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2013-11-10
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We were in Sai Kung today to do some shopping and came across Casa. Someone had told us about it and the only reason we hadn't been in yet was due to not having "walked past" it.Anyway, we got there quite early in the evening so there was no wait for a table which was good. However when we sat down, we had one waiter come over trying to sell drinks, who then proceeded to disappear when we said we were waiting for someone to join. Then a completely different waiter came over after again asking if
Anyway, we got there quite early in the evening so there was no wait for a table which was good. However when we sat down, we had one waiter come over trying to sell drinks, who then proceeded to disappear when we said we were waiting for someone to join. Then a completely different waiter came over after again asking if they could explain the drinks menu to us....it's a tapas bar, we would have preferred they offered to explain the food rather than the self-explanatory drinks.
I was a little dissapointed to hear they didn't serve regular soft drinks, only a speciality cola, which was way to sweet and tasted like a cola/root beer cross. Quite sickly when you just want a familiar drink with your meal.
We ordered:
Fried Chorizo: standard fare, decent portion, cut into long strips, was actually too much so we had it wrapped to take away (funnily they didn't have take away boxes so they wrapped in tin foil then put in a paper bag)
Vegetables with Hummous: Sticks of carrot, peppers, celery and hummous, very standard, felt like a M&S lunch snack. Vegetables didn't taste fresh.
Mussels: Very tasty a tad too salty though, came served in a beer mug which was cute, only one which smelt off, but we ate the rest.
Bocadillios with Anchovies and Tomato: This was a dissapointment as I recently got back from Madrid where I had this. In Casa it was 4 small slices of baguette (not toasted) with a dab of butter, half a cherry tomato, an anchovy wrapped around a basil leaf. The butter didn't taste good at all, would have been better with olive oil. The bread was not toasted and the whole thing tasted too salty. Perhaps it was salted butter with the salty anchovy?
Anyway, the food, was nothing special all the dishes were the "small" ones, the vegetables and the bocadillos were least worth the cost. This kind of place seems to serve better as a pre-dinner drinks and snacks to be honest, versus the sit down tapas long dinner kind of place you would get in Spain. It does have a good selection of beers and wines so for your aperitif it's not bad, lots of tables outside for smokers.
The one thing that actually drove me crazy however was the inattentiveness of the staff. There must have been about 6 of them serving just a few tables, not counting the people in the open kitchen and the people milling around that were either friends or perhaps the owners, but all of them had their head down. They were busy drinking their own drinks or just dissapearing, in fact I heard the chef ask a few times where people had dissapeared to. Everytime we tried to get someone's attention we had to literally get up and walk over to one. They didn't hear calls or anything, and it wasn't that busy. For that very reason I would never come here again, there are pleanty of better restaurants in Sai Kung with better service, food and pricing.
Too many cooks, or in this case waiters, spoil the broth.
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