The Continental x Annick Goutal - L'ile Au Thé Afternoon Tea

Price: $$

Cravingness: ★★★☆☆1/2

Here it comes the month most filled with love, February. The month with Valentine's Day which all couples are so very looking forward to. Restaurants are filled with all kinds of Valentine's special and here I am going to introduce a refreshing Spring afternoon tea set launched by The Continental and Annick Goutal. The afternoon tea is to promote the new fragrance L'ile Au Thé with a lovely and smoothing tea launching in Joyce Beauty in April 2015, so many items are infused with tea elements. The afternoon tea is available from Feb 7th to 25th.

Fish & Meat New Brunch Menu

Price: $$$

Cravingness: ★★★☆☆1/2

If bubbly brunch is your thing, you do not want to miss Fish & Meats new brunch menu. If you also love pancake, you will die to come here as they also recently launched a new buttermilk pancake station. The semi buffet brunch also comes with an eclectic array of appetisers, salads, seafood station, bruschetta station and a choice of main and dessert to pamper the diners for a lazy Sunday brunch!

Café Causette - Lobster & Bubbles Pop-up Menu

Price: $$$$

Cravingness: ★★★★☆

What I love dining at Mandarin Oriental is that they have celebrity chef and pop-up menus from time to time. The classy international restaurant Café Causette has just launched a new pop-up menu - Lobster & Bubbles, pairing the two lavish goodies together to excite our palate. The special menu is available everyday for dinner and weekdays for Lunch until 31 August, 2014.

Azure - The New 8th Anniversary Dinner Menu

Price: $$$$

Cravingness: ★★★★☆

Stepping into their 8th year, Azure Restaurant Slash Bar created a special 4-course set dinner to celebrate the event. The menu is designed to be refreshing to offset the crazy heat and disgusting humidity of Hong Kong's Summer. The menu is available daily from 1st August until 30 September 2014, priced at HKD588+10% per person. Mixologists at Azure also created eight refreshing Absolut cocktails, at a great price of HKD88! Come enjoy the cocktails at the rooftop at 30th floor to enjoy the cityscape before indulging yourself in good food.

Steik World Meats - New Afternoon Tea

Price: $

Cravingness: ★★★☆☆

I was invited over to Steik Wold Meats at K-11 as they have recently launched an afternoon tea session. The afternoon tea highlights a wide range of savoury and sweet delights, priced only at HKD248+10% for two with complimentary coffee and tea with unlimited refills. I have always wanting to try their steaks, but it is nice to try their afternoon tea too.

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!

Harlan Goldstein's Comfort - New Casual Dinning Experience!

Price: $$$

Cravingness: ★★★☆☆1/2

I have a rather complex feelings on Harlan Goldstein's latest opening Comfort at where Strip House was once located. I mourn for the temporary closure of Strip House, but I am also elated to try a new casual dining experience created by Harlan! At Comfort, you do not need to care about the "smart casual" dress code or worry about the extravagance environment that urges you to behave. In Comfort, as it's name suggested, it is a restaurant aims to provide a causal environment to bring comfort ambiance and food to all diners.

Nosh - New Favourite Brunch Place!

Price: $$

Cravingness: ★★★★☆

Nosh is a new brunch place I found located over the corner at Upper Station street. The brunch menu is not extensive but has enough choices to pick from. All ingredients tasted fresh and delicious. The atmosphere is great and the staffs are attentive. It was our first time brunching here but we already love it here.

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.

Madam Sixty Ate - Lovely Dinner with Impeccable Service

Price: $$$$

Cravingness: ★★★★☆

As you know my Restaurant Week started with a quite unpleasant dining experience, fortunately Madam Sixty Ate made it up. I have always been wanting to go to Madam Sixty Ate  but I have heard some negative comments about it which delayed my plan of visit. I checked the RW Dinner menu and it looked pretty solid, so why not checked it out myself?

Glo Restaurant + Lounge - Never Ending Tasting Menu

Price: $$$

Cravinginess: ★★★☆☆

Glo Restaurant + Lounge is another hotel restaurant offering International Cuisine nests under the Rhombus hotel group. Each Rhombus restaurant has its own uniqueness and at Glo Restaurant + Lounge, they offer a Never Ending Tasting Menu which is an all you can eat menu with 18 courses from starters to desserts for 2 hours, priced at a fairly good deal at HKD338 exc. 10% service charge. The menu changes every month as well to keep their menu interesting.

Feast - 'Simple Dishes, Done Well'

Price: $$$

Cravingness: ★★★★☆

Feast, Food by EAST has been on my to try list for a long time, it is until recent that I visit Taikoo Shing more frequently. Located at the EAST hotel, the hotel restaurant Feast is always filled with office workers during weekdays. That pretty much explains how popular their semi-buffet lunch and dinner are. I am invited over today to try their new a al carte menu which I will explain more below.

The Parlour - Mediocre Bubbly Sunday Brunch

Price: $$$$

Cravingness: ★★★☆☆

I have never dined at the beautiful antique Hullett House, so I was quite excited brunching at the Parlour last Sunday. The bubbly brunch offers buffet salad and dessert counters, a main course from a wide selection with free flow champagne, summer wild berries champagne cocktails, fresh juices and carbonated drinks at a price of HKD668. Quite expensively priced, one of my friends got us special deal from Travel Zoo so we can indulge the brunch at HKD560! How could we ignore the offer?

Grove - Smoked Salmon Salad

I had Grove's Smoked Salmon Salad today as I need to pre-cleanse my body before I start my 3 day Cleanse Punch Detox programme.

The Smoked Salmon Salad is the second salad I tried from Grove Sandwiches. Differs from the Greek Salad, the mayonnaise dressing was pre-mixed in the box. There was loads of potatoes, sweet corn, apple, pineapple, cucumber, lettuce, two thick slices of smoked salmon and salmon roe on top. The smoked salmon was aromatic, meaty and savoury with strong salmon taste. The lemon wedge at the side added extra acidity to the salmon and also made it less oily to taste. The roe did not seem too fresh and got stick together.

Grove - Healthy Greek Salad

Price: $

Cravingness: ★★★☆☆

Under many negative encouragements from my "dearest" friends on facebook regarding my status determining to lose weights, I bought myself today Grove's salad for lunch. Well to be completely honest, the reason behind was actually because I am having a big feast tonight. I reckon I probably should have salad to cut down the overall calories intake. :P

Azure - Classic Meets Modern

Price: $$$$

Cravingness: ★★★☆☆

Located on the top floor of LKF Hotel, Azure Restaurant Slash Bar provides their guests a convenient location with a spectacular night view of central. The extensive a La Carte and drink menu offer many great choices. What's more, the monthly themed set menu ensure Azure's guests can be excited every month.

The Socialhouse - Food with Interesting twist

Price: $$

Cravingness: ★★★☆☆1/2

One might think The Socialhouse is a lively bar restaurant for friends to mingle, in fact The Socialhouse has this romantic setting which actually suits couples dining more. Anyway I went with my dad tonight, so I had a nice candle light dinner with him. Ha! The restaurant is always empty, but I wanted to try it for long so that couldn't change my mind.

Azure Restaurant and Slash Bar - A Touch of Spring

Price: $$$$

Cravingness: ★★★☆☆
(Media Tasting)

Located in the heart of Central, was the renowned bar Azure at the top of LKF hotel. Many might know about the awesome bar but yet to know about Azure as a restuarant offering decent dishes.



The second floor had a completely different look from late night, which white tables with candle lights were set up, creating an intimate and classy dining scene. The dining floor will get back to the lively dance floor at around 11ish. I guess Azure can pretty much ensure a great night out for anyone.

AVA Restaurant and Slash Bar - A Lovely Refreshing Spring Dinner

Price: $$$

Cravingness: ★★★★★
(Restaurant Tasting)

Dining at AVA is an exquisite experience - from the moment you walk through the carpeted pathway at the front door towards the elevator, overlooking the extraoridinary Victoria Harbour through the elevator window, dining at a sleek designed room with exquisite cuisine, you will be impressed.

The restaurant has a contemporary and extravagance design with electronic music playing at the background. The ambience is romantic with dim yellow lighting and candle lights on the table, which is best for an intimate dining for two. Just imagine seating by the window with your beloved, sipping a glass of champagne while overlooking the magnificent view of the Victoria Harbour? That sounds heaven on earth right?

Grand Central Bar & Grill - Degust The 1912 Titanic Menu

★★★☆☆

$$$

It's been a century since the tragic accident of the world's biggest and luxurious ship Titanic. The media is all about the Titanic, and so are the restaurants in Hong Kong. The Titanic menu is definitely a gimmick to attract customers, but I am interested to know what is on the Titanic Menu in 1912.  So I brought my friend to Grand Central Bar and Grill tonight to degust the once luxurious menu on the Titanic.

Grand Central Bar and Grill (GC) is located on the far end of the Civic Square at the Element, I have been to the area for quite a few times and the ambiance is guaranteed nice in there.