Associazione Chianti

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Item: Associazione Chianti
Rating: 5
Author: brianaki.zao912

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31926

Wan Chai

$401-800

Italian Wine Steak House Bar

brianaki.zao912

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Recently I have had the pleasure of dining in another Black Sheep Group restaurant. This restaurant is known for its Tuscan Italian cuisine, but its speciality is the Black Cattle American Dry-aged steaks.

The location of the restaurant was indeed super convenient and easy to find. Taxis and cars can easily drop you off, and it is a 5 minute walk from the Wan Chai MTR Station and Lee Tung Avenue where you can further check out more stores and just hang out.

The restaurant lighting was dimmed, which I preferably don't enjoy so much, but Steakhouses often use dim lighting to highlight the prepared items on the table. The signature decoration of the restaurant were the big candle sticks which were a nice warm touch. The background music was Italian and American, you can tell if you've been to enough Black Sheep Group restaurants, that its Black Sheep Groupy-songs.

The hospitality was great as waiters kindly greeted us in, helped us with recommendations, wine selections, turning down the AC, picture taking, all with a smile.

The dishes that we ordered are "Beef Tartare"  composed of raw beef, chives, parsley, mustard, shallots, and bread crackers for the starter. Which was an delicious and refreshing to the pallet, as the dish was cold and mustard gave it a nice tang.

For Pastas we ordered the "Parpadelle Pork Ragu"  which is composed of Hand-cut pasta with a beef and pork ragu and parmesan. Also the "Pici Pomodoro Pasta"  composed of hand-rolled pasta, Pomodoro sauce, parmesan, and basils. The Ragu sauce was amazing, pasta was el dente, and you can tell that the sauce has been simmering for a while, and you can really taste the deepness of flavours. The Pici pomodoro was also amazing, the pasta was el dente, and the sauce was creamy and tangy from the tomatoes, which gave it an overall good balance. But one thing I didn't really enjoy was the portion size. Given that each pasta dish was around 250 HKD, we were given a pretty small portion. I guess its quality over quantity, but I think it would be better if they gave us a couple more grams of pasta.

The last dish we ordered was the signature "1kg T-bone steak" and "250g Fillet Mignon" for Entres. The Fillet Mignon was super tender and was delicious, although it was a little bit salty. The 1kg T-bone steak was absolutely incredible, heavy marbling, perfect searing and cook (medium rare). The meat was plentiful and seasoned well, and it was great to have the bone and try to get some more meat off of it. The steaks came with two side dishes and a shallot butter sauce. Braised spinach, and seared mixed mushrooms, both with a lemon slice on the side. The sauce paired beautifully with the two steaks. There was no doubt this was incredibly delicious but also so oily at the same time, I think there also should be an small portion of a salad with a vinaigrette or some tangy dressing to cut through the oiliness of the dish to balance it out. The steak is good to share with about 2-5 people to get a bang for your buck.

Additionally, before the starters, they kindly gave us raw vegetables (carrots, cucumbers, radishes, cherry tomatoes, and lettuce) to dip with olive oil with salt and an almond dressing. As well as in between the starter and pastas they also kindly gave us fresh garlic bread, it was delicious but a bit oily. Sadly, we did not get desert as we were too full, but from what I saw a cake and Tiramisu from other tables that looked pretty good.

Overall, my family and I had a wonderful time at this establishment and had no disappointments, it was delicious and filling. Great place to be with family, friends, co workers, and partners. Will definitely return this fine establishment again. Thank you for the wonderful experience.

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