接女友收工後，經過這間葡國咖啡店，下午茶時段，葡撻加杯 Espresso 只需 $16，不設加一，反正腳也有點累，就入去歎杯啡休息一下。門面及內部裝修都幾講究的，店子小小，人多就會變得嘈吵，不知何解用上偏紅色的燈光，感覺並不舒服。

二人各自點了下午茶餐，先來的是我的 Espresso，自問不太懂得咖啡之道，只好先聞聞其咖啡香，輕輕的並不突出，然後下三分一包白糖，呷一小口，帶點苦澀，但沒有想像中的重，也比想像中順喉，只可惜期待的甘香一直也沒有出來。這時候侍應送來葡撻，來得剛好，可以一口苦，一口甜，交叉相替，十分享受那種互相抗衡的味道。葡撻的餅皮做得薄身，卻不脆不熱，以火鎗略燒過的蛋芯更是甜味滿瀉，水準略遜。

女友點了Cappuccino，需要加錢補回差價，質素卻沒有保証，先是這裡的拉花，楓葉圖案不但偏向一邊，更崩了一角，一點也不專業，泡沫咖啡上並沒有灑上可可粉，奶味重，奶泡不多不密，口感相當粗糙，這跟唔食都知唔好食兄點的明顯不同，難道這杯只是普通的 Latte 嗎？飲落咖啡仍舊是不甘不香，不敢肯定這是否葡國咖啡的特色，我自己就不太喜歡了。

唯一令我有好感的，是店員積極的服務態度，主動送上暖水凍水各一杯，用以清清口腔，讓咖啡味道來得更直接，另外又問我覺得 Espresso 如何，表示可幫我調較濃郁一點，相當貼心。有別一般咖啡店，此店也有晚市供應，價錢不貴，有機會或會再來試試，但不會對其咖啡有太高的期望了。

A new Portuguese style cafe and bistro in one, called Delta Cafe was opened in Causeway Bay. I have a lunch last Sunday.

As it is Portuguese style cafe, so i have tried portuguese chicken and spring roll , served with a cup of mochaccino. The taste of the chicken was okay and the spring roll was not greasy. I like the setting of the food. However, the taste of mochaccino was under expected.

The environment of the cafe is good for relaxing and reading. The waiters were good manner and polite, even I asked many questions about the menue.

18-10-2009

知道呢度係堅拿道天橋旁 Caffe Kenon (http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2017446) 的姊妹店, 睇了食友 Babedolphin 的飲評又對呢度的 caffe latte 好有興趣, 呢日趁等朋友之際嚟試試.

喺 menu 只見 "iced caffe latte 凍鮮奶咖啡" 及 "latte macchiato 鮮奶咖啡", 唯有問哥哥「有無熱嘅 caffe latte」, 哥哥又話「有」, 就要一杯試試, 但最後來的, 竟然係 latte macchiato ($24) 一杯 沒好氣, 時間又唔多, 是但啦照飲吧. 先「舔」啖 espresso, 極苦極澀, 跟住勁酸, 打晒冷震 將佢倒入奶內, 再落點糖 (供應的係白糖, 非 brown sugar...) 飲, 當然易入口得多, 但不甘不醇, 飲落心裡只有一個「悶」字, 唔喜歡. 點解 Caffe Kenon 的同類出品好飲咁多嘅, 係咖啡豆問題定咖啡師問題?

另奉上一塊店方出的 (?) biscuit with cinnamon, 脆卜卜, cinnamon 味點到即止, 幾討好.

裝修風格就同 Caffe Kenon 近乎倒模, 不過呢邊 d 檯檯椅椅高度較「平易近人」, 坐吓 hea 吓感覺都不錯的.

$24 埋單, 下次都係返天橋底吧.

This cafe is a newly opened Portuguese style cafe and bistro in one, called Delta Cafe! It serves a DELTA brand of coffee, a highly popular coffee in its homeland and also can be found in certain Macanese restaurants and bars! Upon arrival, I was greeted by a familiar face and after a few lines of exchange we realised we've met each other at a close-by Coffee Shop before!

What surprised me that night, was how competent the barista here is.... Usually quite friendly with a big hearty smile and always catering for customers' requests, strangely enough I've never tried Vincent's coffees in the other shop he worked in. He normally only involves in the role of taking money from my wallets haha, but in reality he is very knowledgeable and makes top quality coffees. I'm therefore happy to see him working on the machine here!

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CAFFE LATTE -
The imported Portuguese Coffee Beans were grinded-to-order rather than released from a hopper filled with unfresh pre-grinds! GOOD! Perhaps this contributed to my very aromatic drink when it arrived The smell was quite Portuguese or Spanish, reminding me of used cow hide boots. The Ttaste meanwhile backed it up with a slightly meaty savouriness and hay, it really is quite unique. In the end and quite unusually, I added some brown sugar and the drink became really alive even more! EXCELLENT! (Note: Its lightly acidic in the background, but acceptable for me!)


ESPRESSO -
This, similar to the Caffe Latte was quite aromatic, but unusually not in the crema but within the actual drink. The well extracted shot is quite commercialised in a sense YET quite impressive in that its retains a 3rd world country profile in the background. A nice representional Portugues blend, with a largish 'body'. The Barista definitely surpassed all expectations with the Espresso shot in terms of getting all tiny details correctly into the ideal window (long story...), but unfortunately the shot still turned out slightly abnormally acidic for pleasant drinking. Since Vincent did everything right, I can only speculate by isolating other variables that the Machine's Water Temp is set at least 2.5 to 3.5 degrees too low from what it should be according to what I feel of the blend's characteristics. Some of the beans in the blend seem quite acidic in nature.

Unfortunately changing the machine settings for that purpose might throw spanners into the works in terms of disrupting the Milk-Based drinks performance!

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The Cafe also serves many types of Portuguese Food and hopefully I get to try them soon! Pretty good coffees and unlike its similarly designed sister shop Caffe Kenon Cafe closeby, Delta Cafe is providing a Portuguese rather than a Southern Italian coffee experience. They use a WEGA Electronic Semi-Automatic machine instead of Hand Lever Machine however.

CAFFE LATTE: '5'
ESPRESSO: Too acidic to rate this time, but with high potential.

我不愛浦吧，浦東浦西，但就是愛浦咖啡店，吃過了一頓午飯，雖然在之前已經喝過了一杯咖啡，但竟然走着走着，被我看到有間新咖啡店，當然也要入來試一試。

本來還以為是意國來的咖啡，但原來這個品牌是從葡萄牙來的，在葡萄牙有開餐廳有酒店，在香港也是首間咖啡店，又一於看看味道好不好呢！

要試它的質素，也真的要至少喝兩杯，縱使今天只是一人行，但也照喝兩杯，一於點一杯Ristretto、一杯Cappuccino。

也不知為何要等上十多分鐘，才有得喝，可能Barista要忙廚房的工作吧，此處的食物，一個午餐連飲品，也只不過是四十多元，怪不得吃飯的人多過喝咖啡的人了。

先來的是Ristretto，面頭的Crema其少，跟普通的即磨咖啡沒兩樣呢，而味道也果然沒兩樣，這Ristretto，最多也只不過是較普通的咖啡濃一點，也是先用匙羹舀一羹，嗅一下呷一口，香味不可以說是沒有，但真的很薄，味道不甘醇而偏酸，酸起來又沒有漿果香，更不要談什麼在口內的餘韻了，這杯Ristretto，我是喝得很不滿意。

至於Cappuccino又如果，似乎也是同出一轍，因為只不過是加些Steamed Milk及奶泡在Espresso面吧，咖啡的酸被奶化解了，喝起來是真的挺有奶香的，但咖啡味真的淡得嚐不到，而其表面的奶泡層也是過薄了吧，沒有了喝Cappuccino的精髓，而且那僅餘的泡也真的不綿密，面層的巧克力粉更是非常老求的撒上去，大家看圖，可知那些粉是一嚿嚿的，是受潮了嗎？

喝過兩杯不滿意的咖啡，但值得一提，此處的店員很有禮貌，主動問我杯咖啡好喝嗎？我答她是太淡咖啡味了，她立即說可以幫我加多份Espresso到Cappuccino中，真的是很好的服務態度，但心想既然其Ristretto都咁淡，又不是太香，加多杯也是徒然，所以也婉轉的拒絕了及謝過她的好意，所以今次這個喊臉，也真的是掙扎了一會才給的，但也希望店家可以改善一下咖啡的質素吧。