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2019-07-18
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Summary: Meat-lovers rejoice! Top grade meat served in a pleasant if not exactly comfortable setting at reasonable prices. Most of the menu is standard steakhouse fare, but the porkchops are amazing. Not a giant recommendation, but still worth a try.Big caveat: we didn’t try the steak. I don’t eat much beef anymore, so it’s not on me, but my friends inexplicably chose burgers and a porkchop over the steaks. So take this with a grain of salt.On the same street as Brut in SYP, Quartermaster share
Big caveat: we didn’t try the steak. I don’t eat much beef anymore, so it’s not on me, but my friends inexplicably chose burgers and a porkchop over the steaks. So take this with a grain of salt.
On the same street as Brut in SYP, Quartermaster shares a space with Blade and Bones, its butcher. Obviously all the meat is straight from B&B's coolers, and QM staff go across whenever a steak or porkchop is ordered. As such, the restaurant itself is tiny – I think it fits 16 people uncomfortably, and it’s snug even so. It's a very casual setting, with the food served on wooden serving boards and such it's more like Big Bite by HKU, than a classic steak place. The corkage is expensive ($250 a bottle), but they have a strange deal where if you bring your own wine and spend over HKD 1000, you’ll get 10% off the entire bill. Drinks otherwise are not unreasonable for a SYP restaurant at $60-80 for a beer or glass of house wine. Service is great though, and they tried their best to get us a comfortable seat that avoided the leaky ACs on the ceiling. By the time this review is written though, they’ll have undergone some minor renovations so hopefully that will be dealt with.
This is what we had for food:
Pork Belly Bites
Not much marinade or seasoning, so these rely on their inherent porkiness. Unfortunately, they were overcooked, so the pork was dry and a bit too firm, but it’s still 50% fat, so they were tasty enough with a squeeze of lemon and the special mayo. Nothing amazing but they were like $80 so a fine appetizer.Side salad with adorable mini bottle of oil and vinegar (hope it’s reused!!)
Tastes exactly as it looksCrispy Chicken Peri-Peri Burger
Nicely fried, but I didn’t get a lot of peri-peri flavour. Still good.Cheeseburger
Heard it was goodMixed Sausage platter
Very interesting mix of homemade sausages, which include Chorizo, Cumberland and two others I don’t remember. While they’re as flavour-packed as typical sausages, when you bite into them, they kind of fall apart, not holding together like typical commercial ones. I assume there are fewer binding fillers, which makes you question how much more crap (besides the standard questionable sausage meat) is in store-bought ones… Worth trying I think.Pork chop
Unusually at QM, the pork chops are the same price or more as the beef– this is the cheaper one (not the Mangalitza), but it was still phenomenal. Juicy and flavourful in a way I’d never seen in a standard grilled chop – each bite is just packed with Maillard and umami. This is a porkchop to define porkchops. Simply delicious and a must-try if you like pork.Overall: QM is as no-frills as it gets. Some interesting dishes on the menu, but barebones atmosphere and presentation. It’s reasonably priced – we paid 360 p.p. for 4 of us, with 2-3 drinks each, though with just that one premium cut (the porkchop), and we weren't really full. Expect at least double that for a full steak meal, which isn't a terrible deal for great meat. Don’t bother going if you’re expecting fine dining or even a classic steakhouse. Recommended for a guys/girls night where you just wanna eat giant slabs of meat and drink. Try those porkchops!
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