It’s actually one of the restaurants on my list which I would like to pay a visit for loooong. I appreciate and admire the contemporary French cuisine. It was quite comfy that I paid my first visit here for brunch during weekend. I had chosen the seats close to the window.

Looking for a nice restaurant which suits for friends gathering, I randomly found this Italian restaurant from internet. L' Hart, the newly hip building for contemporary cuisines in Causeway Bay. It’s my first time to check out this new building, I paid a visit to the Italian restaurant on 25/F, the Otto Restaurant and Bar.

When I first arrived here, I was like ‘WoW’. It looked so cozy, silent and romantic, scored points! We were arranged to a table which was closed to the window, too bad the curtain covered the view that we couldn’t enjoy the night view of Causeway Bay.

It is quite nice that Otto doesn’t have any time restriction for dining, so it provides a very nice environment for friends gathering. You could sit there as long as you want. We had ordered the dinner set for four courses (HKD328 + 10%). It includes the starter, the appetizer, the main course and the dessert.

Under a special occasion, we could enjoy a buffet dinner at the price $248+10% per person at DAP. Seeing the comments here are quite positive, which give me confidence to pay a visit. Surprised me that I had to make reservation for a table by three weeks eariler (since the dates I proposed were ALL FULL), I wonder it must be a very popular restaurant?

The first impression when I arrived the first floor of DAP, a strong terrible smell was spread out from toilet, which just locates at the end of the narrow corridor outside the restaurant. I wondered if the outside condition is such horrible, how good the quality of the food could be in the restaurant?

We were settled in a separate room in DAP, which looks quite sophisticated actually. I adore the Victorian style in the house. The semi dinner buffet is actually about unlimited filling of appetizers, desserts and wines. You could only choose one main course from the provided list. To be honest, it’s actually quite disappointing of the limited choices for appetizer and dessert (I couldn’t eat too much though). Moreover, the speed of refilling is horribly slow... this strategy of DAP is smart. It claimed as ‘buffet’ but actually it is quite limited. The Salad green tasted fine, but that’s nothing to deal with the cooking skill of the Chefs from DAP. Fishes sashimi tasted ordinary, at least they were clean and not stink. I think the Shrimp cocktail is fairly good out of the rest, shrimp tasted simply fresh.

Knowing the InterCon is promoting the chinese style afternoon tea – the Red Box ($488+10% for two), which is the greatest production of Michelin one starred restaurant –Yan Toh Heen. It interested me to give a try! You know, it’s common to have western style afternoon tea everywhere, but Chinese style afternoon tea ? I’d never tried before.

Before the Red Box arriving, I had ordered the Calendula tea for tasting. The Calendula beauty was wrapped within the jasmine tea leaves. It’s burst with the pleasing fragrance and flavour of light jasmine tea. I simply like the way it was supposed to be.

The St. Valentine's Day is held on Tuesday this year. Since it’s not an official public holiday, we’re more willing to have the ‘pre-vday’ dinner in weekend than the exact day. We started planning since early Feb. I didn’t expect it would be such difficult. My ideal restaurants were either fully booked or only provided vday menu on the exact day (which means no ‘pre vday menu’). Finally, I came up with Agnès b. Unlike the others, Agnès b provided the celebrating menu ($1680+10% service charge for two persons) from February 6th to 14th. We decided to go on Sat evening.

Oh my… I was bewitched by its beautiful decoration of the entrance when we arrived the Agnès b. le pain grillé. Embracing by the shining plants on both sides, Agnès b brings out the strong Parisian romantic atmosphere; it reminds me the avenue des Champs-Élysées (The most beautiful avenue in Paris).We settled in a nice corner with the view of the HK skyline. We first received our ‘welcome cocktails’ before the dinner started. The cocktail was mixed up by Gin, Mint and Milk. My partner said it tasted fine but I didn’t really fancy it, simply I dislike milk mixed with gin… it’s Vday celebration, I was hoping the ‘welcome cocktails’ would be somewhat like cosmopolitan, rose wine, sparkling champagne, etc. A bit disappointed at this point indeed.

The appetizerz arrived, actually both of them adopted similar ingredients but presented differentiatedly. I chose this one for mine, they twisted the salmon marinated into rose shape, served with red beetroot, crab meat, blinis, dill sour cream. Tasted pale but looked so delicate. The other one is the salmon & crab meat tartlet with capsicum & lemon, which seasoned with lobster mayonnaise. Well, simply like the tartlet tasted fabulous and nice decoration with flower on a side.