NOT ONLY CLUBBING | BUNGALOW | HONG KONG

If mentioning Bungalow, you probably won't link it with something about dining but just clubbing. Well, I was the same before I went there for a private dinner recently. Casual French and international menu and the brain behind is from the young Taiwanese Chef, who's creating and trying the modern dining concept.

Imagine the spacious dancing pool is empty and only several dining table around the corners are what the restaurant have at all! The paintings and classical lamps are not only the decoration, but also a door to fantastic atmosphere, just like the candles on the long dining table!

PERFECT CASUAL FRENCH LUNCH-SET IN SOHO | BOUCHON | HONG KONG

It is just a random pick at the beginning of this long Easter Holiday in Hong Kong. I was having brunch (only drink) with my girl friend in Soho, Central, where I was failed to find anything interesting on the menu of our first stop (but their mixed berry smoothy is super good!); we left but just kept walking up and narrowly passed by the main role of this blog post!!! Luckily the '$138 for 2-course / $158 for 3-course' hand-writing on the little blackboard stopped us and had us step in successfully :P

Otherwise, we would have lost this chance to discover the so-cheap but so-good place for (business) lunch in the heart of Central area.

BREAD N BUTTER CAFE | HONG KONG

It was the start of warm weekend in Hong Kong, where we found it super difficult to have a decent place to continue the girls talk with my fellow beauties in Central. Walking down from Sheung Wan, a spacious outdoor cafe discovery is totally in vain; so that we swift our attention to PMQ. Bread n Butter Cafe, with the showcase by bread n butter, another cross-boarder play in Hong Kong. Parisian style leads the whole cafe's design, even including the menu. It's featured by a collection of traditional French crepes but also some Asian twist like Crepe Hong Kong or Crepe Tokyo. As to the drink menu, it is more British to my opinion which offer a wide range of tea (served by T-brand tea bag) in some special flavor like ginger & lemon. 

QUAYSIDE | HONG KONG

It is not easy to find such a spacious and outdoor place inside the downtown circle of Hong Kong city nowadays. Benefitted from the old maritime rest-house, the modern French restaurant, Quayside is offering a nice place for happy hour, for comfort dinner and for relax brunch with breeze. The little tropic design outdoor area is very beautiful even due to the harbour construction, the view is kind of blocked by the big machines nesting in the water. It is a typical harbour-side designed restaurant, a casual bar; romantic dining tables lighted by candles; a classically chic showcase space for wine collection and cigars; and a rectangular outdoor terrace with a thin boulevard aside the harbour. The servings are French causal, also due to the coming warm season, Chef. Andrew, specially designs the appetite-stimulated  spring menu with the combination of spices, herbs and sour & sweet dressing.

LA VACHE! | HONG KONG

It is not the first time I visit La Vache! Yes, I seldom visit the same restaurant in Hong Kong given such a big market and new openings in HK's dining world. Decent quality charged decently with a little special, is my basic rule to criteria a restaurant, and La Vache! wins.

Simple, is their winning point to me, just like ads commercial slogan 'Less is More', besides satisfying the basic human being's desire on feeding,  sometimes, to keep everything simple and even take away the choices from your clients, is the best way to satisfy them (especially to those complicated client who's always too struggling to a long list of dishes and drinks, like me :D).

LES SAVEURS PRIVATE KITCHEN | HONG KONG

I would like to call Private Kitchen as Below-the-Line restaurants, because most of them are running well based on the clients' recommendation in their own networks. Normally those restaurants have very limited seats; they don't expect a crowd and they do reservation only. It might be the bad news to the eaters who are always craving good dining concepts.

Want to try private kitchen?

Here you go, one of 'below-the-line' restaurants in Causeway.

GOODBYE SET LUNCH | THE PRESS ROOM | HONG KONG

You have no idea how busy this week I am and it's not because of blogger event, but my personal schedule for those closing restaurant. And on the closing in this week list, there are two from the same dining group, The Press Room and The Pawn (actually, it is just closed temporarily for renovation). The Press Room, the casual French-European restaurant on Hollywood Road, will run till this Friday, thus I have already no chance for their weekend brunch menu, while I still have time for set lunch, which is what I'm going to say something now and here.

STAY TILL THE END | FRENCH WINDOW | HONG KONG

That night is in a French way from head to tail. All of us are drink-able and talk-able, and we have a quite smart fine dining selection of French Window. We are not the first table that night, while we are absolutely the last one even one hour later than the normal closing time. French Window belongs to Mira Dining Group in Hong Kong, located in IFC Mall, it is a slightly casual French restaurant or say, bistro. Seafood and a line of popular French dishes are available there, also with a name list of familiar desserts. All you can have there, is following the traditional and familiar French cuisine.

3-COURSE DINNER | LA MARMITE | HONG KONG

La Marmite

46 Stauton Street, Soho, Central, Hong Kong

+852 2803 7808

lamarmite@aqua.com.hk

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Aqua Group

Having a casual walk in Soho area, there is always a line of pink green sharpening my eyes when they are used to the slightly dark color tone of Soho's restaurants. La Marmite, is a casual and light French (Paris) style bistro with a selection of French dishes and a blackboard of dining wines. The recently-promoted 3-course dinner, refreshes the 'expensive' definition of French dining in my mind. It is where you can have a relax French dinner with a middle-level price, while still you can stay and enjoy your dinner as long as 3 (even 4) hours.

FRENCH GOURMET SET | LE SALON RESTAURANT ET CROISSANTERIE | HONG KONG

LE SALON RESTAURANT ET CROISSANTERIE

Shop 1302, Hysan Place, 500 Hennessy Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

Tel. 21153328

Fax. 21153355

Email. info@lesalondining.com.hk

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SET DINNER | COCOCABANA

COCOCABANA

G/F, Shek O Beach Building, Shek O, Hong Kong

T. 2812 2226

E. cocobay@biznavigator.com

Menu & Spoken. English | French | Chinese

Mon to Sun. 12nn - 11pm

Chef | Owner. Jean-Paul Gauci

Cuisine. French Mediterranean 

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驚喜連篇姐妹聚 - Spoon by Alain Ducasse

四個愛甜愛咸愛吃愛喝愛吹水的 Food Blogger 聚在一起，總有那麼多驚喜與火花，這日來到Intercontinental Hong Kong 兩粒星星的法國餐廳 Spoon by Alain Ducasse，本單純衝着甜而來，沒想到一路從附送的新品前菜、一籃子麵包，一路奮戰到主菜、甜品，壓軸的還有美美四味雪糕與精緻無比的餐後甜品，驚喜一波接一波，一浪高過一浪！

Informal Media Gathering at La Cantoche

Didn't expect could visit La Cantoche, this nice and chic French restaurant again so soon. Second time to come, I become more familiar to go straight into the little dark lane; cute server & bartender still welcome everyone by his warm smile. This time, we gonna spent our relax night time with rose and red/white wine with new friends and PR friends at this informal media gathering. 

La Cantoche

中上環一帶西餐廳、小酒館多不勝數，這一間卻有些小小不同。法國餐廳走的卻不是大家所期待的法式路線，小巷里的店面漆成黑色，餐廳與酒吧的結合體，底層的空間玩味十足，充滿剛性與型格元素，以大片黑白block拼接出來的空間，乾淨俐落，照片墻、紅白機遊戲卡、poster，每一件都是恰到好處的裝飾品，可見店主的chic 口味。

HOME FEEL & MUM'S COOK

Le French May is a kind of the hot topic in Hong Kong with French gourmets, wines, arts… In the middle May, being invited by one of my friend who has booked a dinner in one little French bistro nested in Central, hidden in the narrow lane.

我只是想把團購券用完【Delifrance】

如果有一直看我的博客應該對我的團購心得有點印象，曾經提及團購的質素往往讓人汗顏，但只要識得選就能大大避免中招的危險，而選一般即挑選自己熟悉的餐飲品牌或者出錯係數較低的食品種類（加鏈接）

但這次我要申明本人的心得照樣有踩雷的危險！不久前購入Delifrance抵用券兩張，依稀記得曾經獨遊赤柱之時對集市中的delifrance bistro 很很有興趣，後來又在時代廣場底下看到那時做緊promotion（心太軟買一送一）的廣告，心裡的小草早已種下，故此次算是高期望光顧！不料兩度失望而迴！

Croissant Day【Le Salon Restaurant et Croissanterie】

希慎開業已有一段時間，還記得剛開業那會，關於希慎一高一低幾層食肆的食評鋪天蓋地，無論是官方傳媒，媒體平臺還是香港活躍著的各位食家都不厭其煩的“發連珠”，瞬間捧火了好幾家餐廳（拉麵，牛角酥，雪糕，咖喱，上海菜）不得不讓人驚歎WOM的力量0-0

自己雖然也多次光臨希慎，但都與裏面的食肆擦肩而過，不是因為吸引力不夠，而是正巧每次都早已有了其他的飯局安排不得已要放棄留“胃”；上週六正是中秋佳節的前一天，被友人臨時拉了去銅鑼灣逛街shopping，肩頭還“坨”著一個學生雙肩包(⊙o⊙) 不過也正是因為事出突然，讓我有機會一嘆希慎里早已“紅得發紫，紫得發黑”的牛角酥！一上一下垂直相隔十四層之多的牛角酥將要在那日做個大PK；這一篇就先來說說“高高在上”的【帶餡】牛角酥。

低調與時尚的衝擊—— Agnes b. le pain grille

好似型格的法國人週末必然要出街購物搜尋小飾品及心水衣物外加嘆一頓悠然餐點一般，放足近四個月暑假的我也漸漸養成週日必出行慰勞自己的習慣（儘管平日裡也是日日“昏度”），這日便選中位於九龍塘的Festival Walk ，有別於喧囂的尖沙咀以及近日火爆滿城的銅鑼灣，又一城則相對更寬闊舒適些，不過週末的人流算不少，咖啡室、西餐廳、連鎖快餐店就連Food Court 都是作物缺席外加拖著小尾巴的隊伍，無奈自己只能鑽進“藏”得很好的 Agnes b. 享受一個人的下午時光。

這家店位於UG層且以Agnes b. sport 的店面為掩護，故夸之“藏”得很好。充滿鋼鐵冷硬氣息的深黑色鐵格玻璃門即是門也是窗，更是墻，作用有些類似于中國的屏風；餐廳內金屬灰暗色格調唯有盞盞型格吊燈發出的“太陽光”提亮，門口的暗紫色射燈則很好的將購物區以及餐飲區隔開；週末的下午餐廳中的聊天聲、笑聲、小朋友的鬧聲此起彼伏其中也夾著叮叮噹當的餐具碰撞的清脆響聲。

T3中的幸福—— Paul Lafayet

中午出門之時已掛上T1風球警告，到了銅鑼灣發現風和日麗下人流更是緊密，其中要屬銅鑼灣新地 Hysan Place 最為熱鬧，搭乘扶手電梯之時抬頭一望，上層密密麻麻的人隊一個跟一個的緩緩移動中，原來大家都跟我一樣完全無視風球來襲，也無視悶熱天氣，照樣扮靚靚出街搵好野！

位於4F 露天廣場口的 Paul Lafayet 新店不似其他新開店鋪那樣門口擺滿賀喜花籃，店面的格調以及店內細細味的佈置都與 K11的地鋪如出一轍，還是那個拉絲的深褐色餅柜，還是那長方形的狹窄的暖光空間，高臺座位也只多了幾個而已，還有一個相同點，便是餅柜前絡繹不絕的人堆，來往的人流總是不能無視玻璃后的那一排排可愛精緻的西餅以及五彩繽紛的小杏仁餅；幾經考慮還是放棄乳酪雪糕，選擇正正經經的吃一頓甜品下午茶，儘管無飲品，無環境，儘管屈指一算六日前剛幫襯過 K11 的店鋪。。。

顛覆舊印象的少女酥胸—— Paul Lafayet

還是那個悶熱無比的週末之夜，一行三人食佐拉麵之後非要搵些甜品把自己的另外一個胃慰勞一下，礙於The One 五樓新開的Harlan's 人氣太旺只有企位，三人便灰溜溜的跑出來“散步”至K11，不料這個點了反而是人氣最旺的時候，Paul Lafayet 餅柜前無空位，唯有兩三個高臺位也是早已有主，Smile 長隊讓人咋舌，Holly Brown 也是高堂滿座並被店員告知需等上15分鐘才能吃到現做的Ice Cream，Mall 中大部份店鋪又已經收鋪，無奈只能在此折回狹窄走道中的Paul Lafayet，只能take away 到K11 中心廣場處來個露天甜品會。

來到餅柜前人比起先前稍稍減少了些，常常的餅柜中也只剩下不多件賣相精緻可愛的蛋糕，熱門款 Cream Brulee 以及Chocolate Mousse 還有些，Macaron 倒也剩下不少，口味大約有六七種，也足夠選擇了。在餅柜前躊躇了好一會，終於大家選好自己的心頭好，店內只收現金以及八達通，索性能用八達通還算是方便，付了錢店員小心翼翼的將蛋糕以及Macarons 包裝起來，樣子精緻，再配以印有Logo 的紙袋，細細個，遞給我們的時候還特別叮囑一定要在30分鐘之內享用，否則就會大大影響到蛋糕的口感和質素，從頭到尾都貫徹精緻法國風。