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2011-09-13
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My family decided to celebrate mid-autumn at a Western restaurant this year, to break away from tradition and we picked Spoon because of its harbour view (which ought to give us a view of the full moon). What a bad decision that was!To begin with, our table of 8 was seated at a back corner of the restaurant, far away from the window. We tried to get the waiters' attention numerous times during the meal and no one ever looked our way.The restaurant also forced us to all take their set menu and wo
To begin with, our table of 8 was seated at a back corner of the restaurant, far away from the window. We tried to get the waiters' attention numerous times during the meal and no one ever looked our way.
The restaurant also forced us to all take their set menu and would not even allow my 10-yo niece, who could not possibly finish the set menu, to order from the a-la-carte menu. Frankly, I think their inflexible attitude was shocking - when they are charging us this amount of money.
As it was mid-autumn, we were expecting some inspired / seasons dishes in the menu. Instead, none of the 6 dishes impressed us. The starter cold broccoli soup tasted like my baby's pureed broccoli, only more watery and with a dollop of ewe cottage cheese. The crayfish salad was tasty but nothing special. The seabass was so salty that I wonder if the chef broke the salt bottle when seasoning it. The veal main was the worst of all - the veal was tender enough but it was stuffed with a very strong flavoured cheese and paired with black truffle sauce. Anyone respectable chef with some cooking sense would consider pairing black truffle with strong cheese a sacrilege. The veal was also very poorly presented as a plate with a plonk of meat swimming in black sauce. The side vegetable gratin was also charred and over-spiced. The two desserts were really boring - the strawberry pavlova was something you could get in a $200 set menu. The same goes for the hazelnut cake which would cost around $40 a piece at any nice cake shops in Hong Kong.
But what REALLY got us was the poor service. The restaurant was around half-full but the service was excruciatingly slow, with our entire table yawning and getting really bored of the waits in between courses. When they finally served our dishes, they came in 4 waves such that the food was already cold by the time everyone's plates arrived. The accompanying sauce for the dishes also came in 4 waves (they served the sauce in milk jars (which only holds a 1 person portion) - it would be so much quicker if they had a gravy boat and just went round the table to serve us all in one go) and we got so tired of waiting in the end that we gobbled down the food without the sauce. And despite telling various waiters that we don't need more bottled water, they still kept opening the Evian bottles - no doubt to rack up more cost for us.
There was no redeeming factors and I will definitely NOT recommend this overpriced restaurant to anyone, unless you have the patience of a saint. I hope the management brushes up its service and make some improvements. It is such a waste of this beautifully decorated restaurant with possibly the best harbour view in town.
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