The problem with Motorino is that it was supposed to be the pizza that would save us all. Authentic Naples style pizza! Straight from New York! It’s a little of both and perhaps more of the latter, if you ask me, though I don’t think it really matters. Food is always evolving and changing, authenticity something of a ghost.
Le Blanc
April 8th, 2013 § 0 comments § permalink
In a particular way, this French private kitchen gets things right.
If you’ve been to France, you may know what I’m talking about. There is a certain kind of restaurant (usually in the provinces but it exists in Paris, too), with dated decor and an overly ambitious chef whose well meaning creative impulses may result in, for example, a salad of roasted vegetables garnished with blueberries. Read more…
For Kee
March 26th, 2013 § 4 comments § permalink
I think that Hong Kong’s most photographed cat lives outside of this corner shop, leashed (contentedly as far as I can tell) under a table that supports a tin box whose purpose was mysterious to me until late one night when I saw someone get out of a truck and leave several loaves of sliced white bread inside.
Spring Deer
February 28th, 2013 § 0 comments § permalink
The Peking duck at Spring Deer is delicious.
The Bar at Café Gray Deluxe, Upper House
February 5th, 2013 § 0 comments § permalink
This is a bar for grownups.
Kitchen Sink 1.2.13
February 1st, 2013 § 1 comment § permalink
Food news, reviews, and good reads from HK and beyond. Today: An English take on xiao long bao, and where to go for hot pot. Read more…
West Villa
January 30th, 2013 § 0 comments § permalink
On a recent weekend, the Causeway Bay location of this mini-chain felt like an American restaurant on Mother’s Day, packed with families and scored with a steady din of voices and rattling dishes.
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Chicha
January 18th, 2013 § 0 comments § permalink
Pisco, a clear grape brandy, is the national drink of Peru, and the Pisco Sour is fitting and frothy emblem for this slick restaurant, which is, gastronomically speaking, Peru’s sole ambassador to Hong Kong. 
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Sijie Sichuan Dishes
January 14th, 2013 § 1 comment § permalink
This beloved Sichuan spot has decamped from its (frankly) sad Lockhart road apartment block berth to a considerably more restaurant-like space in the Bartlock Centre in Causeway Bay. But it hasn’t lost its soul.
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