Texas Burger - Burger Disappointment

Price: $

Cravingness: ★☆☆☆☆

In the past months, there has been more exciting cozy restaurants opening in Tin Hau, I have put a few on my to try list, including Texas Burger which I was invited to try today. I asked a few of my friends and got positive feedback and so I went.

Beef & Liberty - Retry & Congrats for 2015 Bib Gourmand

Price: $$

Cravingness: ★★★☆☆1/2

First of all, a big congratulation to Beef and Liberty for being listed as the one and only Bib Gourmand burger restaurant on Michelin Guide Hong Kong and Macau 2015. If you read my previous preview on Beef & Liberty, I was upset about my burger being dry. I came back to Beef & Liberty under invitation as I was told Chef Neil Tomes improves his burgers' recipe from time to time. I wonder if my first was a bad time for Beef & Liberty, so I have to come back again.

Beef & Liberty - Dry Burgers

Price: $$

Cravingness: ★★☆☆☆

Among numerous burger restaurants in Hong Kong, Beef & Liberty is a popular choice known for great burgers. I had been longing to try the burgers here and held great expectation. I came over on a Sunday for brunch but the restaurant was packed. I waited around half an hour for a table for four. Not too bad giving its popularity.

Blue Butcher - Burger Crave!

Price: $$$

Cravingness:★★★☆☆

Blue Butcher Bar & Restaurant is the heaven for meat lovers. It is a great steakhouse located on Hollywood Road, Soho where it sources and offers the best virgin Japanese Wagyu to satisfy the diners' taste bud. Starting from 7 April 2014, Blue Butcher launches a monthly lunch burger specials and I went to try it out by invitation. After all who could resist the drooling thick cut of Mayura Wagyu Sirloin Patty on that burger!

Common Room - Cold Food In Tiny Portion

Price: $$

Cravingness: ★★☆☆☆

My third and very last restaurant for the Dining City Restaurant Week was Common Room. I was not too sure at the beginning if the dinner menu worth a visit during the RW, but the menu did not look bad so my plan went on.

Common Room is located at the heart of Lan Kwai Fong, Central. With a light projection of its logo on the floor of Wo On Lane, you could probably guess Common Room is a pretty hip place to dine in. The furnishing at Common Room is rather rustic and woody, very lounge like and cool.

Bao Wow - Fast, Casual, Affordable Bao

Price: $

Cravingness: ★★★☆☆

If you ask what is the recent food trend in Hong Kong, it is definitely Bao. Bao has made a scene in Hong Kong and if you notice more restaurants are adding bao into the menu, recent examples would be Comfort by Gold Harlans or Mayta Peruvian Kitchen. And of course there are restaurants that specialise in only bao, so today I am going to introduce to you a pretty new one in Wanchai called Bao Wow.

Prêt à Manger - Welcome to Kowloon Bay, My Love!

Price: $

Cravingness: ★★★★★

Long awaited my favourite sandwich shop Prêt à Manger finally opened in Kowloon Bay! Finally a place that truly offers fresh and delicious sandwiches, baguettes, wraps, cakes, hot soup, bakery items etc. I no longer have to suffer from the horrible food from the local sandwich shops or the mediocre salads at Groves. See me at lunch here at Prêt à Manger everyday! :D

J-Dog - Japanese Style Hot Dog

Price: $
Cravingness: ★★★☆☆1/2

Somehow I think people dinning in Tai Hang usually has a dinning option in mind. So perhaps being a fast food shop, J-dog might not be as populated as other restaurants on the same street. I went today for a quick dinner and found it was actually pretty nice. So hop in here to get their dogs for snack or for a quick meal.

Champs Bar and Restaurant - The Happy Hour Bar

Price: $$

Cravingness: ★★★☆☆

(Restaurant Tasting)

There was once when I wanted to try every single burger place in Hong Kong, The Champs was on my to try list. The Champs is located at the Charter House, somewhere I wouldn't say is at the heart of Wanchai. It is quite a coincident that it falls into one of my walking route from work, where I spotted its huge poster advertising their burger and know about it's existence.

The Champs is a bar restaurant in American settings. The place is spacious, with an open bar table at the front door and lots of stools and booth seatings further inside.  There is two big TV screens in the middle and at the end of the pub restaurant, playing sports channel that apparently drawing many guys here. The ambiance is quite lively with suitable noise level which is perfect for happy hour and also for big party, which happened to accommodated one the night I went.

Cafe Grouchos - Nice Burger & Cute Sliders

★★★★☆

$

We came to Stanley today planning to spend the afternoon on the beach. My friend asked me to find a place for brunch beforehand, and so we went to Cafe Grouchos.

Cafe Grouchos is an outdoor cafe located at Stanley Waterfront Mart, especialises in fast food such as hotdogs and burgers. Right next to Grouchos, there is a rival cafe which serves similar food, so look carefully if you want to pay a visit here (I heard next door wasn't that good). Tables come and go quite quickly within 10 minutes, so its worthwhile for those minutes of wait.

Freshness Burger - Bad Burger

★★☆☆☆

$

My last encountered with Freshness Burger was a LONG time ago. My mum gave me a buy 1 get 1 coupon, so I figured I should come back to try it again. To be safe, I got the Cheese combo.

Wing Lok Yuen - Gluttony Dog

Price: $
Cravingness: ★★★☆☆

Passing Central during one lazy afternoon and thought of Wing Lok Yuen's infamous hot dog. Went to check out their menu and found out they offer double sausages in one hotdog. I got a bit disappointed as the sausage was rather tiny and the sauce was not magnificent. The bun however was toasted crunchy and served hot.

For the price of HKD11, it was actually quite a bargain. If you are around Central and feeling hungry, grab one dog to go!

Absolute Burger | Horrible Service

Absolute Burger
B1, Capital Building, 6-10 Sun Wui Road, Causeway Bay
☏ 2808 0530
11:30-21:00(Mon-Sun)
Date of Dinning: 30 March 2011

My coupon from Bee Crazy is expiring at the end of this month, so I decided to use it today if not I am gonna waste it. I thought Burger would be my great get away, since I have been eating healthy for a while without my best friend - fatty food. However the dinning experience wasn't particularly nice, and you could see it why from below. :(

I was thinking about not calling for a reservation, but fortunately I did as there was around 4 groups of 2-3 people waiting outside the restaurant. It was difficult to locate Absolute Burger as firstly it was in the basement and secondly, there was no clear signs signaling the restaurant at all. I search the restaurant up online and I immediately figured it was just next to Mist - where I dine yesterday!

Frites | The Exquisite Belgium Beer House

If you ask me what is the first thing that comes to mind when I hear Frites, its has to be KNUCKLES!  (Well, chips seems to be too obvious right?) I had already tried some delicious pork knuckles, from my last visit in Frites, so this time we are trying something new.

Today we came with a big beer fan who can't really live without alcohol in a single day. He had never heard about Frites but was elated to be this Belgium Beer house, which he then decided to come every happy hour until he had tried all beer on menu! Excited as he was, he counted the beer on the menu one by one and found there was 86 kind of beers in total. Impressive figures. Not only the variety of beer it offers are totally awesome, the special cup and coaster that goes with each kind of beer was more amazing. Frites would be heaven to coasters collector.

The Gourmet Burger Union

The recent Beer Pong Tournament did get me to dine a lot in lkf. After our last visit in the Cul-De-Sac, today we decided to dine in Gourmet Burger Union which is just right opposite to CDS.

On our way up the slope, we got this $10 promotion coupon from GBU's worker which suited us perfectly. The GBU store was extremely tiny, it could only fit less than six customers at one time. There was just a couple dinning when we arrived the restaurant, but I felt claustrophobic already.

Shake'em Buns - Cheese Steaks Indulgence

After the heavenly tasty Cheese Steaks from Cul-De-Sac, it got itself a pretty prestigious position in my favourite food list. From my last visit to Shake'em Buns, I vaguely remembered the menu mentioned Cheese Steaks. So I went to check it out.

From what I remembered, Shake'em Buns usually toasted their buns for burgers. The buns were usually toasted very crunchy and went extremely nice with the Burgers. While Cul-De-Sac's bun was a bit on the soft side, I held great expectation on Shake'em Bun's Cheese Steaks.

The Big Bite - A Tale of 3 People and 50 wings!

Tuesday is here and so is Big Bites' Wings Night. Their renown buffalo wings was all priced at $3/pc in any quantity (minimum 5pc) upon the purchase of a $15 beer or drink.

Wings Night is a popular trend for bars in the US for friends to eat inexpensive food and grab a beer. We saw lots of ppl tonight but it seems none of them are here for the wings.

My crazy friends wanted to order 20 wings per person which I have objected the idea instantly. We compromised to order less and get an chips order instead. Then they went to order, which I later regretted since they ended up ordering 50 wings without informing me. 50 WINGS OMG!

Mc Donald's | Weeeeee Le Grand

Watching the cute girl with a pair of big eyes and a bob hair saying 'wee' made me once wonder how would this bread tasted like. Honestly I am not a big fan of Mc Donald's and I won't usually be interested in trying their new products. However I heard the bread was nice and was worth to try.

Cul-de-Sac | Wow! So this is Cheese Steaks!

Right before the 2010 beer pong tournament commenced at Hush, we went to lkf for dinner and I suggested Cul-de-Sac which located at one of the busiest street at lkf renowned for Thai cuisine.

Cul-de-Sac is a word of French origin refers to dead end street with only one inlet. In modern suburban use, Cul-de-Sac is used to calm vehicle traffic. Cul-de-Sac restaurant in this case might means a place to gather away from the crowds in lkf.

The Cul-de-Sac is an American fast food restaurant which serves hotdogs, burgers and other snacks. It is a tiny store with only four high tables and several bar table seats, yet its decor is in western pub style and it had successfully captured the lively ambiance in the area. Not to mention their huge open kitchen which mouth watery aroma dispersed all over the restaurant.

Shake'em Buns | Nice place Nice Food Nice Service

Having heard of the name Shake'em Buns for so many times, I finally got my chance to dine there! We arrived the J Residence but had no idea where the restaurant was, so we walked round the building and checked things out at the same time. During the circling, we located several decent restaurants in the building that we have heard of but not knowing where they are. Seems I would be dinning here a lot in the coming weeks.