Taking a break from playing catch-up on writing about my foodventures in the past year... I just wanted to write about a few recent places I visited during Restaurant Week this month.
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| Menu |
For those who aren't familiar, a select few restaurants in
Hong Kong participated in Restaurant Week whereby they design a menu for
a given price/category; and customers book in advance (through diningcity) to try out the specially designed menu.... La Parole was one such restaurant; and dinner was priced at $428 for four courses.
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| Amuse Bouche |
this was a very odd one. not sure any of us enjoyed it... but it wasn't part of the menu so...
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| Lobster & peach salad |
This was the only dish I was disappointed with. The shell had no meat when you reversed it; it was simply plated for decoration. I have a pet peeve for inedible garnishes.... and something so clearly inedible should not be on the plate! I wish they were more generous with the lobster too - I could only taste the peaches and there was no dressing / particular juiciness to the peaces, and I could see/taste at
most 2-3 small dices of lobster.
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| Seared foie gras with foie gras pate in between cherry |
Foie gras fared a lot better but the portion was measly... The dice-sized pate between the cherry rolled in sesame seeds was very enjoyable too.
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| Truffle and mushroom.. |
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| with consomme! |
Amazing aroma and lovely truffle/earthy taste...
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| seafood, foam... |
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| with consomme! |
This seafood version had some scallops and shrimp... light and lovely.
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| Lamb cutlets with saffron sauce and crushed potatoes |
For my main I opted for the lamb. Cooked perfectly medium it was a decent piece of meat. The potatoes were actually mash so I just queried the description "crushed" on the menu...
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| Grilled truffle beef with tomato |
This was P's chosen main. When it arrived we both thought "tacky" - plating wise it sure was. We're in 2013!!! But otherwise, delicious piece of medium rare beef fillet though we couldn't taste any truffle...
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| Sabayon with raspberries and cookie |
My dessert was this custard with a small floating island meringue. Raspberries very fresh and cookie was delicious according to my foodie friends who so kindly ate mine for me ;)
Encased in this "chocolate surprise" was some blueberry compote and bit of pastry... a sweet and short ending to a four course meal.
Although our four courses had come to an end, we were generously given these macs to taste - apparently they were a new product; but I am keen to see a lot of improvement before they start selling them! These had a nice chew but flavours weren't distinguishable enough and were missing the delicate crisp shell good macs should have...
Food: ♥♥♥
Service: ♥♥♥♥
Price: HK$428 pp for the Restaurant Week menu which I understand is not too dissimilar from their regular dinner set menus.
Address: 3/F, The Pemberton,
22-26 Bonham Strand, Sheung Wan
T: +852 2436 4099
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