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Plebian prices, premier plates: Eat at Cepage for HK$488
If we gave up a month's worth of Starbucks, we'd be able to eat a three-course meal at Cepage and still have enough for a taxi ride home
Tête de veau... eggplant caviar... Coquelet de Bresse... Cepage, that Michelin-starred French restaurant that recently made it onto the San Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants list, is thanking their fans with a bargain set menu priced HK$488. We can't afford to buy an apartment, don't have the cash for diamonds, but we can still aspire to save up enough for an award-winning meal at a "tycoon's canteen."
Available only on Saturdays, the set menu also comes at HK$678 if we opt for wine pairings for individual dishes. The gourmet factor is high, degree of snobbishness low, making this the bang-for-your-buck meal of the month. Here's the special menu that will be on offer until August.
Appetizer: A choice of Boston lobster salad with green apple gelée and crème fraiche, or Wagyu beef carpaccio with marinated white asparagus, aged parmesan and summer truffle.
Wine pairing: Palmer Champagne.
Second course: Bouillabaisse seafood stew in puff pastry.
Main course: A choice of pan-seared, line-caught snapper and crunchy tête de veau, layered with baguette, eggplant caviar and datterino tomato-pine nut dressing, or a serving for two of roasted French free range chicken, Coquelet de Bresse, with lemon confit and rosemary, roasted pearl onion, new potato and courgette.
Wine pairing: Misha "The High Note" Pinot Noir, 2008.
Dessert: Mascarpone mousse with marinated strawberry and elderflower sorbet.
Wine pairing: La Spinetta Moscato d’ Asti, Quaglia 2009
