Sharon M.
Yelp
I'm gonna channel Mackelmore a la Thrift Shop for a sec. This is a review of the lunch at their restaurant, which had pretty average food....but shit it was 99 cents! Uh I mean $118! HKD $118 (CAD $20) for a 4 course meal so Mira Moon, you get a 3.5! Even though the food is probably more of a 3. Now maybe it's because I went during Restaurant Week, a week where fancy restaurants all over Hong Kong serve up promotional prix fixe versions of their menu, but I wasn't blown away. Along with the traditional Prix Fixe, they also offered a Tapas promotion, choose 2 from their list for HKD $150 (CAD $25).
My lunch crew all opted for the regular Prix Fixe that treated us to:
1) Amaebi shrimp with mango gazpacho jelly, shaved pistachio, and crouton - or one small shrimp on a tablespoon. Didn't taste any mango or pistachio, but we did debate over what the round hard thing at the top was. It tasted like plain, dry cracker. It was the crouton.
2) Spring bean salad with Chorizo crisps and Calamansi vinaigrette - Calamansi, a Filipino lemon apparently. Makes sense, because the salad was pretty sour. Little too much dressing, with not a lot of other things to balance it out. Chorizo chips were great though.
3) Surf part of Surf and Turf consisting of pan fried salmon with fried potatoes and onions in Mojo Verde - Pretty good, salmon was moist and potatoes were tasty. The Mojo Verde was a savoury green sauce.
4) Turf part consisting of grilled Australian grain-fed sirloin with fried lily flower and lotus root in Chinese Lo Shui sauce - Good flavour from the sauce, but that cow was chewy. Don't know if it's the cut of the meat or the cook of it, because it seemed better done than the medium rare it was supposed to be. Also it was tiny and I swear the piece my neighbour got was much bigger.
5) Flan caramel with aged citrus peel with grilled citrus and whipped cream - That flan was bland. Which is unfortunate, because the overall dessert wasn't bad. I enjoyed the grilled citrus and whipped cream. I know Asian desserts are lighter and I usually like them that way, but this one was a bit too light.
For a hotel that boasts a HKD $1500+ (CAD $250+) nightly rate, the restaurant and bar certainly reflects that level of high roller status. It's a beautiful space with fantastic service that caters well to both locals and foreigners. Even the toilets are made of wood! Overall, good place to pretend to be fancy without spending the actual fancy dollars. Unfortunately, the food wasn't on the same level of hype. Good, but not great. But shit, it was $118!!!
(27/100) - 2017