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2013-08-06
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Went to Il Posto 97 for the first time to have lunch, as part of the restaurant week deal. The interior arrangement of the tables was nice, as it gave a spacious feel and a much needed respite from the HK lunchtime crowd. From the prix fixe menu, i selected the octopus, potato foam, potato and parsley for the starter; pan seared barramundi fillet, jerusalem artichoke, sour cream and sauteed vegetable for the main; and for dessert i was offered a lemon tart as the two choices on the menu consiste
There was olive oil and balsamic vinegar on our table, but our bread basket took a long time to arrive, and we thought that perhaps we were not going to get it as we were already getting quite a good deal from the restaurant week prix fixe menu. It did arrive after what seemed like ages (more than 20 minutes), and the waiter expressed his apologies for the delay.
The bread basket was a saviour and we noticed that the bread baskets on the other tables were all empty, so we deduced that the other diners had also waited a bit for their food and hence had finished the bread while waiting. Our starters arrived and the octopus, potato foam, potato and parsley was very good.
Then we proceeded to wait for a rather long time for the main course to arrive. While waiting, we observed that the waiters were all very busy trying to bring out new dishes from the kitchen to serve to the diners, as well as trying to clear dishes from tables where the diners had finished their food. However, it was a bit disorganized as some papers stuck to the dishes that were freshly brought out from the kitchen started to fly away (presumably, the papers were marked to indicate which tables they were for), and as they were placed in a row on the counter, the waiters had to make a few extra trips to and fro each time to get missing items (such as cutlery, or sauce).
Our mains were served 40 minutes past our arrival, and my pan seared barramundi fillet was excellent. However, on the plates of our main course, you could see that there had been a flurry of activity in the kitchen as the sauce that was splattered on the plates were not wiped and cleaned up before being served to us. Our guess was that the kitchen might have been missing one or two staff today, resulting in the haphazardness.
Then we waited for our dessert and tea to be served. While waiting, we noticed the blackboard with the daily soup of the day written, as well as some other dishes that were on offer. It seemed that the words too, had been hurriedly written on the blackboard. Our desserts arrived and my lemon tart was just as i expected it to be, while my lunch companion felt a little let down by the tiramisu (in terms of shape and form, as well as the tiny portion).
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