Boulangerie is a new French patisserie that opened recently in Kennedy Town. Providing lush French pastries and sweets, Boulangerie is the perfect location for afternoon tea or a lazy Sunday.
Bistro du Vin fully restores our faith in classic, traditional French fare. When it’s done right, there’s just no comparison. This tiled-floor space with bentwood chairs and chalkboards on the the walls is as Parisian as it gets here in Hong Kong. It’s owned by the Les Amis group, which also runs Piccolo Pizzeria right next door (and fine dine Cepage in Wan Chai).
Recently opened in Kennedy Town, Bistro du Vin is a Parisian style café-restaurant bringing you authentic homemade French cuisine. The menu includes a wide variety of specials and signature dishes ranging from homemade pork and duck pates, farmhouse-style duck rillettes, bouillabaisse and braised beef check and of course for dessert, Grand Marnier soufflé with vanilla ice cream.
Recently opened in Kennedy Town, Bistro du Vin is a Parisian style café-restaurant bringing you authentic homemade French cuisine. The menu includes a wide variety of specials and signature dishes ranging from homemade pork and duck pates, farmhouse-style duck rillettes, bouillabaisse and braised beef check and of course for dessert, Grand Marnier soufflé with vanilla ice cream.
Nestled in Kennedy Town, Davis is a pleasant tapas restaurant. We sampled a couple of signature items, which we found overwhelming in every sense of the word. The portions were huge and the food highly seasoned, accompanied by extremely flavorful sauces. A good example is the nearly perfect grilled beef salad. The beef was cooked well: seared on the outside and rare inside. All was well apart from the dressing that threw off the balance of the whole dish.
Nestled in Kennedy Town, Davis is a pleasant tapas restaurant. We sampled a couple of signature items, which we found overwhelming in every sense of the word. The portions were huge and the food highly seasoned, accompanied by extremely flavorful sauces. A good example is the nearly perfect grilled beef salad. The beef was cooked well: seared on the outside and rare inside. All was well apart from the dressing that threw off the balance of the whole dish. We couldn’t help but feel that they would do well to tone down the urge to over-sauce, over-season and overdo it and just let the basic ingredients shine through.
The Pizza-Q group is a three-chain franchise with two other locations in Ap Lei Chau and Causeway Bay. Pizza-Q K-Town used to be a takeout stall on Davis Street, squished between a bunch of bigger, brighter and louder venues. Thank goodness for its move to the calmer Hau Wo Street, because now we can actually have a proper sit-down meal and enjoy the food while it’s piping hot. The décor here might be simple and the plates might be from Ikea (we have the exact same set at home), but that’s pretty much what you’d expect from a mom-and-pop operation.
Piccolo is Les Amis Group’s latest Hong Kong project, and is the first of its two branches to conquer the bubbling pizza market.
The façade here is all “neighborhood eatery,” with laid-back furniture, high tables near the front and a wine bar in the middle, all finished off with warm lights and tiled floors. There’s a massive two-ton gas pizza oven in the kitchen at the back of the restaurant, which diners can view through a glass wall.
This two-year old restaurant owned by local celebrity Cecilia Cheung’s mother is just as popular now as it was when it first opened. Crowds flock to this scenic harborside resto on a nightly basis, so reservations are highly recommended.
Harbour Restaurant flaunts its catch in outdoor tanks and an easy-breezy environment that goes great with beer. The highlights are obviously marine-based, but you’ll find a host of other classic Chinese dishes here, too.
Bistronomique is supposed to be a casual cousin of the much-praised On Lot 10 on Gough Street, with a slightly different vibe and a more local clientele. We walked into this narrow, high-ceilinged diner, nestled in between the bars of Davis Street, and settled right in front of the chef’s workstation (a cute and functional setup considering the modest size of the place).
We must have walked past this place hundreds of times without even thinking about going in. The too-large bar area and tables crammed into a small, narrow space are hardly inviting. The location is weird too—nestled in among a handful of garages on the wrong side of K-Town, La Baguette hardly seems like an ideal place for a laid-back European restaurant. But we should have given it a chance far earlier—we had no idea it was in fact the district’s best-kept secret.
With its helpful and exuberant staff, we wish we could give Zig Zag, a friendly neighborhood pizzeria, a more positive review. Sadly, there’s little here to go out of your way for on the strange yet limited menu that’s made up of pizza, pasta, omelets, and weirdly, cheese fondue. It was busy on a Saturday night—so busy in fact that the supposedly “must-try” beef tenderloin had already sold out. So we went for the tomato and mozzarella salad instead—hey, the place touts itself as an French/Italian bistro, so the salad must be pretty good, right? Wrong.
