The newly established Hotel Icon is ambitious in proving itself to stand out from their direct competitors in the vicinity! The Above and Beyond Cantonese Restaurant already has on...
Thierry Marx is popular and well known to be a visionary chef, probably carrying with him a slightly revolutionary side to his haute cuisine approach. He deviates from the well est...
This boulagerie shop in Montmartre near Sacre Coeur has won a 1st Prize for both their Baguettes as well as their Croissants in Paris. The shop has roughly 30 outlets in Europe all...
Visiting Paris or France in general is not an easy task for a foreigner arriving here for only a few days. I have been to Paris a few times but have only started taking photos in the rec...
Pho noodles outside of Vietnam, it makes me ponder. Where do we find the next best alternative versions outside of Vietnam? Some people say Canada, some say...
I have previously planned in my head to make sure I go visit a few of the most popular bistros, bouchons or casual dining places during this trip, but unfortunately many of the hottest j...
Restaurants around the Gare du Nord or Gare de l’Est stations have generally been the ones I tried to avoid all these years, they just look touristy and the menus are quite g...
Mirror has received a lot of praise ever since the beginning and during it’s peak, tables were being booked out for 3 months in advance! It probably toned down a bit si...
Competition must be rife along this Tsim Sha Tsui East strip. This restaurant inside Hotel Nikko is my last hotel Chinese Restaurant to be conquered along the Tsim Sha Tsui e...
To local Melburnians, Seven Seeds is quite well known as a recent addition to the indie roaster café scene, the owners having splitted from another well known group. Th...
With quite a many new steak house openings, the customer can ask - how many of these new steak houses really supply a full prime quality steak and even provide a truly charco...
There has been a proliferation of Ramen shops arriving in kamikaze pilot fashion which is totally swamping the HK food scene, so much so that I couldn’t ever catch up with eating them al...
The new Bar Menu downstairs is attractive and playful, introducing more tastier dishes of otherwise wasted parts in a slaughtered animal. These might include off cuts such as Pork ...
Mandarin Bar & Grill under the guidance of Chef Uwe Opocensky has become one of my favorite restaurants in town, if not in the world! A previous review can be found HERE, ...
Ippou 一芳 seemed so capable of becoming a success story on theory. Just look at Yardbird. The ultimate goal here is to be the hippest Japanese chicken specialty shop,&nb...
Proud Mary has to be proud of its achievements. After around 10 visits and repeatedly ordering many same food and coffee items, only during my last 2 visits before I left Mel...
Chez Dre has a Pastry Chef who used to train in Paris and you can totally see the heart put into the food here. I think I liked their desserts and pastries the most. The croi...
Bamboo House is a great restaurant, it has been good for the last 25 years I have been visiting. I actually rate it above Flower Drum in Melbourne in terms of regional Chines...
Pierre Gagnaire is in town doing a Bordeaux inspired cuisine as a preview meal. Later on during May, 5 of the dishes from this preview dinner will be presented as a Le French Gourm...
As a native Hong Kong foodie I think it’s part of my role as a citizen to promote exciting local events when it falls within my capacity. Yes, my face in a local ...
The theme for tonight’s dinner is 五邑菜 - 想家, which are five sub-regional cities in South Western Canton province and which their dishes differ slightly from our typical Cantonese cuisine e...
The official name of this afternoon tea set is “Stephen Webster Bijoux Tea” and is available from the 21st to the 29th of April, thanks to Asia Tatler Dining for the information an...
It is not easy to rate a restaurant during certain occasions. You are stepping inside one of the best Italian restaurants in HK operated by Chef Bombana, and not only that, i...
I previously mentioned in my David’s 舞心 でびっと ramen review that I have eaten some average noodles here at Kureha. I am not back tracking entirely from that stance but as a foo...
Belgian beers are undoubtedly the most respected artisanal beers in terms of styles, with the many thousands of individual beers each carrying their own methods of productions! I can tot...
Lupa is not a fine dining restaurant, this point needs to be stressed again and again as mentioned by my foodie friends. Don’t come here expecting 8 1/2 Otto e Mezzo Review 1 or Rev...
The Ramen craze in Hong Kong is showing no signs of abatement. After having some very average ramens at Ramen Kureha (拉麵來) which I didn’t bother reviewing, some pretty good noodles...
Greyhound Café is a modernised Thai Café that is quite familiar to most Hong Kong travellers who frequently come past Thailand as a holiday destination. Most Thai locals don’t seem to rat...
At Michelin Star crowned Man Wah Restaurant on the top floor of the HK Mandarin Oriental Hotel (previous write-ups here at Review 1 & Review 2) , they have once agai...
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