View 62 by Paco Roncero (已結業)

好想食西班牙烧乳猪呢，试左几间餐厅都强差人意，我要食高质皮香肉嫩既乳猪呀 ﹗由北区揾到港岛区，揾到黎 View 62，过埋海希望揾到真命天子啦 ﹗好耐无出城食饭喇 ﹗今晚仲要过海添，劲开心 ﹗终于有位朋友仔陪我走到老远试菜啊 ﹗次次都系成团朋友出黎饭局，但今晚有几个放飞机，搞到自助餐取消 ﹗无所谓，得我两个都可以照食之麻，转去食西班牙菜，我想黎好耐架喇。朋友仔未到，我先入座吧。食客不是太多，环境都算宁静舒服。无敌海景连山景，360 度全景观既旋转餐厅，几得意。有点口渴喇，叫杯特别既餐前酒边饮边等，拍拍照、望望风景、睇睇 menu。刚才坐低都仲系山景，依家差不多转到海景喇 ﹗哈哈。辣西瓜马天尼，坚辣唔系讲笑，喉咙有点热力直达肠胃，有少少冒汗，加上西瓜汁既清凉好特别又好饮！朋友仔终于赶到，终于有朋友仔陪我黎试西班牙菜，餐厅即时送上杯 welcome drink，thank you。系时候点菜喇，今晚我最想试既系西班牙乳猪、西班牙海鲜饭 ﹗我一贯作风，先黎个前菜，跟住汤、主菜、甜品，够晒满足。菜色都几特别，花多眼乱，唔知试咩好添。忌廉伴鹅肝冻批及牛肝菌，配搭新颖有创意亦有趣︳特别就特别喇，不过质感同味道都较为普通，没什么惊喜既地方。可能温度偏低，所以食材未能发挥其强烈而独特的气味，使举使到食味大跌，鹅肝及牛肝菌阶是。忌廉牛油八爪鱼，唔讲真系唔知是什么，原全被酱汁所覆盖。浓厚奶油忌廉味道，处处飘香。薄薄八爪鱼片咽韧中带点脆口，咸香跟奶油味道非常配合，而且泛著一丝的甜味，蛮满意啊。餐包配牛油，侍应建议可以配刚才的忌廉牛油八爪鱼汁同吃，非常美味的呢 ﹗我就信下您啦，毫不犹豫、不需矜持，将餐包卷上大量汁夜掉在甜尖上翻腾 ﹗哗，无介绍错，无吹虚，果然好味 ﹗而且面包好新鲜，带著浓厚面包香味，好食。西班牙龙虾饭，原来依度系无西班牙海鲜饭架，无紧要，食龙虾更加好添 ﹗餐厅主打传统西班牙菜，味道都系偏向浓烈及霸道 ﹗依个龙虾饭既龙虾汁超乎想像地浓郁及强烈，味道非常好到不得了，龙虾味道既余韵拈据著每颗味蕾，久久都不肯离开，不过确实好有点腻滞感涌上心头。饭粒饱满咽韧，配上极爽弹鲜味龙虾肉，好味到打冷震。西班牙烧乳猪，我就系为左佢而远道而来 ﹗等左足足 60 分钟终于烧好，值成九百几蚊既乳猪会系点呢？两个人绝对食唔晒，一阵打包半份返总部同大家分享啦 ﹗新鲜出炉皮香肉嫩，但今晚只乳猪太肥喇，一定食完就瞓、瞓醒就食、食饱又瞓啦，不怎么做运动，不太健康 ﹗侍应哥哥话系已经系今晚最后一份架喇，唔要就无噜 ﹗肉香而有咬口有弹性，肉味浓郁，但因为十分油腻，食两件已经好滞顶住食唔落喇 ﹗虽然有个橙皮酱能够减轻油腻感觉，但帮助不大呢 ﹗餐厅细心地将乳猪汁分开上，Waiter 哥哥详细解译话唔想浸到乳猪皮腍左而影响口感，赞。配菜焗新薯好好味，做得一丝不苟不马虎。无奈地食左两件乳猪已经太滞，食唔落新薯啊 ﹗试过之后，似乎大埔文荟会馆既更好食，皮香肉嫩又 juicy，身材劲好唔肥腻，View 62 依只麻麻地。餐厅送既小甜品，白色超硬，用尽力先咬得开乍。前面既有点似花生果仁类，甜甜地。柠檬雪糕，睇左个甜品 menu 好耐，大部份都普通，依个算系最持别既一个喇 ﹗有个女甜品师系厨房冲出黎，用氮气将雪糕凝固，外层脆而里面软，都几得意 ﹗味道小小酸又带甜奶味啰。第一次撑台脚，食饱饱，坐多阵休息下，影下相就闪喇，影几张合照留念先。因为上次系诺士佛台食唔到只西班牙乳猪使我一直耿耿于怀，所以见依度有无敌开扬景观咪试依间啰，旋转餐厅个景真系好正，睇烟花一流，但有点失望。开心既时间好快过，坐到连餐厅都打烊喇。有段小插曲，最初我地隔离台班阿叔跟两三个北姑都好正常系度食生蚝，饮红酒饮烈酒，点知越饮越醉，越黎越嘈，仲要跳晒舞咁。全场都投以非常讨厌既眼神注视著，餐厅经理即时走过黎问我地想唔想转台呀？唔好意思骚扰到您地食饭呀。无紧要，麻烦帮我地转台啦，Thank you。 继续阅读

My mentee G at work is going back to the UK after a 9-month secondment in HK. I wanted to farewell her at a restaurant where she could enjoy the view of HK one last time before leaving for good. Among my choices were Pearl @ the Peak, Ritz @ the ICC and View 62. In the end, I picked the latter (selfishly for my sake as I have never tried it!).I arrived ahead of G and was being seated at a table by the window which I specifically requested for at booking (although not much need for it as almost all their tables are set by the window, I still wanted to play safe). The server politely handed over the iPad wine list and the food menu but without much intention to offer help at that moment and turned away. A quick glance through of the digital and printed menus gave me a sense of dizziness, almost like what you would feel reading on a moving car or onboard a plane, then I realised the floor was gradually revolving, and that's why.G arrived and was amazed by the stunning view and the fact that it is a revolving restaurant so she got to have a full 360 panoramic view of the HK skyline (from Wanchai). A full rotation takes about an hour to complete, which means most diners who come here for a decent meal should have more than sufficient time to enjoy a full turn.We started the night with some wines. The iPad drinks menu was kind of confusing to navigate through and not very user friendly; after a few laughs over playing around with it, we needed some help from the server to locate the right page to pick the wines. G ordered a glass of house Chardonnay and me house Sauvignon Blanc, both Spanish as we deliberately wanted to stick with the theme of the cuisine.We were too busy doing catch-ups to have almost forgotten about ordering food. The poor patient server was like turned away at least 3 times before he could get our orders. We decided to go “light" with Tapas for sharing in lieu of the mains so we could try more different dishes. We obviously had put dieting behind us and ordered 8 dishes, then finished off the meal with a dessert.“Carabinero" spanish red prawn sashimi” - fresh with cool presentation.Ibérico "bellota” 36-month ham (50g) - ok… hm, you know, the usual, taste buds not exceptionally fascinated by it. I’ve had better 36-month at other places.Ibérico ham toast with tomato and figs - fresh figs balanced off the oiliness of the ham, nice combination.“Boquerones en vinagre" marinated anchovies and potato chip - great combination and good companions to the wines; cool presentation as well.Clams with spanish green sauce - clams were jet fresh though the dish was a bit salty.Grilled squid with ink sauce - different from the usual you get from other Spanish restaurants, here they give you a full blown adult squid instead of the babies. Also, the squid is not cooked in its ink but with daps of the ink placing around the squid alongside some hollandaise sauce. Bit of a let-down as I’d prefer more ink.Bisqué de marisco" seafood soup with prawn, egg and almond - taste lacks complexity and I am not sure if I appreciate the chopped hard boiled eggs and almond which felt a bit out of place to me.Lamb spare ribs with "salsa de tomato” - Nicely done with meat tender and soft.Lemon tart with berries jam - just so-so: the tart shell was way too hard - I couldn’t even dig my fork in it without a hard push; the lemon curd filling too sweet although presentation scores.We were a bit carried away with the food and had stretched our stomachs a bit, but it was a perfect night with great view, ambience and food. Without us knowing, it was well passed 11pm and the server had to come politely ask us to move to the bar area where there was live music playing should we wish to continue as they needed to clean up the restaurant area, had we realised the time. We would really love to, but G had loads of packing to do before flying off the next day so we had to call the night off at that point.Todo lo mejor! G. Good luck in your future endeavours - way to go! And it was certainly a pleasure getting to know you, my very bright Cambridge mentee. 继续阅读

The first time to this restaurant.  We have heard good reviews.  We were looking forward to it.  Views were amazing.  The restaurant rotated but you wouldn't feel it moving.  The waiters introduced oysters.   I ordered some.  It was fresh and nice.   Main course was pigeon.   It was nicely presented.  It was very tendered and very delicious.   However, I was shocked to see there was no vegetables and potato to go with it.   For prices like these ($390), one would expect some vege or potato to come with your main course.  There were only four slices of pigeon meat, sizes equivalent to tuna sashimi at Japanese restaurants.    The portion was very small for me and I don't have a big appetite.  The waiter should have known about this.  The waiter didn't suggest me to order potato or vege on the side when he took our orders.  That was disappointing.    My husband has ordered lamb rack for main ($460).  It came with small amounts of tomato and spinach, no potato.   He was shocked by the small portion too.   In general, we had a lovely evening.   The only thing bothered us is the small portion of food.   继续阅读

人生当中很多事情只得一次机会。对 View 62 的食物，我们一口气在她试业的第一个星期给了两次机会！极为可惜的是，除了优雅的环境以外，Chef Paco Roncero 的当代西班牙菜未能为我们营造惊喜。转眼已过了年半，不时有消息传出， Chef Paco Roncero 会旋风式访港为餐厅造势。心想，差不多是时候给这位 Adrià Ferran 的得意门生多一个机会。午巿时间，餐厅主推三道菜的商务午餐，价钱由 $250 至 $350不等，主要视乎所选的主菜而定。  海虾配蒜片、辣椒及薯仔忌廉, 4/5厨师将香蒜炒过的大虾，摆设得像 shrimp cocktail 一般的卖相，再伴以薯仔忌廉和少许辣椒油。大虾入口感觉惹味，质地也相当弹牙，这道菜特别适合吃得重味的朋友。  香煎鹅肝、青苹果姜味雪芭, 3.5/5另一款头盘是香煎鹅肝。由于鹅肝经过香煎之后，会释放不少油份，因此厨师特别采用了姜味的雪芭，与及青苹果粒和青苹果片来作衬托，藉此减轻鹅肝的油腻。这个配搭既有创意，亦同样能达到设计的功效。不过倘若鹅肝能够再厚切多一点点，口感必定更叫人满足。  油浸鸭腿、配杂莓, 3.5/5主菜率先拣选了油封鸭腿，菜式加上以鸭肉、鸭骨和杂莓一同肴制的酱汁后，入口更加香浓。这款油封鸭腿跟一般油封鸭腿不同之处，是肉质没有正常的干硬。相反它的质感好比被慢火燘过一样，口感像吃燘牛腩或东坡肉般的畅快。  煎鳕鱼配青豆蓉、鳀鱼、西班牙火腿泡沫, 3/5近期吃过不少用鳀鱼做配菜的菜式。自问个人不太喜欢吃鳀鱼，但用作吊味效果却一流！这道鳕鱼绝对拥有上乘和美味的配料所支持，青豆蓉、鳀鱼和西班牙火腿泡沫各有所长，味道有层次亦够丰富。可惜败笔来自鳕鱼身上，或许是火候掌握得不太好，以至过于干身，也可能是鳕鱼的肉质本身不够肥美，令到菜式略为失色。  意式奶冻配红桑子, 4/5甜品永远都是不可缺少的一环，这次厨师终于没有令我们失望了。（上次的甜品是鲜菠萝粒加乳酪，简单而且零难度！）意式奶冻特别加入了红桑子味道，鲜红得非常悦目。味道也不会守旧，红桑子味跟奶和云呢拿味十分配合，总算为午餐画上满意的句号。  总结卖点仍然是无敌环回的景观，成功地打做出一个开扬雅致的环境气氛。但服务质素跟年半前一样没有太大起色，以普通餐厅来说是勉强的达标，但若以高级餐厅而言，便欠了一份殷勤和细心。不过最关心的还是食物的水准。个人从这次的体验，察觉到菜式的水准的确较试业时稳定，菜式之间不会有太大的起伏，唯一美中不足的是惊喜有点儿不足。 继续阅读

After dinner at Happy Veggies, I took my friends to View 62 for drinks and girls chat When we got to 57/F, a tall male in suits asked if we were going up for drinks and took us up! While we were in the lift, my friend said she needs the toilet When we arrived on 62/F, he asked if we would like to use the washroom first before going in. He pointed to my friend the direction for the toilet and then led us to our seat. We were seated right next to the live singers at the sofa seats by the window! Strawberry pina colada tasted like a non-alcholic smoothie with just the right level of sweetness. The whipped cream on top was so fluffy We liked this best and probably should order all three flavours of pina colada next time we come here xPThis passionfruit drink's a bit too alcoholic for my friend's liking.My margarita is refreshing and I could really taste the tequila and lime and it didn't melt too fast, not enough salt on the glass though. The size of the drinks and the amount of alcholol in the cocktails were much more generous than those you get in Central and there is unlimited good quality nuts! Love the cozy ambience, the 360 degrees rotating view and the jazzy bossa nova live music. Big contrast from bars in Central where you have to shout in your friends' ears and squeezed  into tiny tables.  At the price of $100 per drink, you get amazing view, classy decor, attentive service and good live music, definitely one of the best places for drinks in HK.  继续阅读