29/07/2016
'Ciao Chow - Italian Cafeteria
中環蘭桂坊德己立街30-32號加州大廈地舖
G/F, California Tower, 30-32 D'Aguilar Street, Lan Kwai Fong, Central
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/dining-right-in-the-middle-of-lkf-e2624789
I was too lazy to walk any further for dinner so stopped right here for dinner.
It was right in the middle of LKF.
The restaurant was big with an open kitchen.
For drinks, we had the Pineapple sage collins and the aged balsamic punch.
The pineapple sage was slightly spicy because there was black pepper in it.
Strangely, the aged balsamic punch tasted like coke because the vanilla and fig made it sweet.
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Started with the Gorgnozola Piemontese:
This was pieces of bread with Piemontese blue cheese layered with Mascarpone.
I absolutely loved it and needed more bread because the cheese was brilliant.
The bread was a bit like naan, some parts of it were crispy and some parts were chewy.
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Next we had two salads.
The first was Funghi which was brown mushrooms, arugula, celery, parmigiano reggiano dressed in vinaigrette.
The salad was quite grassy.
Then we had Panzanella which was cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions, capers, olives, basil, grilled bits of garlic bread drizzed in extra virgin olive oil.
I liked this salad because it was full of flavours from the tomatoes, capers and olives.
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For pizza, we had a basic Margherita which had San Marzano tomatoes, garlic, oregano and extra virgin olive oil.
Although it was simple, the tomatoes made it really delicious because they were quite tart.
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Our last main was the pasta which was more like bouillabase soup.
It had Sardinian petit pasta (Pastina) which are like cute pasta pellets with a firm texture.
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For dessert we finished with Tiramisu which was very creamy.
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