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2009-03-07
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We were looking forward to some good Italian, but were sadly disappointed by Va Bene. The bread basket was the first disappointment...usually bread baskets should be good in any decent Italian restaurant, but not here. Greasy lavash tasted like nothing, other breads were slices from large loaves...no yummy little bread rolls. No butter either... instead we got two dips, a tasteless tomato salsa that lacked garlic or salt, and what looked like a hummus (minus the flavour). It might have been baby
The menu was uninspiring, but we settled on the fried artichokes and octopus salad as starters. Both were drenched in what tasted like pretty cheap olive oil. The artichokes were crispy on the edges, but any flavour was drowned out by the oil. The octopus salad was like cafeteria food...just mixed leaves, chopped up octopus and a squeeze of lemon. And LOTS of olive oil. Bleah.
Mains were spaghetti vongole, and monkfish. The spaghetti was ok, but very dull. And a small serving too. The monkfish was fibrous and spongy, not the fat firm medallions we expected.
Dessert: chocolate bomb cake (described as a chocolate torte?) was like every other chocolate bomb cake, but drier on the outside, and accompanied by a sickeningly sweet vanilla sauce. Dessert 2 was a coffee caramel creme brulee...quite nice, but nothing special.
This food would have been disappointing in a mid-priced restaurant. At HK$600 a head it is a joke. The entire place feels like it is run with the goal of churning out production line food with as high a mark-up as possible, with no ambition to actually provide tasty or interesting choices. Avoid.
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