Dinner at Neighborhood

Happy weekend!  This Friday night, we went to check out Neighborhood, a restaurant nestled off of an alleyway/park behind Hollywood Road.  It's a European fusion restaurant, but with mostly a French sensibility.  Overall, the food was tasty and innovative, but I felt like the portions were really pricey for the small portion sizes.

Potato and octopus salad.

 Padron peppers with mustard sauce.

 Amazing, truffle chicken wings, just delicious.

 Mushrooms and snails, an interesting combo.  This was an earthy and juicy dish and so lovely.

 The warm vegetables served in an "Alain Ducasse" style, topped with truffle flakes.

 A really tasty flank steak - I had to be "that" person who sent it back to the kitchen and asked if they could cook it to a medium, but even then it was capital d Delicious.

 

This was the grouse that we had to pre-order because it takes a really long time to cook and prepare.  To be honest, I have no idea why it would take so long to cook, as the grouse was served so rare (like the interior was a deep, dark purple).  I tentatively sucked on one of the tiny legs and one of the tiny wings, which were more fully cooked, but I've decided that grouse isn't to my liking.  The meat felt oddly bitter and a bit stringy.

 We also got a white bait stew, which was topped with shaved garlic and had little chopped chili peppers in it.

 And finally, to round out the dinner, we got a tripe gratin, which was... tripe-y.  Michael had a little bite at my insistence and I'm pretty sure he tried not to gag, hah!  The rest of the table ate it with gusto.

Neighborhood
Man Hing Lane
Central, Hong Kong
+852 2617 0891