fixed destination in mind. Noticing that there were some customers in this nicely decorated restaurant (a
We strolled along the south of Hollywood Road with no fixed destination in mind. Noticing that there were some customers in this nicely decorated restaurant (and that there are more than a hundred of smiley in Open Rice), we decided to give it a try. It was 12:15pm. There were a number of empty tables which however had been reserved. The waitress said she could give us a table if we could return it by 1:30pm, and took us to an old Chinese building right next to the restaurant.
After climbing up the few stairs in the old building, we settled down at this upper branch of the restaurant, which shared a consistent theme with the branch on the ground. It was surrounded with red bricks of walls, reminding me of a fortress or a castle.
Food - my order
I ordered a set lunch ($98), which included:
1. Mozzarella Cheese and Tomato Salad,
2. Soup of the day,
3. Sea Bass fillet with tomato salsa (there were two other courses that you could choose- chicken steak and lamb brisket),
4. Daily dessert,
5. Coffee
Bread and butter
Slices of baguette were warmly served with creamy butter. At that time, there were not many customers and was quite quiet with soft music. The bread was so crispy that the customer at the far end of the restaurant could probably hear the cracking sound made by me. This very piece of bread and butter raised my expectation of the food here, which was however disappointing.
Mozzarella Cheese and Tomato Salad, Corn soup with ham
Corn soup with ham was the soup of the day. It was served with the salad.It was not a cream soup. The cubes of ham were salty and a bit hard. The corns were crunchy. Nothing special. The soup did not go well with the baguette.
And there was the awkward moment... when the diameter of the cup was small while the spoon was not.
The mozzarella was actually quite nice. Soft and lightly sour. I like the vinegar dressing. However together with the tomato, the combination could only lead me to one adjective- sour.
Pan Fried Sea Bass Fillet with Tomato Salsa
I like the eye-catching red and green of this dish. The skin of the fillet was quite crispy. But the texture of the flesh was poor- hard, dry and rough. What's worse, it seemed to be stale. The mash potato was cold.
The sourness of the tomato salsa was refreshing, and the asparagus was sweet and juicy. However these could not help much to this dissatisfying main course.
Daily Dessert
The daily dessert was chocolate cake - seriously?The chocolate flavour was so weak that I suspected scarce cocoa powder was the only chocolate ingredient in this cake and its ganache. If the cake were not in brown, I would have thought that was just a piece of sugary cake. Also the amount of nuts was embarrassingly small. Food- J's order
The "Create your own pasta" set included salad and soup (which were double the size of mine), pasta, daily dessert and drink. One could choose the pasta, the ingredient and sauce.J chose French Sweet Shrimp, Broccoli and Cauliflower with dill in cream linguini. The source was creamy and lightly sour, tasting good. However the sweet shrimp was unacceptably small! Including its head, it was even smaller than my little finger. I could hardly imagine a decent restaurant in SOHO would serve shrimps that were so small and dry.
Overall comment/ Next?
J and I still do not understand how this restaurant could receive so many positive comments. Is it because they put more effort or have a better chef at night when they charge people at a much higher price (and the commentators come at night?)? Given that there was full booking, perhaps J and I were the only unfortunate customers? Quite sure that I would not be back again.
題外話/補充資料：
The restaurant was operated by the group Le Fauchon. I visited their website, and found that the words they used to describe themselves did not match with my dining experience.
"The mouth watering audacities were accompanied by impeccable service, nothing more could be asked for..." Nothing more could be asked for? Seriously? Well, it is seriously... doubtful.
(以上食評乃用戶個人意見 , 並不代表OpenRice之觀點。)
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