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2015-02-25
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All these glamourous reviews of this restaurant on here sound like an exercise in trying to fit the experience to expectations which I'm sure were quite high going in as was mine. However, if you were to visit this place without knowing it was awarded 2 Michelin Stars, that it was inside one of the most expensive hotels in HKG, or that it was on the San Pellegrino Top 50 list, I would venture to guess the reviews would be a little more.....errrr neutral?Service: Impeccable (even if it was diff
Service: Impeccable (even if it was difficult to understand most of the broken heavy accented English from the servers but we are in China afterall so no deductions for that)
Wine List: For a 2 Michelin * I was surprised at the lack of depth and choices. You want a real wine list, try Joel Robuchon in Tokyo or Veritas in NYC
Food: Had the degustation menu and most of the dishes "looked like a Ferrari and drove like a Fiat." Other than the uni dish which was decadent but let's face it, if you're a fan of uni, it's hard to muck that one up, the rest were textbook "let's throw a bunch of fancy sounding ingredients and processes together and build something pretty" which would be a crowning achievement had the taste matched its looks. Even the piece of wagyu (the size of an index finger btw) looked tender, marbled with fat, but ended up being tougher than any real Japanese beef I've ever had. "Melt-in-your-mouth" it was not. I could go on and on but why waste any more time when nearly every dish tried to follow the same aforementioned formula of "make it look pretty, taste is secondary."
Price: I'm not a stickler for price if the quality justifies it. In this case, that was sadly not to be the case.
Overall: If you're like me and just need to try a place for the sake of trying (because you need to judge for yourself), then by all means give it a try. Nobody can be blamed for giving every place a try. But try to judge it on its merits and not its hype and you may not be as wowed as the others on here seem to be. JMHO.
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