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2013-03-21
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This around-the-corner French cafe serves various pastry, cup cakes, desserts, coffee, as well as sandwich, quiche and salad. When I was just browsing its glass display window, I found it hard to resist the temptation of the sweets. FoodMilles feuilles $39 (vanilla, salted caramel) I liked the way they decorated the plate with cocoa powder. (smart way to make a large plate serving small piece of food looked full) I am still figuring if there is a way to eat a napoleon type of cake without breaki
FoodMilles feuilles $39 (vanilla, salted caramel)
I liked the way they decorated the plate with cocoa powder. (smart way to make a large plate serving small piece of food looked full)
I am still figuring if there is a way to eat a napoleon type of cake without breaking it into messy pieces.
I tried one layer of cream at a time.
The upper layer tasted like custard cream, when in fact the menu said it was vanilla. It was mildly sweet, and gave a good balance to the denseness of the caramel cream of the bottom layer. The caramel cream was heavy and very sweet although the menu said it had been salted. Those cream went good with the puff pastry which was light and very crispy.
Noisette $39 (Hazelnut and chocolate mousse)
Buying a cake which is wholly coated with mousse or cream needs some imagination (and courage maybe?)- you might anticipate there would be layers, but could only realise what's actually inside after the first bite. As an illiterate in French, the waiter told me that this cake was a hazelnut cake.
This noisette had a shiny caramelised coating which advanced the sweetness of the dessert. The bottom layer was moist chiffon cake. The second and forth dark brown layers were chocolate mousse. The third lighter layer was hazelnut mousse. I expected the hazelnut mousse would have chunks of hazelnut paste- but I was probably too imaginative. The hazelnut mousse was fine and creamy, not bad. On the top, there were three whole pieces of hazelnuts, which carried a nice roasted smell.
But overall the noisette was a bit too sweet that I nearly got choked.
There was the awkward moment to see that on top of the cake, there was a label with a printed bilingual 'non-edible' warning at the back. When such label served nothing but mere decorative purpose (and it wasn't very decorative at all thanks to the printed warning), I would rather prefer no such label was put on the cake at all. This was especially redundant when there was on the cake another piece of edible label with the cafe's name. Service/ Environment
The service was not personal or friendly. The waiter, looking indifferent, simply used one or two words (e.g. "hazelnut") to describe its cake upon my enquiry. When it was about 630pm, the cafe became quite packed, and the waitress did not look happy to see me sitting around for another 15 minutes after finishing the cakes. Hmm I thought the French like to spend a whole afternoon enjoying themselves at a coffee shop? In short the service here was very Hong Kong style.
Having said that, I still found myself comfortable in this nicely decorated cafe.Overall/ next?
The two desserts were not particularly impressive, and seemed to be over-priced. But still I am quite interested in their baguette and salad- may be I would try next time.
題外話/補充資料：
The cafe has a website (www.PassionbyGD.com), which lists out the food and drink they serve with attractive photos. However it does not include the price.
(以上食評乃用戶個人意見 , 並不代表OpenRice之觀點。)
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