I have been coming to this place since it was a little hole in the wall on O'Brien Road in 2000 or 2001. This could be one of the first places in Hong Kong where they roast their own coffee, the New Zealand owner would cook up such a storm that the extractor fan upstairs would suck out the coffee smoke out onto the street - I am amazed the fire alarm has never gone off lol. Some of the barristas have been here there and everywhere, they used to have some Nepalese ladies who were really nice and shared some of their food with me and even bought me souvenirs when they went back home. The whole in the wall was truly a home away from home for me then. What remain of them is the tall Chinese guy with black-rimmed glasses, he's pretty ok with the latte art and is a pretty cool dude. I hardly have lattes these days so I haven't seen that here for a while. Today they seem to be having a caffe art class upstairs. Personally I think although latte art is fun, it's nothing to be taken that seriously.

Being a regular, I am very familiar with the food in this place, especially the sweets. I used to like their lemon cheese cake, but it seems the freindly filippina head chef (she always wears a plain white shower cap ) hardly makes them anymore, so these days I just have to make do with the ok New York cheese cake. Their flourless chocolate cake is not too bad either, but by far the best sweet here is the signature banoffie pie that I only discovered around 2 years ago. The cream is light and fluffy, and the filling has just the right amount of banana slices, dulce de leche and a solid buttery biscuit base. I didn't know that the banoffie is an English invention; because of Elvis Presley's penchant for it, I've always thought that it's American. Makes me look at English food in a slightly different light now

Today I had the house brew, a Mocha Java, just a plain black coffee as it is de rigeur for me these days. I tried the apple crumble for the first time, it's a huge pie that measures around 6 inches in diameter, with the right amount of apple, raisins, and cinnamon. At first the crumble looked a bit too lumpy and dry, but in fact it was quite nice and crunchy, it made the guilt trip less painful because you felt that the proportion of butter was much less in this one, so that there was almost no butter taste detectable. Besides, I did my 40-minute of cardio this morning, so I well deserve a bit of a sweet treat. The thing was so big that it took me a whole hour to nurse it down

They also have Bolaven beans here that is fair trade from Laos I think. I've had a taste and it was quite a "calm and soothing bean, if I remember correctly. The colour of the package is that ubiquitous and supposedly tasteful Tiffany baby blue - not sure if it's s apt for coffee bean though.

Before I forget, their cinnamon roll is also quite ok, soft and cinnamony, and definitely not much of a guilt trip. They are also selling Californian chips now, I really like the chipotle flavour. They were selling in Park n' Shop and Great before but I don't think they are being stocked anymore. I know where to get my fix now

同事去灣仔見客又想我陪她食沙律,我們立刻搭車去食,還趕得切吃下午茶.所以我們叫了一份下午茶餐$39,下午茶可以選兩款自選沙律再加一杯咖啡.由於食完之後覺得沙律不錯,散了青菜芝士南瓜沙律,100g$32.

兩款自選沙律選了酸青瓜和青菜,這個汁是似泰式酸汁,酸酸味味好開胃,越食越想食,好味到停唔到口.至於蝴蝶粉無乜特別唔試也不是損失.咖啡香濃幼滑,每次去到必飲.青 菜之士南瓜沙律,青菜新鮮食落仲索索聲加上洗得好乾淨好放心吃.南瓜煮得硬了少少,如果煮得淋一點更好,芝士鹹鹹地又夠芝士味,好好味道

服務麻麻唔算好好,無收加一無服務都預了

環境十分好,可以舒舒服服地嘆下午茶人生一樂也

周末的早上到了灣仔，也和女友來吃個早餐，嘆杯咖啡，在香港的咖啡店也真的還有很多未試，今天選擇了這兒。

入了店子，先周圍打量一下，發覺又真的很是正宗，有不同種類的咖啡豆及標準咖啡店的Setup，另外吃的好像比較弱，Bagel、沙律及三文治看起來凍冰冰的，今天想吃點熱的，所以選擇了一份即煮的西式早餐，荷包蛋、煙肉及多士，簡簡單單的，這份早餐包了一杯咖啡，所以選了在餐牌中較貴的Cappuccino，另外淨點了一杯Double Ristretto，兩個人分吃，留點力吃下一餐。

先吃的是那份早餐，荷包蛋看蛋白勁多皺紋，吃上口一點也不嫩滑，是煎得過老了一點，幸好蛋黃仍是流心的，吃起來有點蛋黃汁的香，但蛋白就真的麻麻地了；煙肉是慷慨的有一大堆，可惜是肥美有餘，香脆不足，其熱力也不足以揮發煙肉大片脂肪的香味，豐腴度有改善空間；三樣食物之中，最為四平八穩的是多士，多士鬆軟脆口，吃起來更有點麥香，配上店家一盒果醬一盒牛油，一塊用一樣，果醬不是太有果香味，而牛油也很普通，塗了它們也只不過比白多士好吃一點罷了，增值不大。

高潮的來臨當然是兩杯咖啡了，我主打的當然是那杯Double Ristretto，Double了的size也是如常Double Shot的份量，咖啡看起來有一層頗厚的Crema，正暗自高興，也是如常的舀了一羹，用鼻子猛嗅，然後呷了一口咖啡在口腔內，咖啡的酸度瞬間從舌頭的味蕃，再傳至中樞神經至腦部，咖啡不是不香，味道亦很濃，入口也有甘醇的感覺，但由於其酸度真的挺高，而本人又很不能喝酸的咖啡，所以真的不太行，似乎自己是高興得太早了，這杯咖啡可以說是要挨完的一杯咖啡。

綜上而論，用上一杯甘醇而味濃的咖啡，縱使酸度高一點，用來沖奶系的咖啡應該會不錯，因奶鹼性中和了其酸度，果然這杯Cappuccino，真的如我所言，咖啡的味道不錯，奶味掩蓋不了咖啡味，而Cappuccino面頭奶泡上的花紋精緻，但當然不是Latte Art來的，只不過是在奶泡上放了有花紋的可可粉，而奶泡打得綿密，泡層足有半杯之厚，是一杯不錯的Cappuccino，如果要彈的，就只有稍嫌店家用的牛奶不夠奶香吧。

飲飽食醉，很是滿足，喝完吃完才記得打印了OR的優惠劵而沒有用，真的只好怪自己真的是笨豬一條。

I've been to this Cafe quite a few times already, also been and reviewed the TST outlet and went to Admiralty's outlet once.... When I read the new 陳毫's My Coffee Guide however, I felt surprised that Zambra's did not received any mention at all, despite a lot of other smaller or lesser quality cafes (some I've never even been to) were given a spot on the pages!

On a very personal matter, I DID IN THE PAST think that the default Northern Espresso coffee blend at Zambra's to taste a bit 'commercialised', almost like one of those imported commercial Italian or Singaporean coffees marketed at the larger audience... Together with Coffee Assembly's similar tasting profile, they took an approach that I could not grasp nor understand for a few months - especially considering both these are Independent Roasters! However perhaps having stayed in Hong Kong a little bit longer, I did finally realised that they've probably chosen to go down this path smartly because many people might have different associations and taste expectations in their head when the word Coffee is mentioned! So personally I might not desire their blending too much but that's unfair to say its therefore not a very good coffee - because its a subjective matter! The Coffees I have at Zambras are actually quite fresh and pleasant tasting, but everyone's different in a way!

The Wanchai store also has barista(s) who make the best free-pour or sketched Latte Arts in my opinion! Although there're many Cafes which also does this, perhaps because I do have a slight knowledge of which ideas, art or pictures are harder to perfect in real life compared to the easier or medium difficult ones - I find that it is in the most minuit details and accuracy of the poured/drawn art here, which excels over the other shops. Credit is due when its required!

In my eyes, the Latte Art here is definitely without peers locally (and I've only seen 1 other barista in HK who can do similar but he's no longer in the trade) and its easily better than what I can muster myself! The coffee making skills is definitely World Class!

真的好久好久沒有跟太座可以如此悠閒地坐着，靜靜的享受一個自製的"weekday brunch"....

現在的時間是早上十時許，大部份人仍然埋首在工作枱上，請了假休息一下的我們，就在這小cafe之內，邊用餐邊看報紙來打發時間。想起來已是好久沒有如此"hea"了....

說是真的很"hea"也是不盡然，因吃完之後便要到會展看展覽。心裡多了些牽掛，吃東西的心態自然就不是真的那麼悠閒了。叫了一份deluxe breakfast，下單後等了差不多二十分鐘後還不送來，要到了counter催促一下才能。香港人始終是香港人，生活步伐是如此的急促，就算是on vacation也是如此，有時真有些拿自己沒有辦法....

Deluxe breakfast還在準備中，就先喝杯凍檸茶來解一下渴。喝一口，茶味很淡，尤如在喝冰水一般。始終在此等cafe，各款咖啡才是正印，其餘的盡皆是小腳色也。可恨的是最近與咖啡因無緣無份，就算想點喝也是無能為力，所以喝到如此水平的iced lemon tea，亦是怪不得人的太太的鮮榨橙汁相對上當然穩陣得多，起碼是可以吃到有橙肉粒的，是蠻真材實料的，味又不算太淡....

喝着檸茶，看着報紙上的即日新聞，我的"豪華早餐"仍未送來，心裡有點火來了此時太座的tuna ciabatta反而捷足先登，那就先用這個來頂一頂肚吧。用刀將那ciabatta切開時，喀嚓聲不絕於耳，包身也是熱透的，香味亦隨之而飄來聽覺、觸覺及嗅覺有着相當享受後，跟着味覺之滿足也隨之而來 ---- 包身之鬆軟，外層之香脆，實在只用兩個字來形容便可以 : "好吃 !"。儘管餡料只是很普通的吞拿魚醬及chedder cheese，但光是吃這ciabatta，就算內裡夾的是甚麼，也會飛快的將之吃清光的，何況那吞拿魚醬的酸度亦調得很好，再加上被ciabatta的熱力影響而漸溶的芝士，這品的滋味，可想而知了....

正當那ciabatta將被全然放進我倆的胃裡之際，望穿秋水的deluxe breakfast終於隆重登場。論味道，只可說是中規中矩。炒蛋的量很多，但弄得不夠滑溜；sausage的外皮煎得不算香脆，不過肉味倒是挺濃；焗蕃茄沒有甚麼好評論的，除非用的是日本温室蕃茄又另作別論；麵包類由croissant轉為toast，本已令到等得不太耐煩的我倆更是火上加油，可幸多士焗得微燶，亦頗見脆香，無論搽上牛油抑或是菓醬，亦同樣美味；對我來說，做得最好的還是bacon，咬進口感覺是脆口得來又帶着焦香，像在吃有肉味的薯片一般，吾之摯愛也....

飽餐一頓，再坐一會，是時候出發了.....

Zambra 係一個好好 hea o既地方。不過至愛都係佢個 deluxe breakfast!!!!!

整個 set 裡面有scrambled eggs, bacon, crossiant, roasted tomato, sausage, 尤其鍾意個 bacon, 烤得好好, 少少脆口, 唔會好似 super xxxxwich 早餐個 bacon 咁, 似火腿唔似煙肉仲要油淋淋。對一個女仔黎講份量非常足, 食完真係連 lunch 都唔駛食。

再配埋杯齋啡, 實在叫人非常滿足!!!!!!!

Me and My friend have a gathering at Zambra for Birthday party. We sit upstairs in a private area, it's very nice and quiet.

My favourite is the Coffee and the art work they do, I recommend to order the Lattee or Iced Mochca!!

The Staff is nice and friendly also the dessert is good, Try the NY cheese cake or Banoffiee Pie.

Hope you will also enjoy !!

每星期六一次....盡在不言中, 可能因此對這店已聯繫了感情, 不喝一次還是心掛掛,COFFE 於全世界都很普及,要有人欣賞就一定要用心及誠意, 大家於生活中有那個人是沒有被COFFE吸引過....它已是生活中的好朋友了, 早上趕工...沒打采下喝COFFE, 朋友行街累了喝杯COFFE, 男女朋友初次聯繫喝COFFE, 於近日不少保飯碗下開日連OT喝COFFE, 在家中等待伴侶下班同時只好喝COFFE,所以COFFE 於我們人類生活中帶出下一代, 我們又怎能讓世上沒下一代, 所以好一杯好COFFE 由表面的泡沫感覺虛浮沒味,當飲深些就有甘甜的人生,應是有層次的, ZAMBRA..你做到, 真的多謝你與每一個人的內心交流大家不防於我附上的圖片找出ZAMBRA 的用心

The food's ok but the service's bad.

The staff didnt really listen what the customers said...so strange!

The coffee's really bad! Worse than instant coffee!

跟朋友來,各自要了個pasta set.

是日餐湯是potato + leek.雖然有兩塊烘得不錯的多士,但那碗湯實在很難喝.有薯仔的味道,也有大蔥的味道,但就是缺少了點甚麼,只是像potato + leek + 水 + starch.要檢討一下呢.

Pasta可以自由配搭,我選了angel hair with summer vegetables in tomato sauce.份量出乎意料地大,angel hair也算處理的不錯,雖然有點軟但還可以接受.(有點像炆米.但做angel hair做得好的店實在少之又少呀.)十分喜歡那個tomato sauce - 夠濕,但未至於氾濫(朋友的cream sauce雖然不是很稀,但有點水浸的跡象);番茄味道突出,甜酸適中,很鮮.至於蔬菜真的有很多,也煮得頗軟.這又好又不好啦.不過我喜歡比較爛一點的西蘭花,它這裏的就合我心意了.

最後是cafe latte(這個要加$10).厚厚牛奶泡泡,入口非常的滑.我不太懂喝咖啡,但喝了一口覺得很醇,不會有酸酸的after taste.很棒!

同朋友去呢間餐廳食晚飯
格局不錯 環境不錯 openrice 既評價也不錯
諗住呢一間餐廳都應該唔錯
點知... 睇埋落去你就知

我地叫左一個蛋餅, bread pudding, 兩個set dinner- 西蘭花菜湯, sesar salad, lamb burger, 肉醬天使麵, 仲有叫左三杯飲品 - mocha, hot chocolate, maxican choclate

首先個蛋餅, 個樣望落去好好味,誰知 一食落口, d蛋好乾, 感覺似有媽媽味道既番茄炒蛋, 但係整體感覺都ok , 我地都食哂呢個蛋餅

跟住bread pudding, 個pudding 口感都係dry, 一d 都唔鬆化(之前食自助餐既bread pudding 都係軟綿綿架麻), 有硬硬的感覺, 我既同事話, 雖然係食緊pudding, 但係放落口中時卻有種馬拉糕既感覺... 仲要係難食, 發唔起既馬拉糕感覺.... 講真, 真係有d似馬拉糕...

再來個西蘭花菜湯, 我個兩個朋友飲左兩啖就唔飲, 因為個湯係煮完就將d材料再放落攪拌機攪到碎哂個隻, 佢地唔鐘意個texture, 但係我就無乜所謂, 結果我飲鬼哂佢, 因為我有預感之後黎既野都唔會話太好味~

Sesar salad- 呢個係我其中一個朋友話係全場最好味既菜式之一, 因為無做任何既加工, 就咁菜葉加souce, 最raw !! (順帶一提, 我地叫左Sesar salad, 但係佢初頭係黎錯左第二隻沙律, 於是我就偷食左一舊水牛芝士後就同佢地講黎錯左, 於是佢地收番碟沙律, 轉頭就見到佢地倒番落個沙律盤度)

Lamb burger- 呢一個真係有d古怪, 睇Menu寫住Lamb burger, 但係個菜上到黎我地就問, 個漢堡包塊包皮去左邊? 結果我地見到羊肉下面有地好似提子方包既物體.... 原來佢burger 既定義係同我地burger 既意思係唔同既... 好! 唔緊要, 我地試下d羊先.... 煎到好乾, 帶少少燶味但又勁油, 真係好麻麻呀...; 個伴菜烤茄子, 怪味, 恕我地真係唔識得欣賞; 好啦, 食哂塊羊肉, 下面塊面包好似比油浸煮咁, 濕到爛哂, 點食呀, 我食左少少, 真係好難食, 有種油浸油炸鬼既feel....

肉醬天使麵- 呢一個比較好少少, 但係都唔係好得, d蕃茄肉醬似係超級市場買既一罐罐肉醬咁, 但係仲要好慳皮, 肉醬都唔係落多, 結果... 都係一個字: 乾....但又係油; 此時, 富有想像力既同事就話呢, "你地望下厨房部抽油煙機, d意粉似係個放油個兜度煮咁呀, 好大陣煙味呀...." 佢又講得無錯呀, 的確形容得好貼切...

食左咁多乾爭爭既食物, 真係好希望杯飲品可以補救番我地對佢既印象
mocha- ok la ... 有咖啡味
hot chocolate- 飲唔到有朱古力味, 我淨係飲到有奶味
maxican choclate- 個waiter 話係帶辣味既chocolate, 飲第一啖真係有辣既味道, 而且有朱古力味, 而我既富有想像力既同事又話呢, "杯野有去左中藥鋪既個陣氣味..." 飲飲下, 真係覺得有喎, 杯野仲要飲左一半之後, 無哂朱古力味, 淡如水... 真係飲唔落去...

我既標題之所以係分子料理餐廳, 係因為有好幾種食物, 我地食落口都發覺唔係個種食物既味道, 而係會令你想起另一種食物; 仲要明明係美式餐廳, 但係係餐廰內每隔一段時間都會聞到一陣小肥羊既四川辣味, 所以真係好勁, 唔係咁多餐廳做得到

Cafe 位置都幾偏僻, 找到很久才找到。後來發現在三里屯, 一落電梯便到。

Waiter 的service很好, Tea set 有自選2款salad, bread, muffin......還有pasta選擇。

我選了salad (蘋果 & 薯仔salad), 還有水牛芝士, 凱撒salad選擇。份量算多, 很飽肚, 尤其是薯仔salad, 薯仔切得幾大件, 蘋果salad的sauce有點怪, 不太喜歡, 但整體味道OK, 材料很fresh。

Drink 選了iced lemon tea, 沒有茶味, 有點酸,下次prefer cofee。

坐在2人sofa 位非常舒服, 望到街景, 有柔和英文歌播放, 英文報紙看, 坐足2小時。都幾多外國人來飲coffee, 傾計。

幾特別的Cafe, 價錢還平過Starbucks & Pacific Coffee。

一直偶聞這裏的晚餐水準很高,經過上次tea的經驗,對其出品信心也很大,相約好友來這邊一同分享.

晚上的Zambra有點烏燈黑火,另一角度看亦可說是有情調.在Counter拿過dinner menu,便走到sofa位邊坐邊研究.爽快的侍應已拿著兩杯冰水和餐具走來準備落單,但我們還沒有想好,所以最後選擇自行到Cashier落單.

事前給友人看過openrice內的食評,他早已對sole fillet動心,想也不想的做決定好.而我,則周旋在羊架和牛扒兩者之間,最後要了前者.

Appertiser
太夜已沒有餐湯,從四款沙律中選了薯仔沙律和Caesar. 薯仔連皮切割得很大一件,還配了雞蛋沙律,味道雖不太濃烈,但可避免太膩.Caesar除羅馬生菜外還有olive,水牛芝士,red & yellow pepper,最喜歡還是其酸酸的醬汁,很開胃.

Main Course
Sole fillet with pasta- 兩大條的fillet,份量大得有點不能置信. Fillet外層煎得金黃,而且很香脆,內裡卻能保持軟滑,是意料之外的味美.加點搭配的檸檬汁,更見醒神.Pasta用了angel hair,味道較淡,跟fillet很夾.

Lamb Chop - 分量大,碟子少,看似有點擠擁,一下子看不透有些甚麼.羊架七成熟,做得不賴,沒有跟配mint sauce,相反提供法式mustard,兩者也很match的.羊架肉嫩,不太羶,這價錢而言是比合格更好.件碟的薯仔焗得很乾身,蘸芥辣吃很惹味.On-side 的雜菜也不能錯過.

Angel Hair with Scallops in Pesto Sauce - 除了dinner set,還有pasta set,另一友人就點了這一款. Scallop大得有點令人驚訝,好像發漲了的.味道不太突出,而且極多油,雖則只是olive oil,但底部可見有約半吋的油滲著意粉,是特色還是錯手,不得而知.

Dessert
Bread & Butter Pudding - 只剩下一件,朋友快快手的要了.用microwave叮一叮,微熱的pudding有很重的牛油味,裡面還加了些blueberry,軟綿的pudding口感不俗,只是膩一點.

Apple Tea Cake - 本來想要Apple Crumble,但製成品有點似炸彈,而且沒有custard,亦沒有雪糕或creme,乾乾的提不起興趣,還是吃之前試過又懷念的Apple Cake.蛋糕有很重的cinamon,外型堅挺但其實很軟身,蘋果味香濃.而一片片的蘋果則置身中央,又甜又爽口,蘋果迷必食.

凍檸茶說不上不好味,只是茶味不夠,甜味略重,咖啡會較出色.

雖說是Cafe,但還是有服務的.由於住下層的關係,侍應很容易留意到我們.吃過主菜便很快走過來為我們收碟和表示上甜品和餐飲.加水速度又快又密.在沒有加一的情況下,服務比起不少餐廳優勝得多.

不知不覺已經跟你在一起三個年頭了，今年是我們第一個在香港過的Anniversary，彷彿在用地點來見證我們的成長－－－我們都已經踏進社會，不再是當初無憂無慮的學生了，本來想到紅粉佳人的，但是我太晚下班了，幸好灣仔也有很多好地方今年我們就選擇了Zambra
為了把chocolate和cheese cake試全，我們選了兩個$118 set dinner：
Tomato Soup+Bread：雖然不是creamy soup，但是也不錯，至少沒有港式羅宋湯的酸，酸度剛好，作為Appetizer是不錯的，反而包包就很好吃，因為烘得很脆，配上半溶的牛油實在很好吃！真的想追加啊！
Lamb Burger：只有小小的兩件，我要的是六成熟，可是來的是接近十成熟挺有羊羶味，我覺得還可以，不過不夠嫩，伴菜是生菜沙律，菜很多，居然有我喜歡的茄子！用的是墨西哥汁，酸酸的很醒胃，伴碟的面包被蔬菜的水浸得有點軟軟的，當然就沒有跟湯的包包那麼好吃了
sole fillet：有兩大件龍脷柳！煎得剛剛好，不錯！Garlic意粉沒有甚麼味道，感覺一般～
Cheesecake：送的Dessert是不能從cake menu中挑的，只有最standard的cheesecake和chocolate cake，cheesecake的texture夠堅實，芝士味很香，餅底是消化餅，牛油味很重，又脆，很久沒有吃過那麼純粹的cheesecake了
chocolate cake：chocolate brownies上面有chocolate sauce，上枱時是暖暖的，朱古力味夠香，好好味啊！比cheesecake更出色呢！
iced lemon tea：加了糖水還是如水般淡......
white chocolate mocha：好靚靚啊！有心心圖案，很適合今天呢！咖啡味濃，反而朱古力味就不夠，反而覺得它的coffee不算出色呢！
我們坐樓上，椅子很舒服，但是沒有開冷氣，非常悶熱，有趕客之感是是次anniversary dinner最不足之處
服務很好，有求必應，很nice呢！
結賬時見到樓下的pie和cake好漂亮呢！下次單點好了

經常說運動後2小時要禁食,否則仲肥過唔做運動,但每一次運動過後滿腦子總是美食,這次亦不例外.

這店開了好一段長時間,以前坐車總會經過,卻從未試過,原來也很受歡迎,下午4時多也不少人來鬆一鬆.

為了身形着想,只點了一個cake set. Baked Cappuccino Chessecake,首先是一層灑滿巧克力粉的whipped cream,接着是一層巧克力蛋糕,跟着就是Cappuccino cake,最後就是鬆軟的
餅底.層次很豐富,但味道較甜,也卻吃不出有太多的咖啡味,不算很特出.

加了$10要了一杯Mocha,賣相很美,用cream做了一朵花的模樣.可惜先吃蛋糕,而蛋糕又偏甜,咖啡完全喝不出甜味,分不清是本身不甜還是外在因素了.

環境不錯,這次坐在下層,看着街外風景,在忙碌的生活中,總需要騰出一點點時間去善待自己.