City Art Restaurant  

ahhh it's been such a long time since I last update! Anyway my schedule has been super packed. There were so much to deal with such as school work, exams, recruitment talks and trainings, stuff to do with ECA.... urghhhh honestly sometimes I just wish to be staying in bed on a Sunday morning and have a big breakfast when I get up without anything 'urgent' in mind. Just relax and chill.It was actually a really pleasant family activity on a Sunday morning. We were arranged to be sitted next to the glass wall with a gleam o sunshine beaming in.

This is the first time I tried the brunch menu in City Art. Unfortunately I have not written any reviews for weekday lunch. For more details of the dinner menu, please refer to http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2237601

The buffet bar was pretty fruitful. Tha bar was showcasing more 10 different types of mouth watering salads, including seafood-mixed ones, grilled tomato and herbs, assorted mushroom salad, chicken prawn salad... etc. You can also make your own salad as they provide you with plenty of veggie choices. Beside the salad bar we have the oysters and the seafood. Here serves 3 types of oysters, one less compared to the dinner buffet - Auckland Rock from New Zealand , Fanny Bay and Taylor from US. My favouite was Fanny Bay since it is not as buttery as Auckland Rock, while the Taylor was too briny and metallic for, almost as robust as Coffin Bay from Australia. Fanny Bay was just right. Light and delectable.I have also tried some queen crab. The meat was flaky, succulent and honeyed. but the crab legs are not as fat as other buffet places. These are slightly slender. They provide you with the necesary tools to taste the crab. It felt awesome when opening up the tough shell and forking out a huge chunk of fresh crab meat! Mum, Dad and I were getting all excited about this. Scallops were not bad too. Size was massive and the flesh was sweet and moist.On the other side of the buffet area, they had the cold cut, cheeses and fruits and nuts that go with them, various bread and dips etc. The choice of cold cut was wark compared to the dinner and weekday lunch semi-buffet menu, with coppa and salami served as well. Though it is not bad for a Sunday brunch (and too be honest I don't have much room for trying out all the ham and cheese ) Ham and melon always make the perfect match. The ham very thinly cut this time so it is much easier to chew. Parma ham was smokey and savory. Though the aroma of the pork itself is lacking.

For cheese, I tried emmental and French brie. Emmental was mellow and full-bodied, while brie was lacking the creaminess.My favourite deep was crab meat dip and guacamole. Crab meat on its own with bread is a bit too heavy for me, while served with guacamole makes a great balance together.

It's funny that they serve poppadoms too! But there was no chutney to go with it. I would suggest to have a few dips that are more refreshing since most we see here are mixed heavily in mayo or cream.They were serving roast sirloin and smoked turkey. The Sirloin was perfectly cooked with flesh in pink. The meat was juicy and flavoursome, while the texture is extremely tender. It was gorgeously done.Aside the appetizers, hot dishes such as beef curry and rice, Belgium blue mussels in cream sauce, baked lobster and shrimp with deep cheese sauce etc. were also served. The blue messels was scrumptious and chewy, where the cream sauce was balmy and delicious. Simply finger licking good.The A la Carte menu consists of assorted Sashimi, Tempura and Robatayaki. We ordered some salmon mackerel for tasting. The salmon was fresh and delectable, while macherel was a little tough.The fritter coat of the tempura was very thin, but it was just not crunchy enough. The prawn was light and appetising. Though my favourite was tempura pumkin slice (I know I am nut about pumpkin) The thin fritter coating was a little crisp on the edges, the the pumpkin inside was mushy and it just melts in your mouth. It was so good! We order wagyu and cod robatayaki. I think cod was the best because it was full of fish oil. It would be even better if the skin is not burnt so I can have a taste on the crispy fish skin! Wagyu was tender and moist but the buttery, meaty taste was lacking. It comes in large pieces which is actually quite filling for a girl like me.

Unexpected cool!:
This dinner is a fine dining not a buffet. Foods, service and ambiance. I love the foods very much. Oysters taste very sweet and creamy. The size is so small that a lady like me can eat one and half dozen. You don’t believe the oyster is so fresh that you can have in a buffet. Everything I tried is good and delicious. Foie gras, Australian wagyu and fish. They are reliable and highly recommended; cos I repeated my order twice
I found a waitress so nice that when I was so anxious why my order came late, she kept me calm down. Otherwise, it would spoil out my whole dinner.
It’s quite enjoyable that we’re eating in cozy restaurant.
Right Time, Right Food, Right Price, Right Service!

We were prepared for a big birthday meal
$400 任 fine dining!
The mussels were great
Sufficient range of appetizers
The soup was not that special
The salad with mango and avacado was terrific, very refreshing
The liver, angel hair and ravioli were quite good
The best meat would be the ribeye steak
Fruits were sweet, but desserts were rather of a disappointment-nothing to recommend really.
But in general, very enjoyable and worth the cost

It's a dinner celebration that had been postponed for long, and even the birthday girl couldn't remember it. I just kinda made our dinner gathering to celebrate the belated birthday.

They serve semi buffet at this restaurant for dinner, and on the night we visited, there were three different main courses from which to be chosen. I don't remember the exact menu of the night but they did offer grilled steak/tenderloin, cod fish and risotto (not sure about the last option). The steak was cooked to medium, exactly what I ordered. Unfortunately, the texture was a bit rough and it's due to the quality of the meat, something that the chef couldn't really do much about it. I would give a high mark in terms of control the cooking time though.

The robatayaki offered chicken gizzard, wings, squid, lobster, minced chicken, eggplant, zucchini etc. Well, you can't expect you'd get something close to a speciality restaurant serving just robatayaki but I would say it's average to above average. The lobster is the best pick and you would probably skip the eggplant.

Going back to the buffet, salad bar offered a wide variety of veggies and they were all fresh and crisp. They even had beetroot, something I rarely see in buffet even though it was only from a tin. The grilled veggie with pesto was just okay and my university's cafeteria in Canada offered same stuff in a much better quality.

For the seafood, they got only 1 type of oysters from the States, and although they were fresh, they also had lots of shell in it. Poor technique! They also have shrimps, mussels and whelks. Only tried the whelks for these three categories and they are of the good quality.

It's a good place to relax and talk to friends as you get a big table with good privacy.

i would never recommend this place!
i went in, the waiter asked me what i would like to drink and i asked for a mojito....just how hard is that....he said they don't make it bluntly! come on! u have a bar downstairs for goodness sake. he could have easily gone down to get it but apparantly he is too good for that.

Then i ordered the veg soup....that was ok....nothing surprising....i don;t see why i have to pay 78 dollars for a bowl of veg soup that has nothing special about it. My company ordered ceaser salad which looked like washed veg on a place accompany by a bowl of salad dressing. i have been to a lot of fancy restaurant and never have i had to put in my own dressing.

Then i order the salmon which was ok but the sause was really bad and it did not match the taste of the fish at all! but then without the dress the fish tasted like nothing.

i had the cold souffle....this was just BAD....what is a cold souffle you ask? well it is a frozen orange shell with some sort of orange ice cream like substance inside.....it is not the best tasting and i would take the hot one over this cold one any day

Then lastly i noticed there was some sort of a salad bar so i asked the waiter about it who informed me i could've order it for 120.....well then WHY ON EARTH would you not tell me this when i was ordering? but he didn't seem at all sorry about forgettting to tell me about it.

overall the food quality and the service was appalling! i would never go back there again nor will i suggest anyone going there! if u were able to afford dinner at this price please take the train and head to festival walk where they have simple life and Agnes b. But around the same price as this place but the food are much better and much more innovative. And the most important thing, you will not have to take the snotty attitude of the so-called waiter who obviously is too good for us!

This restaurant has just been re-opened after some renovation work at the City Garden and it looks as though it is going to be a real "hit" in the Shatin area Tried their Sunday Brunch today. At $168 per person, my wife and I think it is a real bargain, coz virtually everything, from the appetitzers to desert, were simply great ! For appetitizers, we liked the parma ham and air-dried beef the most, while the vegetable salad was really fresh The mushroom soup (creamy and yummy) and bread (fresh baked) were also very nice. We also tried the Japanese skewers (squid mouth parts, chicken wings, fish cake etc etc) which were also ok, similar in standard to the usual things you get from Japanese restaurants. And then there were the hot dishes - total of 8-9 choices at least, all of which were quite tasty. In particular, the grilled sea bass, cod, and the lamb steak were very impressive indeed - just like those stuff you get from a standard dinner ! Other stuff like sirloin steak, grilled chicken and lasagne were also nice. They also offered freshly prepared pasta - I tried the ravioli with tomato sauce which was very good We finished off with the deserts and coffee and ended up really stuffed. Service was impeccable - similar to what you would expect from a top-notch hotel restaurant. Ambience was quiet and relaxing. I must say this is a nice surprise for us living at Shatin, we will definitely come back to try a la carte later !