Top of the pops from our visitt, another confirmation of the high standard of food in this town. In order of preference. Only made it to the first five, but the others seem to have a buzz right now.
- Cafe Paci: Ex-Marque Finnish chef Pasi Petanen and Hungarian maitre d' have created a pop-up restaurant until January 2015. Truly high level cooking and service. Memorable stuff included mud crab, pomelo, dill and vadouvan; shredded duck, smoked kohlrabi with cider vinegar; cabbage, anchovy, parsley and parmesan (my favorite as it tasted like a pasta-less pesto pasta, with cabbage acting as the "spaghetti vehicle" for other ingredients); photatoe, the chef's take on a Vietnamese Pho; carrot, yoghurt, licorice (Australia Traveller's dish of the year); 6) rye ice cream, apple, white beer, cocoa and malt (so elegant); pork and fennel (a pork rind, dipped in chocolate with fennel seeds…loved it).
- Izakaya Fujiyama: an enjoyable evening solo dining at the counter interacting with the sushi chef. Highlights included bonito Tosazukuri, lime miso kingfish & corn chips, grilled octopus & grapefruit confit.
- Yellow: expertly prepared food from the people at Bentleys.
- The Apollo: lovely modern Greek food with a nice vibe indeed, perfect for a Sunday lunch made more interesting by our super cool tattooed French surfer waiter. Our dessert was the best sweet thing I've eaten in a long time, their Avgolemeno pie in a beautiful India-made, ice-cold dish.
- Chocho-san: spanner crab on toasted bun, eggplant miso dip, hokkaido scallops with corn cream & shaved house-dried bonito, mussels & kimchi
- Esters: Wood-fired treats.
- Movida: The offshoot of the popular Melbourne Spanish.
- 121 BC: Italian casual, just like the one here in HK.
- 4 Fourteen: wishing I had gone as this is the sister restaurant of my favorite gastropub, the Four in Hand.
- Monopole: Mediterranean, home-cured meats.
- Ko &: Co. Korea & Mexican fusion.
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