Gaucho - Flame Grilled Argentinian Steakhouse

Price: $$$$

Cravingness: ★★★★★

Flame on! Gaucho, the award wining Argentinian steakhouse originated in UK has recently made its stop in the steakhouse battle scene in Hong Kong. Located at the LHT Tower, the very heart of Central, Gaucho Hong Kong is the first flapship restaurant in Asia (Wo-hoo!). I am very excited about its opening, but not as excited as Henry, as Gaucho is his favourite steakhouse on Earth and he can talk hours about it. We thought reservation would be difficult, but to our surprise, we got our reservation pretty easily.

Bouchon - Great Place + Great Food

Price: $$$$

Cravingness: ★★★★☆

Bouchon, the French Bistro on Elgin Street, has always been on my to try list. Finally I went last Saturaday to celebrate my friends' birthday. We went in as a big group of 10, we got seated in the indoor bar table area since it was raining outside. We had an amazing time at Bouchon, and we all love it there.

Wildgrass - Meaty Sunday Brunch

Price: $$$

Cravingness: ★★★☆☆1/2

Wildgrass is a casual country-style restaurant that offers organic nose-to-tail eating at Arbuthnot Road, Central. Wildgrass stresses on natural, sustainable ingredients cooked with traditional slow cooking method and nose-to-tail eating to embrace food with no wastage. They serve OBE beef from free roaming,  grass fed cattle in Australia Outback which gives more favourable meat. Wildgrass' Sunday Semi-buffet brunch is a good time to try their dishes in one go.

Yorkshire Pudding - Culinary Battle for Great Britain

Price: $$$

Cravingness: ★★★★☆

With the Scottish Independence Referendum approaching on 18th September 2014, Yorkshire Pudding, the British Gastropub at the heart of soho, has held a culinary battleground between Scotland and Britain. With no political grounds, Yorkshire Pudding has designed two unbiased menus to accentuate the very best of both countries' cuisine. Get you palate ready for the battle and vote your favourite one!

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.

La Vache - Mooooooooo!

Price: $$$

Cravingness: ★★★★☆

Stage back a year ago to my gastronomy trip in Paris, I missed dinning at Le Relais de l'Entrecôte, a famous steak frites in Paris as my stomach got real upset after all the delicious food that I had. When I first heard about La Vache, the steak frites in soho, I got really excited. We failed a few times making a phone reservation, so we decided to just walk in tonight. And to our surprise, they have a (bar) table for us!

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!

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?

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 Steak House Wine Bar + Grill - The Steak King?

Price: $$$$$

Cravingness: ★★★☆☆

Whenever we talk about the best steakhouse in Hong Kong, the Steakhouse Wine Bar + Grill at Intercontinental is always mentioned. Being crowned the Steak King, I finally got the chance to try the steak house since HSBC Premier Visa Card is offering a 20% discount on every al la carte items which is an amazing deal that cannot be missed!



The steakhouse has a similar settings and ambience to any other good steakhouse in Hong Kong - it is spacious, grand but causal at the same time. The very attribute that makes the Steak House stands out is their charcoal grill, which is the one and only charcoal grill in Hong Kong. Despite that they are also known for the topnotch services and the eclectic selection of knives, steaks and condiments! I will explain more in below.

Yorkshire Pudding - The introduction of Premium English Beef

Cravingness: ★★★☆☆

I once hated roasted beef and Yorkshire pudding. When I was still studying in UK, my school canteen serves roasted beef and Yorkshire pudding every Sunday (as we called it Sunday Roast.) Now that I have moved back to Hong Kong for long, I missed the Sunday Roast. When I got the invitation to the luncheon launch of English Beef from EBLEX at Yorkshire Pudding, I was very excited.

Carnevino - Beautifully Charred Sirloin

Price: $$$$

Cravingness: ★★★★☆

USDA Prime Top Sirloin 12oz

Carnevino is an Italian steakhouse located right at the heart of Central. With its name "Carne" stands for steaks and "vino" stands for wine, the steak house is promised to serve the highest quality steaks and remarkable wine.

Strip House by Harlan Goldstein - Flirty Food

Price: $$$$

Cravingness: ★★★☆☆1/2

Strip House by Harlan Goldstein is an American steakhouse located amidst the lustrous Lang Kwai Fang. With a sexual name, Strip House creates a flirty ambiance for its diners.

Starting with a red luminous light with "Strip House by Harlan Goldstein" on a red wall, a red and black table setting with sex symbol Marilyn Monroe cushion, black and white posters with nudity, bold sexy red lips wallpaper at the washroom etc. Even the menu and drink list play with flirty words like Sickest Crabcakes in the World or "Kick Ass" Mac and cheese or Panty Dropper. Not to mention they play Frank Sinatra, my favourite jazz singer on earth. It already sounds fun dining at Strip House.

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.

Ruth's Chris Steak House - Best Steak in Hong Kong

Price: $$$$

Cravingness: ★★★★★

I had always considered Ruth's Chris as a fancy steakhouse given its price, but found they aren't going the fancy style but a happy cosy steakhouse style. In several localised steakhouse in HK, you will find 'black pepper sauce' along with the steaks, but in Ruth's Chris Steakhouse the best sauce to go with your steak is Butter, Salt and Pepper. A topnotch steak does not require any sauce as itself can already provide the best taste and mouthfeel that one could get.

Wooloomooloo | A Panoramic View of The Beautiful Vic Harbour

Dinning in Wooloomooloo was an impulsive decision, we did not make any reservations nor research on the menu ahead of visit. There was vacant tables on a normal weekday, but the nice spots - window seats and the roof top was fully reserved. Since the purpose wasn't for a romantic dine out as I was with my family, I decided to focus more on other aspects e.g. services and their dishes.

Craft Steak | Juicy Nice Steaks

Super Monday again! I love Mondays as I could always enjoy more food with less price. Today, we brought my parents along with me to Craft Steak in Soho, which I reckoned is a very decent steakhouse.

There are two dinning sessions in Craft Steak, one from 6.30 - 8.15, another from 8.45 - closed. So we made our reservation at 8.45. When we arrived to the restaurant, the waiter said they do not have any reservation record from us. At that moment, all empty table had already had a reserve card on them, we were afraid that we might have to disappoint my parents especially we had the dinner that late at night. Fortunately, after waited for about ten minutes, the waiter somehow got us a table to settle in.