I have decided to try it. My mom and I walked in and we were greeted very nicely by all the waiters and waitresses. The restaurant's decoration has this 70's Euro style. The floor tiles are beautiful, they are colored with red, yellow, white and green with a circular cross shape. It immediately transformed the whole atmosphere into a very old school cafe. On the right side, a dozen or more pastries sit in an opened glass fridge, waiting for people to enjoy them. They all look so delicious it makes you drool. They also have a mini bar, with many liquors on shelves and a few coffee machines sitting on the counter. The restaurant is not big, but the petite tables they use made it seem very spacious.
When we sat down, the waitress came to us and walked us through their lunch sets menu. They have appetizer with either a soup or salad, then main course with the choice of beef, chicken, fish or seafood and at last dessert with a cup of coffee or tea. The total price is around $200 HKD (excluding 10% charge and water charge if you drink water.) It is definitely an expensive restaurant comparing to the others since many lunch set costs at most $130 in the area. But we were still excited cause the menu was very attractive.
They served us bread before any food comes out. As you can see, the bread has agnès b.'s signature logo "b" on it. It's very creative and special. The bread smells fresh and was very warm. The butter melted right in the bread.
Both of us ordered salad because it sounded very tempting. It is green salad with chicken and herb patty. It uses vinegar as its dressing with balsamic sauce as a little flavor for the chicken and herb patty. It gives you this fresh and healthy after taste.
I had chicken. It comes with a very rich mushroom sauce. The chicken meat was very tender considered it was frozen chicken. There's potato and a little more green salad as side dishes.
My mom had the fish fillet. It was cooked with a buttery sauce, very smooth and creamy. The side dish mash potato was very good. It was cooked with other ingredients so that it wasn't too heavy with a potato taste.
Here is the hazelnut cake as one of the desserts. It was decorate very prettily with cherry sauce and chocolate sauce. The hazelnut taste is very distinct. There is little biscuit crusts around the cake, which takes a little of the strong hazelnut taste away.
This is milk chocolate moose with dark chocolate sauce. A very heavy chocolate tasting cake. The bottom of the cake is a crunchy biscuit, something to chew on. The cake was decorated nicely and it has a little card with the Eiffel Tower on it, representing Paris, France.
This restaurant is a place I definitely recommend. Although it may seem to be a little pricey, the food quality was worth it. I was not only impressed by the food but also very charmed by the restaurants' decorations and atmosphere. It felt like I was in Europe, somewhere in Paris. I think agnès b.'s goals of spreading the wearing and eating living styles of French have succeeded in Hong Kong. This restaurant's service was not bad as well, but I think it could be better. One thing I wasn't exactly fond of was that it charges us for water. I do not believe the place opens up almost 300 or 400 bottles of water everyday, it's probably just tab water refiled in the bottles. $50 HKD for a bottle of water is very expensive, almost a rip off. If you didn't want to spend that extra little money, you can wait for the coffee or tea after the meal. However, in general, I definitely recommend this place, especially for couples for just a little cute luncheon or a romantic dinner.
Eat Up!
Michelle
PS. Le Pain Grillé stands for "toasted bread." The Reason agnès b. named it Le Pain Grillé because bread is a daily food for every French!
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