forte  

Forte is a great place for lunch or dinner at Kwun Tong Area. Cozy environment made you feel comfortable dining here.

Staff showed me the menu on iPad, this is a good idea to save paper for printing and also they can update their menu more frequently and easily.

My family decided to go for the dinner set menu. I was impressed by the antipasti and sashimi semi-buffet as they have different varieties such as Parma ham, duck liver paste on boiled egg, Norwegian smoked salmon, mozzarella cheese with tomato, beef carpaccio, olive prawn, fresh green salad... etc. There is chef at sushi bar serving fresh sashimi. I ordered salmon, tuna and shrimp. FRESH!!!

The highlight of the bread is their homemade blue cheese bread!! Delicious👍.

Soup of the day is one of my favorites - Mushroom soup. Nice and creamy at a right temperate.

My main course is marinated cod fillet with Matsutake & Miso. Very juicy and tender. The portion is just right. My mom tried the signature dish - Australian lamb rack with coffee crust, this is also very good.

Dinner ended with desserts and Illy's coffee. Overall, very good!! Looking forward to try their new dinner set menu!!

Thanks to the communications team and Lemon Tea for inviting me to try the gourmet buffet at L’hotel elan.
The hotel is located in Kwun Tong conveniently near Ngau Tau Kok MTR station.

L'hotel elan is part of the China Chem group who have other restaurants which I wanted to try such as V-Cuisine that serves innovative dim sums.

When I got the email from the communications teams, their hotel footer was fun and stylish which really makes a difference from the standard emails.

At the hotel, there were lots of stylish elements, the check in counter is not on the ground floor but on the top floor!
It is located on the top floor because the views of Hong Kong are breathtaking, especially at night and there is a beautifully lit pool with deckchairs as well.

Though working nearby, this is the first time I tried this restaurant.
The overall dining experience was exceptionally pleasing.
A good combination of food in menu and cozy ambience to start with. Food quality was good in terms of freshness and tastiness. Service was great though it was quite full on Xmas eve.
A great place to dine overall! Will definitely be back during normal days!

Four of us had a site visit of a property nearby so the restaurant was booked for lunch.
we were greeted and seated immediately. The place was noisy but service was attentive. Bread basket was full of warm breadsticks, a pleasant surprise indeed. Little did we know that we were going to have the worst meal in a long time spending over $1000 for the four of us.
Lunch was a semi buffet style with salad bar and a a la cart main course. Three of us ordered pasta with seafood and the other Hainan chicken rice.
Salad bar choice was bear minimum with two choices of green and some cold mix of green and root vegetable. Nothing spectacular. There was a sashimi bar but we were told it was not included in the salad bar.
Next came the main course. Pasta was so over cooked which was served on a gigantic plate but with a little bowl in the middle. One can finish the pasta in three bites. It was so mushy that reminds me of the canned pasta I used to have when I was in college. On top of this mush was three pieces of sorry looking scallop which was placed under some sprout. Pasta sauce was tomato based but besides the color, nothing reminded me of this nice Italian national fruit (yes, tomato belongs to fruit group). Worst of all, pasta was served luke warm (on the cold side) YUCK..I can cook better pasta with one eye close anytime.
The chicken rice (at $228 plus $40 if thigh was requested) at $268 was so overpriced. If one can excuse the price one certainly can not excuse the poor taste. Chicken was tasteless with rice being really oily.
Dessert and coffee/tea was served there after. Dessert was one of the better dish and coffee was just average.
Overall, this is one of the worst meal in any hotel in Hong Kong for us in a long time.