have read about this butcher's place on magazine several times (their aberdeen store) but never able to spare time to go there. To my surprise, they have opened up a branch burger shop in wanchai and so it is a `must` visit to burger fan like me in particular this shop is so close to my office.

we arrived at 8pm and this place was already full house. we were fortunately to sit near the bar table and get to watch the chef preparing the burger.

it took about 10 minutes for our burgers and fries arrived. The burger looked very delicious to us in particular the buns were not the traditional ones with sesame on top. As we picked up the burgers, we were kind of surprise that the buns were only at room temperature. The meat patties were cooked to medium well that keeps the burger really juicy. Besides that the buns were at room temperature, everything including the atmosphere were excellent.

If theburgers were not charged for $100, i will definitely come more frequently.

I am a real pancake fan. As I read from the magazine that this shop has the japanese style pancake, I quickly rushed to this place after work.

Hung and I ordered this pancake for sharing. Besides the pancake, this set comes with 2 cups of drinks. I ordered a latte for myself; meanwhile, hung ordered an english tea himself.The latte came first as the pancake needed time for baking. I was amazed that this shop did a little bit of a latte art. The latte was quite strong with long aftertaste. It would be a good fit if I drink it in the morning time.

The pancake came in approx. 12 mins after I placed my order. The appearance is really attractive as the deep pancake was decorated with strawberry and almond flakes on top. The pancake was rich in butter and egg flavor. The outer part of it was not as crusty as it was described on the magazine. The pancake was baked rather than grilled; however, cannot tell much difference between the two methods.

Overall speaking, the pancake and coffee tasted quite good but the price is a little bit expensive.

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Read from magazine that this is a specialty chain coffee shop from russia. And so I kind of have high expectation to see what russian's coffee is like.

Before I entered the shop, i was deeply attracted by all those coffee assessories displayed near the window. This shop also roasted their coffee beans. But by looking at the volume of the bags they displayed, I wondered if they are just like normal US chain coffee shops where freshness of beans is not in top priority.

I ordered a latte for take away as I was in rush for a meeting. When I placed my order, the barista told me that their latte was in more in a milky flavor. In other words, their coffee is not strong enough??

I didn't watched how the barista prepared my latte as I need to head to a washroom and by the time I came out, my latte was already waiting for me. On my way out, I was curious to see how the milk texture was like and so I opened up the lid. To my surprise, the latte was prepared in a similar way as Caffe Kenon in which the milk was first poured in the cup followed by my espresso. I was in deep disappointment that there was no latte art which could at least stood out from those normal chain coffee shop in hong kong.

In regards of its flavor, as the barista has said previously, the coffee tasted just like milk. Coffee is so weak that it you cannot tell you were drinking of a coffee. After taste is weak and aroma simply does not even exist! 

I am glad to see this place opened their branch store in causewaybay so that I don't have to go all the way to central to have good waffle.

I arrived a little bit early for movie in JP and so i decided to have a lunch before the movie. The restaurants in here mostly were empty (perhaps it was still too early) but this place was already half full of people.

We ordered a steak breakfast, spaghettic bolognaisse and a blue berry waffle. The spaghetti came first even though it was a baked dish. I have to say I somehow became a bit picky these days and even though the taste of it was ok, i gave it a rating of average only. The cheese was well melted with the meat sauce, but somehow I just don't feel the passion from the cook making the dish. The steak breakfast was really a big disappointment. Again, nothing wrong with the taste, but the steak just tasted like the one they served in Cafe de Coral. It simply downgrade the overall impression I have for this place. Moreover, talking about the poached egg, it looks nice and round. But to be picky, it wasn't a poached egg, it was merely a soft boil eggs without the eggshell. Egg yolk was runny, but it was only slightly warm. The fried potatoes tasted the best among this dish.Lastly, it came my waffle. It was by far the best waffle I have ever had! Usually waffle only tasted good if you dip it inside the maple syrup. But this one, you can actually eat it without dipping it into the syrup as the waffle itself is already sweet enough. The only drawback for this dish was that they served it with some low quality ice cream.

Man, when Holly Brown first launched in Hong Kong, it gave me an image of a place with high quality of coffee. Remembered the big roasters they put in Stanley store and all those amazing latte art on the coffee?? 

Well, I happened to drop by Tsim Sha Tsui this evening. I passed by Illy but I didn't dare to go inside as I am a strong believer that only fresh roasted coffee taste good. So I decided to take another 2 min walk to Holly Brown and hoping to get a decent cup of coffee. I ordered my coffee and stand there waiting for it. I saw the barista has three orders  in hand but he was only chatting with his colleague from time to time and it took that genius to make three cups of coffee in 10 minutes. 10 minutes? No kidding. He was only concentrated in chatting with his colleague and don't give a damn about customers making for the coffee!

My latte finally came. As Holly Brown was known to have one of the best latte art in the industry (at least before as i recalled in my memory), I was shocked when my coffee arrived! The barista did not have poor sense of customer service, he doesn't know a single bit about making coffee. The bubbles are large and the latte art is a complete disaster. If you don't know how to do it properly, you might as well serve it the way Starbucks does. Although Starbucks does not have latte art, the barista knows how to differentiate what a latte is and what a cappuccino is. The foam on my coffee was about 20mm thick. I saw him made two lattes before my order and the foam was perfectly at 10mm. What the heck??

Besides about the appearance, the coffee only tasted bitter and hot. I saw they put up a sign saying that if the milk reaches over 70, the texture will break down or something like that. But my coffee was definitely over 70!

I have a little suggestion for this shop. If the barista cannot control the foam at the right amount, they better serve the coffee in a cup that is not transparent. There is no need to pretend to be a specialty coffee shop if you don't have proper barista. Moreover, don't charge the coffee at a high price. Your coffee is no better than any of your chain store competitor! 

Arrived at around 10:30 am and the place was half empty. I asked the waiter whether there is a table for 4 people and it took them 5 minutes to figure out whether there is any empty table.

Three of us have ordered egg benedicts while the remaining one decided to go for a french toast. The egg benedicts were the average ones you can have on other many restaurants (from the look and the taste). The hollandise sauce is buttery taste with a hint of lemon. However, one of my friend said that the toast tasted bitter. When we flipped over his toast, omg, no wonder it tasted bitter, it was burnt!  I really want to know why a chef would still serve this toast out as he obvious know it is burnt. Well, we made our complaint and the server was extremely generous as she offered to give us a whole new egg benedict for compensation.

The french toast on the other hand also look very ordinary. If they did not set the price so high, I would have no complaint on this at all as it tasted like the one in those chinese fast food restaurant. 

read about this place from magazine and decided to give it a try . i arrived at eight and it was full house already. I ordered a cheeseburger and nothing else considered that i still have to go home for dinner.

I've spent about 10minutes at the queue even though there were only two people in front of me. it seems that the lady responsible for taking order couldn't do her job properly as she needs to repeat the customers' order many times before she got it right.

After i placed my order, i waited for 5? minutes and the server called me out for pick up. The first impression i got from this burger was that it is very very plain. The bun is thin, and the patty is even thinner! Considering its thickness, i am kind of disappointed that the patty was kind of burnt and that makes it tasted a bit crunchy. This reminds me of the burger i had in Fatburger 10years ago!

Regarding the taste, my only compliments were that the vegetables were fresh. Nothing excited me to come back again. The patty was kind of salty, too. I have to immediately drink a bottle of water afterwards.

Sad to see Coffee Plus closed down but glad to see Eric Kayser opened their branch store in Happy Valley. Before I was worried that it would be occupied by another real estate agency company due to the high rent.

Eric Kayser is situated on a nice and quiet Ventris Road. If you look at the shop front, you would only thought of it as a bakery shop as bread baskets were located all over the window area, but in fact they also service brunch and dinner.

I guess the store has only opened for a few days and there were not many people dining in. I have ordered a burger, croque Monsieur and a ciabatta. Besides, after a day of hard work, I decided to ordered a latte to keep me awake throughout my meal.

My coffee firstly arrived among my order. As expected, the quality of it is quite low and in some case similar to starbucks. The foam was already separated from the milk when it arrived. There was some sort of latte art on top but of course a complete disaster. I do not understand why if the owner is willing to invest on an espresso machine and a grinder, why won't they give proper training to their staff to make good coffee. Otherwise, with this kind of standard, they might be better off to buy a fully automatic coffee machine.Next came my burger. The appearance of the burger is the kind of standard I expected from this store! Although the burger was quite salty,it tasted incredibly good! The meat was so tender and it kind of melted in my mouth! This reminds me the best burger I have ever eaten in Duke's burger. And since Duke's no longer existed, I would say Eric Kayser now have the best burger in town!In regards of my ciabatta, it is also quite good but not as excited as the burger. The cheese and pesto sauce go well with the bread.Lastly came my croque Monsieur. I always thought this would come along with a fried egg but this one is simply bread sandwiched with ham and cheese. The taste of it is only average to me..

I will definitely come back to this store for bread and burger in the future. However, I think this place would really rock if they can improve their coffee to standard like the one 'Coffee Plus' served before, as coffee goes well with bread.

Glad to see another newly opened restaurant in Happy Valley!

Don't remember when was the last time I had Mexican food but somehow when I first seen this shop, I had strong motivation to go in to give it a try.

The shop gave me an impression of clean and cool looking. Since I was already running late for an appointment, I only ordered a burito and taco for take away.The lady in there was very very efficient. She is not only the cashier but also responsible for cooking. The whole process only took her around 7 minutes I guess and the food was well above average

Since I didn't eat the taco, I will only comment on the burrito. I have to admitted that the burrito was in perfect harmony. The carne asada was a little juicy, not dry like most carne asada I have had. However, there were several bits and pieces of tendon. Small hiccup in an otherwise good burrito, I guess.

The rice and beans inside the burrito is usually what I would eat on a plate as side dishes. The rice and beans provided a nice contrast to the meat inside the burrito.I will definitely come back again for another burrito!

Shake'em Buns was my all time favourite burger shop. I still remember there was always a long queue when they first opened in Star Street. They have expanded into Causeway and Central couple years ago but somehow Central store is the only one that is left...

This is actually the first time I visited their Central store. The reason I came here was that I suddenly starved for good burger and realize that Shake'em bun is the only store I liked.

I came here at around 3pm. Surprisingly there was only a few customers inside. Once again I ordered my favourvite Hawaiian surfer girl ?? (burger with pineapple and bacon). As usual, I didn't ordered anything to drink as the burger is juicy enough to keep me away from thirst.

There were only 2 staff at the time I entered the shop. One was concentrated on preparing the burger patties. The other one was the cashier and cook. The time it took them to get my burger was around 7 minutes since I paid? I would say the quality of the burger was still as good as it was the last time I ate them in their already closed Wanchai store. The meat patty was juicy and most importantly tender. The bacon was crunchy and the pineapply was grilled properly. There is nothing I can complain about the burger at all and I believe it is still the number one burger store in Hong KOng. I hope the owner will consider opening more branch store so that I don't have to come up to Central everytime I want to have a good burger.