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2013-06-19
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After eventually securing a table over a month in advance I was very excited to try Catalunya last night, unfortunately the results were pretty disappointing.There are few decent Spanish restaurants in HK and most fall prey to the trap of wanting to mess around with the dishes adding superfluous touches and flavours; Catalunya is another one to add to the list.Arrival was promising - welcome friendly and atmosphere v lively.Unfortunately service is not one of their strong points. The waiter seem
There are few decent Spanish restaurants in HK and most fall prey to the trap of wanting to mess around with the dishes adding superfluous touches and flavours; Catalunya is another one to add to the list.
Arrival was promising - welcome friendly and atmosphere v lively.
Unfortunately service is not one of their strong points. The waiter seemed untrained and clearly had a very limited understanding of the menu, struggling to answer any questions on the dishes and his English was quite tricky to understand. He offered to recommend wines but then could only point me to page where the white wines were on the list. Similarly throughout the meal he forgot whether we had water or wine and had to be reminded constantly. He also turned up with wine we ordered already opened at the table. Maybe nothing terrible, but at this price point its really unacceptable.
We did not go for main courses but rather a selection of tapas. The food is ok but, as other reviewers commented, why mess with things unnecessarily - I don't want piementos de padron slathered in a gooey sweet glaze which ruins them nor do I want what could have been a nice tortilla covered in a huge layer of mayonnaise. This doesn't add anything burying the ingredients in these gloopy sticky flavours. I've eaten tapas in all parts of Spain and I've not experienced this before. I realise they are importing a lot of ingredients but this also very long way from cheap.
All in the food was ok but I am longing for a place in HK to open where they offer proper classic tapas with great ingredients and good atmosphere - Bocqueria seems by far the best option right now - quite a few other cites outside of Spain seem to be able to manage this but few people seem to be interested in doing this in HK.
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