7/10 plates emptied!My favorite happy hour place in Wan Chai, the night can start with your favorite beer – Stella? Hoegaarden? Let’s go for something less ordinary? You will be amazed by the BEER Bible they have at Frites which offers all premium and local brands from Belgium. I often come for their mussels and happy hour and when I’m in the mood – I would just randomly choose a brand from their “Bible” as a part of food/alcohol exploration! Beer time! Stella was good as usual, one of everyone’
My favorite happy hour place in Wan Chai, the night can start with your favorite beer – Stella? Hoegaarden? Let’s go for something less ordinary? You will be amazed by the BEER Bible they have at Frites which offers all premium and local brands from Belgium. I often come for their mussels and happy hour and when I’m in the mood – I would just randomly choose a brand from their “Bible” as a part of food/alcohol exploration! Beer time! Stella was good as usual, one of everyone’s all-time favorite, this came with the restaurant week dinner menu set which was HKD 348 per person.
Then we went for the unordinary LUCIFER BEER from Belgium – outstanding fruit blend and aroma with a mild sweetness & bitterness of malt syrup taste to it. It sounds devilish yet it would be great drink if you are looking for something deeper than Stella.
STEAK TARTARE - With all the trimmings and grilled baguette The egg yolk served with the steak tartare made the whole sauce really creamy and flavorful, diced herbs, onions were added so the flavor was rich. I had to eat it with the nicely grilled baguette to tone down the overall saltiness but overall not bad! 這個Steak tartare調味醃得不錯，有食得出的香草香氣和洋蔥粒。加上一隻生雞蛋黃，令口感特別滑與「杰」身。雖然這碟頭盤吃上口濃味了點，但送上烤過的百吉包多士與隨碟的生菜就剛剛好了。
FRITES HOUSE MUSSELS - Diced tomato, garlic, onion, light cream and fresh chives Frites mussels are my ALL-TIME FAVOURITE! The mussels are often fresh and medium-big in size combined with the creamy & milky sauce of tomato, onion, cream and chives, my case is closed. I have yet to try the rest of the flavors like pesto and laksa but I know I will always just come back for their mussels which you can enjoy with their flagship frites! Frites are medium-size cut, freshly fried and the potatoes were cooked till it’s fluffy and soft. As the ultimate potato fan, I would rate their frites here 9 out of 10! Just one point for its portions could be bigger!
750 GRAM ROASTED PORK KNUCKLE - Served with caramelised roasted vegetables Pork Knuckle smelled so good to prove that it is nicely roasted with all the big chunks of onions, potatoes, carrots and zucchini. The meat was tender, could be juicier and the roasted skin could be crispier, it was probably roasted with a relatively lower temperature to ensure the pork was cooked thoroughly yet didn’t add the crispier crunch to it. 大大份燒豬膝切件上碟，伴著烤得香香的薯仔粒，紅蘿蔔，紅洋蔥與翠玉瓜。略嫌外皮烤得不夠脆，肉一點乾身，但整體還是好味的。 It is debatable as to whether this is really authentic Belgium food but at least the food quality was decent and reasonably priced. The Wan Chai branch has an outdoor area which will be great for autumn weather as you can just enjoy your mussels, frites, with a bottle of premium brewed Belgium beer. 係唔係正宗比利時啤酒就唔知，不夠哩到既比利時啤酒就真係無得輸，價值大眾化又多選擇。你係灣仔返工既話，又點可以唔過去Frites Belgium on Tap的戶外區到吹下海風，嘆返杯啤酒呢？
Finished my job at the HKCEC, then went here for a lunch. Less than a minute i decided to have a mussel pot 1kg for myself! As usual, I come here just for the mussels. However still have jobs in the afternoon so i didnt order a beer this time, what a pity. The pot came after 10mins. The house mussel was as good as usual. They were a little bigger than my last visit in March. Is it because of the season? The soup this time was thicker too, which is great for dipping my fries! Remember las
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Finished my job at the HKCEC, then went here for a lunch.
Less than a minute i decided to have a mussel pot 1kg for myself! As usual, I come here just for the mussels. However still have jobs in the afternoon so i didnt order a beer this time, what a pity.
The pot came after 10mins. The house mussel was as good as usual. They were a little bigger than my last visit in March. Is it because of the season? The soup this time was thicker too, which is great for dipping my fries! Remember last time was too watery and i was a little disappointed by it.
Not many people today since it was a little late for lunch hour already, 2.30pm, so its not as noisy as the night time.
However the staff were far too relax and left the customers unattended. I asked for the drink menu but the waiter looked "???" then went away. Wanted the bill and raised my hands but nobody realized until more than minutes. Signed the bill but the waiter looked not too sure which receipt should return to me or he should take every pieces away.....
Love the mussels and the quiet time here (which feel so different to all my past visits!) but please, staff, wake up!
Had dinner at this place and the portions were huge.Ordered mussels, tartare and the pork knuckle.★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★Salmon tartare:The salmon tartare had a really creamy taste and it was also quite fishy.It tasted much better when it was eaten with the cracker beside it.Surprisingly the cracker is a local cracker by Four Seas called the Crispy prawn cracker which is the one in the orange packet!★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★◎ⓢⓤⓟⓔⓡⓢⓤⓟⓔⓡⓖⓘⓡⓛ◎Price: $1xxService: OKService charge: 10%Yummy factor: okPortion s
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Had dinner at this place and the portions were huge.
The salmon tartare had a really creamy taste and it was also quite fishy. It tasted much better when it was eaten with the cracker beside it. Surprisingly the cracker is a local cracker by Four Seas called the Crispy prawn cracker which is the one in the orange packet! ★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★ ◎ⓢⓤⓟⓔⓡⓢⓤⓟⓔⓡⓖⓘⓡⓛ◎ Price: $1xx Service: OK Service charge: 10% Yummy factor: ok Portion sizes: big Noise levels: Noisy Glass of water provided: yes English Menu: Yes Air Conditioning: Yes ◎ⓢⓤⓟⓔⓡⓢⓤⓟⓔⓡⓖⓘⓡⓛ◎
好好feel，出面擺左D位，夜晚黎飲杯野傾下計都幾relaxing。入面都唔錯，佈置得好有情調。必食既mussels，唔錯，青口鮮甜，不過個人覺得個sauce可以濃D多D。好大份 fish ＆chips都咁出色。魚一D雪藏味都冇，唔會一切就散，好好食。薯條好新鮮，又唔油膩食比利時菜叫risotto？帶子煎得好香稍脆，芝士味極香濃，濕度剛好 美中不足係飯粒稔左D，硬返少少就perfect啦。店員推介sea bream，冇預期咁好食，魚肉少少嚡。青豆連埋sauce好好食。雞肉幾嫩，個sauce好好味，襯薯仔一流。食物質素唔錯，環境又好，服務都唔錯，好有耐性介紹菜式同等我地決定，可以再encore！
I absolutely adore mussels and fresh ones are hard to come by, I'm not a fan of fresh-frozen ones, they just don't taste the same.Frites House Mussels. We tried the 1/2Kg pot. Very tasty and loved it! Came with fries and a slab of bread to dunk into the sauce which was great.Bitterballen - Having grown up in Holland, this to me was NOT bitterballen, or at least not Dutch ones. It was the right shape (round balls) with breadcrumbs, but the filling was faaaaaaaaar from what it should be, a thick r
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I absolutely adore mussels and fresh ones are hard to come by, I'm not a fan of fresh-frozen ones, they just don't taste the same. Frites House Mussels. We tried the 1/2Kg pot. Very tasty and loved it! Came with fries and a slab of bread to dunk into the sauce which was great. Bitterballen - Having grown up in Holland, this to me was NOT bitterballen, or at least not Dutch ones. It was the right shape (round balls) with breadcrumbs, but the filling was faaaaaaaaar from what it should be, a thick ragout/gravy filling. Instead it was full of mince and dry. Don't get me wrong, it tasted alright, but not Bitterballen and @$65 for 5 balls...nah.. my gf liked it, if any consolation. Steak Tartar - Big portion, quite an acidic mixture, but it was ok, worth a try. Pork Knuckle - Geez... this thing was humongous! Juicy, super crispy skin, meaty, gelatinous, the flavour and juices was soaked up by the veggies they were baked in, really good! Atmosphere wasn't too bad - dimmed lights, sports on the big screen. Had to share a table though (even with reservation). Service was far from impressive. Feels like they are just there to do a job, plonk the food on your table and that's it kind of attitude, no sense of friendliness from 3 different waitresses, except for one tall South Asian guy. When we left, even though the receptionist was at her seat, didn't even say goodbye, even after I said it to her. Too busy counting cash it seemed.
我和友人都點了Three-course Express Lunch (HK$118起)，可選餐湯或沙律，我選了Chicken Caesar Salad，嘩，實在非常美味，Parmesan Cheese薄片+鬆脆麵包粒 +新鮮Lettuce+脆脆煙肉+絕不會太乾的超美味雞肉，還有超美味的Classic Caesar Dressing，吃得我非常滋味，瞬間清碟!
Frites restaurant at Wanchai is the latest addition to the family, paying homage to authentic Belgian style with beers poured in the age-old traditional way. With a well-rounded selection of delights to suit palate of all levels, Frites promises haute cuisine sticking to time-honoured traditions in Belgium.Due to limited space, I was unable to upload all photos (including close-ups) of the food tried, so if you wish to view more pictures, feel free to visit us at our site.Chicken salad with wate
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Frites restaurant at Wanchai is the latest addition to the family, paying homage to authentic Belgian style with beers poured in the age-old traditional way. With a well-rounded selection of delights to suit palate of all levels, Frites promises haute cuisine sticking to time-honoured traditions in Belgium.
Due to limited space, I was unable to upload all photos (including close-ups) of the food tried, so if you wish to view more pictures, feel free to visit us at our site.
Chicken salad with watermelon (part of express lunch set)
This was a perfect appetizer to kickstart one's lunch. Robust with flavours from the sweet and crunchy watermelon, it complemented the soft and tender chicken breast slices. The accompanying sauce tasted of tamarind, which infused an appropriate amount of acidity to the dish. Coupled with some balsamic vinegar sauce, it rounded up the entrée perfectly, with just the right balance in flavours and texture.
This was a rich onion and leek soup, with croutons and melted gruyere. It was a dish with strong, dominating flavour to begin with owed to the pungent aroma of the onions. This was enhanced by the melted gruyere cheese, giving the soup a rich and creamy taste to savour. Depending on the individual, it might be too strong an entrée to awaken the taste buds, but if you are in the mood for something savoury, this would certainly fit the bill.
This pot of mussels made me reminisced the finest pot of mussels tried by the coast in Wales earlier this summer. It came served with a supplementary empty bowl for the purpose of containing the empty shells. It was largely similar, with diced tomatoes, garlic, onions, light cream and fresh chives, allowing the mussels to give off the natural sweetness. The light cream sauce which formed the base for this dish was luscious and milky, making it a perfect dip for the toasted slices. The sauce was enough to delight our palate, stopping just shy of satiating our appetite with its creaminess.
It was hard to stop reaching out for the second and subsequently third mussel after trying the first. My concern was the inconsistency in the sizes of the mussels. For any forms of fine dining, consistency is key, and that element was left exposed in this dish.
This was another tantalising appetizer, with seared tuna, olives, anchovies, runner beans, baby potatoes, lettuce and sliced boiled eggs. The tuna was cooked to sheer perfection, with a seared layer on the surface yet maintaining a pinkish rawness in the mid-section of the meat. The dressing was rich with cream being the underlying sauce. There was a lot going on in terms of flavours and textures with each mouthful, coming from the crisp texture of the lettuce, the tenderness of the seared tuna and crunchiness of the beans. It might look like a simple salad, but the fine cooking and attentive balancing of textures made it not too pedestrian.
Schnitzel is actually a breaded cutlet dish, made with boneless meat and thinned out with a hammer and subsequently coated in bread crumbs and deep fried. This was a crumbed pork loin, fried to golden brown crispy, accompanied with a portion of 'frites' and a crispy apple slaw. The one flaw with most deep fried dishes was that the meat underneath the layer of breadcrumbs coating tended to be too dry and stiff. This was unfortunately the case. As the meat was flattened out to a really thin layer, the increased surface area allowed the meat to be cooked readily. With the exterior coating carrying a golden brown crisp, it would be inevitable that the meat was slightly overcooked.
The crisp batter was excellent and crunched with each mouthful, which went well with the apple slaw, which tasted fresh crisp. The chef had attempted to sprinkle salt crystals onto the meat, perhaps to retain some of the much desired moisture in the cutlet, though it was scarcely successful.
This was a grilled prime rib, served with hand cut steak 'frites' and completed with some greens and truffle mushroom compote butter. While I must admit that I did not personally try this dish, opinions were henceforth that of my friend's. There was enough moisture left in the grilled steak to give it a succulent bite, partly owed to the juicy fats from the red meat itself. It was served medium rare and was indeed how it should have been. The truffle mushroom compote butter was complimentary to enhance the flavours of the juicy meat. It was what it suggested, a rich and sinful indulgence and when melted on the warm steak, it was almost divine. The perfect testament was perhaps the emptying of the plate.
Verdict: 7.5/10
Spinach balls in curry, served with basmati rice (part of express lunch set)
The curry was mild and nowhere close to being what I would regard as spicy. In fact, it carried a tinge of mild sweetness in the aftertaste, but what made it appealing was the rich and creamy taste. The vegetarian spinach balls were packed dense, and was certainly full of nutrients. This was a relatively heavy dish given it being vegetarian, but certainly suited my palate and those at the table.
Verdict: 7.5/10
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With the choice of either indoor or outdoor seating, it bore an uncanny resemblance to the European pubs. In general, the customer service was excellent and attentive to our requests. The food was certainly above average and would be close to the haute cuisine it promised to serve. One might perhaps experience better ambience during the evenings or perhaps when it was not a rushed lunch!
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餐廳位於灣景中心平台Brim，可遠遠望到海景，景觀十分開揚，置身其中，竟帶點點歐陸情懷。
主菜有半隻烤雞，皮不特別脆，還好肉嫩汁豐，配菜有青蘋果沙律、檸檬薯角，襯上混入蒜粒及開心果的沙律醬，與烤雞融合起來味道溫和，又不會太肥膩，不錯。
甜品是Strawberry Trifle，由冧酒海綿蛋糕、雲呢拿奶凍層層構成，綴以士多啤梨，滲出陣陣酒香，喝完咖啡仍是醉人。
兩大件炸鰨魚柳、「堆積如山」的薯條、沙律、薄荷青豆茸、他他醬等全部罝於板上，大堆頭的Fish & Frites$188單是賣相已夠睇頭！炸魚柳鮮嫩脆口，完全去除小人對雪藏貨之恐懼；沙律的油醋汁味道很強烈；薯條食味一般，薯味不怎麼濃，只是一味夠多，結果我倆到最後也未能將之徹底消滅！
超級飽足的一餐，不過全單連加一接近四百元，還是覺得這一餐很昂！
