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Nice set lunch with salad buffet.Salad was all fresh and crispy and there was a good selection of cold cuts. Beetroot was lovely and the beef was cooked to perfection.Pasta was 'ok'. Nothing special to be honest but it tasted fine. At least it wasn't dry as is often found in Italian restaurants. I had meatballs and the wife had a simple tomato sauce. Fine but not outstanding.Beer tasted fresh through the pipes and the coffee was hot, fresh and strong.Whilst the pasta wasn't amazing, the added salad and meats made up for it and we both came away filling contentedly full - still am actually.Worth a visit. continue reading

用團購的優惠來試這間餐廳 $149 由頭盤, 主菜, 甜品, 酒, 加一都包埋的一個set dinner, 價錢還算特惠~預早兩日book台, 不過電話人一口類似印度口音, book位時真係考到我listening和推理技巧...去到埋位就有麵包和一些薄脆片小食, 不過麵包較乾硬...送湯才食得落...頭盤要了番茄湯, 友人不小心地叫了個雜菜湯...她的十分清淡, 我的番茄湯就幾香濃,唔錯~主菜點了肉醬意粉, 個人喜歡較多一點咸味的肉醬意粉, 這個咸度正好適中 意粉乾身, 加多一點肉醬汁賣相剛好, 可能當中加了香草橄欖油拌碟, 更加惹味友人的牛扖, 要了medium的程度, 吃下去還是有一點點韌, 但肉汁也很鮮美甜品試過Tiramisu和Affrogato, 以熱咖啡加一球凍雪糕在上面的Affrogato最為滋味咖啡的熱很快被雪糕冷凍了, 吃下口中咖啡淌著香味, 加上雪糕的甜, 係是次dinner的壓軸驚喜~ continue reading

朋友看上了它的salad buffer。因是公眾假期，門外只說有bunch太久沒在SOHO區附近存活，忘了那是個連雪糕店也只有英文meun要說英文的地方在雞和鴨講的情況下，本是問有沒有lunch set，但店員好像也不清楚般，最初說有，後期問同事後說沒。然後店員說有salad buffer，HKD128一位，雖加了價，但覺價位還ok便進去吃入座後，繼續雞和鴨講，得知buffer是12:00-4:00pm，所以我們這餐吃足4小時!!!! 我們一開始就點了凍檸茶，後期是有後悔太早點.......有關沙律吧........生菜放太近門口然後菜也不太ok，有些黃掉爛掉它的honey很不錯，後期我都吃蜜糖+沙律醬+沙律，這樣配味道很不錯的那Goat Cheese看著本很漂亮完整，被人吃到這樣子我的感想是Goat Cheese單吃太乏味，也想不到配什麼吃好..........那個卷卷茄子是包著Goat Cheese再香草.........很抱歉地那香草超難吃，茄子+羊奶芝士配著也不怎合我口味pama ham，此行目的。本是滿滿的，當然吃光的也不是我們.........(朋友說吃光就回本的了)還不錯吃，比yamm的質素好，可惜那天沒蜜瓜......我們懷疑是在櫃中那隻"金華火腿"切出來的 XD 然後去的那天也沒煙三文魚........好可惜那個貌似肉乾條的食物.......好咸，是pama ham包著芝士，那芝士有點像卡鄞夫芝士的味熟食.........最後的車厘茄很不錯薯仔第一口是不錯炒菌沒什麼味道炒西蘭花&椰菜花也是沒味道茄子嘛......不吃比較好......其他碰都沒碰 (樣子不好看，也不想去吃)照片中西瓜是最好吃的。brownie第一口ok，然後甜的要命杏仁批也很甜...........pizza是店員突然弄的，然後每個人派3件因為一杯飲品實在不夠，眼見有其他客人問他拿水，便也問店員拿在西餐廳拿free water是有技巧(?)，反正就是別只叫water也千萬別要bottle water(by中過招的人.......)朋友點了hot water，卻是普通的檸檬味凍水基本上這店的客人都以外國人為主除了會遇上太過熱情外國人，HKD128+10%服務費能在SOHO區hea 4小時任吃pama ham是還ok........但其他食物真的不好吃......2-3點時見多了不少人來吃，但只吃個1小時就不化算了其他食評內的生蠔、羊架也沒我看了下其他點bunch的客人只多了香檳一杯和主菜盡量把有供應的食物拍照的了，若是想去的人可以參考一下 continue reading

First I have to thank school for giving me one extra day-off, something which is much-needed in this hectic life of mine. Having no lessons at all (HURRAY!) I could enjoy great flexibility on my lunch-whereabouts. Having heard and read about the antipasti/salad bar lunch buffet, I could at last squeeze sometime to actually give it a try.Apparently Barolo had raised the price of the lunch sets by an average of +$20 as the waitress politely explained to me that the Salad Bar lunch set now costs $128 instead of $108, or $98 stated on its (apparently)outdated website. You get a salad bar buffet, pasta, dessert and tea/coffee by paying $138. This narrow difference of $10 is tempting but since we went only for the salad, we decided to give it a no-no and head for the salad bar instead.This place is actually more of a bar than a restaurant - we were allocated a bar table which was rather comfortable to sit and eat. The place was crowded with Central lunch-breakers who are mostly foreigners. They looked kinda in a rush - hurrying to return to their workplaces before the stock market opens again at 1:30? As they buzz around like bees we just looked around lazily, and I felt quite funny being surrounded by people constantly moving swiftly while I was completely in the holiday mood, wanting just to sit back and relax a bit. After a few minutes of relaxation we could at last move our asses off the comforty bar chairs and moved to inspect the salad bar spread. What we saw was indeed impressive: plates after plates of fresh salads and antipasti were laid on the long bar table.What a scene. You actually start from the right of the bar to the left were the espresso machine is: first were the soup, bread and plain salad veggies, then the cheese and the cold cuts and the grills, and last were the fruits. There were approximately 15~20 kinds of food available.Conventionally I started with the plain salads and bread: the bread basket offered at least 3 kinds of bread including french baguettes, flaxseed wholewheat buns and a sour dough. Pity that they had been dehydrated under the strong ventilation, but they actually tasted okay with the crunchy crust and soft(if you tear away the tough parts which has exposed in air for too long), and i guess they should go well with the cream of mushroom soup , which i did not bother to try. Nice salad veggies tho and there were four dressings which you could choose from, plus some really nice and crunchy croutons, cheese(is it cheddar or edam?cant tell) wedges and thin crisps which you could top your salad with, not to mention the really juicy cherry tomato which went well with the thousand island dressing. The Tomato with Mozzarella looked better than it tasted as the cheese was a bit rubbery in texture but literally tasteless. The comment applies for the goat cheese which, sadly, did not even tasted like cheese at all but resembled crumbled soap. This was really disappointing as i was expecting quite a lot from its cheese collection...anyway, theres still other antipasti which i could give my heart to. Smoked salmon was okay but tasted a little too salty, but that could be moderated by a good squeeze of lemon juice.Next I basically sampled with EVERYTHING ON ONE SINGLE PLATE!!WOHOO! luckily most were vegetables or else i would have killed myself for gorging in so much meat and fat in one single meal. Anyway, the parma ham was truly delicious - they were of the correct thickness and were not too fat nor salty; the cantaloupe was sweet and went well with the ham. Matter of fact I thought the parma ham here tasted better than what's served at Tiffin's or The Lounge@J.W. Marriott! There was the big wedges of grilled pumpkin which i treated myself generous shares as they were truly delicious. You have to pick the softer ones as they were better seasoned. They were quite buttery in texture and I just used them to 'butter' the dry bread! There were two drier mixes of chicken peas and some suspicious seed-like stuff, which i did not quite like. The Grilled mushrooms and zucchini and eggplants were nicely grilled and juicy, however; the clam salad and grilled broccoli and cauliflower was disappointing however as they were not too fresh nor tasty. Last were the fruits - the pineapple, cantaloupe and watermelon were all fresh, juicy and sweet.We ordered two English breakfast teas which came with a lovely piece of almond biscotti , which served as the most appropriate 'petite sweetness' to the salad buffet lunch.Now perhaps you will ask: wheres the oyster? I was thinking of the same question and apparently Barolo had taken away quite a lot of food from the lunch menu. Stuff like the cheese variety and some seafood items were missing. That was indeed a huge disappointment, given that they had raised the charge per head from $108 to $128. Had i been aware of the changing menu, I would not have been here for lunch - it is not very economical of me to have a salad lunch at $128+s.c.To conclude - great place and great service, the food was okay, but the choice was a bit too narrow given that the restaurant is charging people around $135 per head. Perhaps i should have tried Bistecca Italian Steak House or Bourbon instead. continue reading

went there around noon, Had a salad buffet. Don't like to pay for the water when they didn't mention is not for free HKD 55. all the food are cold ! mushroom, pumpkin, except the soup. ( salad bar ) not that many choices to me AND is not tasty should have gone to somewhere else, regret.service is okay, they try to gossip around with their own "language" which I know the topic is me. coming back to the food, my favorite is the pumpkin.the chef baked some fresh pizza m the staff walk around and serving people. good suppose to be HKD 108 per person , with the " special " water and 10 % charge . HKD 150 per person continue reading