Shelley's Yard

上次来这里时，店名还是Real Bread Cafe，原来不经不觉间已易了名，不过不知有否易手．记得早前看过一篇关于真正面包的文章，说现代人吃的面包大多是经漂染，打磨，人工多于一切，完全没有小麦的天然味道，和天然的面包谈不上有关系．香港人注重健康，一早已有提倡吃天然面包的声音，城中也有几间自家烘焙的小店，而这所Real Bread Cafe应该是首几间以面包为题的餐厅。 人面全非的小店依旧狭长，一路进入越觉宁静，有逃离苏豪烦扰的感觉，对每天营营役役的上班族来说，停下来吃个早餐也是解脱！早餐选择不少，但肠胃不滞事，只得来点简约的谷物生果，加提神咖啡一杯，已是美事。 店后一角放满了各种面包，有小麦的有黑麦的，有成个的有切片的，都是欧陆口味。更有甜品几款，特别吸引的lemon tart, bread pudding, pecan pie几款很养眼。 参观过面包咖啡也准备好了，这里用的是la brezza，豆是大牌子没错，不过打奶功夫可真马虎，是真的把奶打起泡就算，气孔大如洗洁清的一看就知很粗糙，幸好咖啡补救了奶的不足，味道不酸而且很丰厚，不计奶也算好喝。 之后的是homemade museli配生果，这一味是早餐常备，差别只在于谷物是否自家制。这里面包是自制了，但谷物是外来的，不太脆，加了奶更觉烟韧，口感不好。水果没甚特别，整体来说收六十多元一客很贵。 当然面包篮就好多了，一篮三四片不同的烘热多士加上牛油和果酱，简单得来很美味，是很不错的选择。 喝着咖啡，从狭长的走廊看着走动的上班人潮，没想到在忙碌的中环中心地带也有如此宁静的地方，看见有些穿西装的也进来喝杯咖啡才继续上班的路程，这里也是个歇歇脚充充电的好地方吧． 这边自家制的面包当然不错，但别的就索价太贵，看来还是下次起淀粉质瘾时再过来吧． …查看更多

Back to reality after a long but not enough vacation. Walked to the SOHO area for lunch and noticed this place, which I passed by so many times before but never tried.The place has an open setting just by the mid-levels escalator, and is a great place to see and be seen.Their set lunch starts at $68, including dessert and coffee. Wow, sounds like a good deal. First came the bread which was great. We ordered:For soup or starter,I didn't try the soup but it looked great with lots of diced mushrooms. The chicken skewer was perfect, grilled to a slight char outside and tender/juicy inside. A great start. For mains,we orderedI didn't try the lasagna nor the linguini but Cat and Qoo said they were good. My schnitzel was super. Schnitzel was a traditional Austrian dish usually made of veal but these days, pork schnitzels were also common. The pork schnitzel served by Shelley was a big, thin slice wrapped and deep fried in bread crumbs, crispy on the outside but tender inside. I decided to ask for 2 pieces of rye bread and made up my own schinizel on rye which reminded me of the dormitory days when we had schnitzel on kaisers for lunch. The lemon butter sauce matched perfectly the schnitzel. We finished off the meal with a nice cup of Lavazza coffee and a minature strawberry mouse.Nice environment, good food (especially the bread and the schnitzel), good service. Will encore. …查看更多

Came here on the last day of 2010 for lunch, spontaneously, just because Bologne was closed from Dec31-Jan2. :( Just our luck! I don't think I would've come here if I realized that it was 'Real Bread Cafe' repackaged. Environment: Same as before. Orange, some high seats, some low, with a stove keeping diners warm despite the semi-open store front. Food:Set lunches are a real good deal, compared with the rest of SoHo. But then...I think you'd be willing to pay a bit more to dine at say, Al Dente, that always serves wonderful food. Spinach and Feta cakes with garlic yoghurt :(Didn't like this dish at all. First, there's strong herbs inside the cakes, which I don't like, and secondly, the spinach and feta cheese didn't go well together. It was just...weird. Garlic yoghurt...? Couldn't quite taste it dear. The side salad was good though - rocket, raw onions, halved cherry tomatoes. I gave most of my cakes away. Minestrone soupDidn't like this either - both E and M ordered this, but it was too sour for me. Not recommended. Between soup and cakes I'd pick the latter. If you want to take your chances you could go for the chicken and blue cheese salad, which just might be the best of the lot? Heh. Not placing my bet on that though, i don't like blue cheese. Potato dhal with steamed rice, flat bread and chutney:(:(:( The worst thing that happened to me this week. I asked the waitress in advance whether there would be a lot of coriander/parsley in the dish and asked her not to put any garnish. There was no garnish, thank God, but the entire thing was clogged in coriander. :( couldn't stand it. Did not touch it. I only ate my rice with a bit of the sauce on the side (the garlic cabbage radish puree and the orange/red dip in the middle) which was NOT satisfying at all. The rice was not hot enough and was hard. I prefer chinese/japanese rice. The flat bread wasn't yummy either. I thought it would be more bread-like than this, more doughy. I mean this stuff might be authentic but I just didn't like it, authentic or not. It was very peppery and hot. Didn't expect my bread to taste HOT. I wondered if they added chili! Linguine with chorizo and sundried tomatoes, rocket salad :) Perhaps this the only dish worth eating. Linguine is cooked al dente, chorizo wasn't too spicy but flavorful, tomatoes were a bit too sour and wet though. I 'd have preferred them drier, sweeter, with a stronger concentrated flavour. A bit too watery but I suppose that's how tomato concasse is. Improvements: replace tomato concasse with sun dried tomatoes, a less watery sauce, and add garlic chips. yumyum I would recommend this dish if you had to pick something from the list. Pan-fried salmon with mashed potatoes and asparagus Another fail. Although the portion is very generous, the fish was of poor quality, not very fresh, and I couldn't taste much salmon. I am guessing it even tasted a bit fishy, extremely undesirable. Sigh. Fish must be fresh, period. Fish isn't meant to be cheap. Go get better quality salmon and charge the premium on the buyer. It'll be worth it. And next time, smaller portions please? Bread and Butter Pudding:(:( I'm not exactly sure what to call this. I'd say it was a B&B pudding gone wrong. Too chewy and glutinous, solid. BB pudding as I know it should come as an undefined form if plated from a larger bowlful of BB. This one held its square shape too well! BBs should be more vulnerable, ha-ha. Neh. Although this wasn't tasty I enjoyed picking at the raisins, which were plump and juicy. Suggestion: try making BB pudding with croissant next time! Conclusion:Sorry, Shelley. I will not be seeing you again. But I must say something about the Service: and give credit to the staff - they were friendly, addressed us as 'dears', and were all smiles. Pity the food's lousy. :(…查看更多