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You have no idea how busy this week I am and it's not because of blogger event, but my personal schedule for those closing restaurant. And on the closing in this week list, there are two from the same dining group, The Press Room and The Pawn (actually, it is just closed temporarily for renovation). The Press Room, the casual FrenchEuropean restaurant on Hollywood Road, will run till this Friday, thus I have already no chance for their weekend brunch menu, while I still have time for set lunch, which is what I'm going to say something now and here.The offered $154 for 2course and $168 for 3course from Monday to Friday lunch time (12nn to 3pm). Three starts, five main courses and two desserts (some needs extra payment to be selected) and an extra purchase of one glass of white/red wine. You can have your business lunch with colleagues/ clients/ family members/ friends or even alone like a king/queen in their spacial dining space, and they offers an Allday bar concept next to the entrance. I love the classic decoration and furniture in the restaurant; the fake kerosene lamp, the slightly 'smoked' paintings and especially the dark brown sofa form up a old gentleman style.For the set lunch, we were not so interested in the starts, and luckily we made the right decision of 2course which is more than enough for a normal girl's stomach.Warm French bread, the fluffy and warm center part has a high similarity of Italian basil bread, which has a slightly wet and condensed texture, but meanwhile it has the feature of crispy and rough bread 'skin'. Dip black vinegar, or have a little butter without salt, we just finish the whole plate in one second without considering calorie, fat, those kind annoying stuff.The presentation of salad is awesome! Totally a giant volcano of greens but not as raw salad, it is slightly grilled to be stomachfriendly, noseattractive and still healthy. I and my friend were really in those largely cut mushroom, while it seems too big to have an adverse effect on the softness and taste.My selection is more tasty by the way, and as my friend's comment, it makes her crossthink to the Chinese cuisine, because the mixture of shredded chicken with leek and the salty tasty sauce. To me, it is less impressive for the less western taste. The Parmesan is nice as looking, and the sauce has a strong cheese taste for sure, while it is just cheese but not unique in flavor. The combination of too much chicken slices and leek does give me illusion that I'm having a dish of fried rice with chicken slices in a Chinese restaurant.Both of us chose brownie for a sweet ending, and they didn't disappoint us. It is a kind of condensed and heavy expression of chocolate brownie with less flour in the processing. With a high level of sweetness, the fresh fruits and light cream as toppings are the best accompanies.In general, the set lunch doesn't impress me a lot, and compared to the multiple set lunch choices in Central and Soho area, it might be a little overpricing upon the quality it offers.

貴價all day breakfast, 唔係幾值, around $2xx~個all day breakfast唯一亮點係啡色大舊類似薯餅嘅野, 出面好鬆脆, 入面軟身, 好香好味!!另外有舊黑色物體, 估極估唔到係乜, 又唔瓜類芋頭類, 味道質感奇怪, 最後問侍應原來係鴨血 😓老公叫嘅scramble eggs, 好得, 熟得啱啱好, 唔一pat pat但又有蛋汁; 我嘅煎蛋就好普通, 其他包/火腿etc都普通~想叫柸無酒精飲品, 但個侍應回答錯, 呢柸野飲都有酒tonic, 唔啱飲 😓

荷李活道有很多西餐廳, The Press Room 是其中一間比較出名的, 由其老外眼中, 正因為這個原因, 於是和友人到此了解品嘗。

平日午市都幾滿坐, 老外和本土食客六四比, 因樓底高, 坐得比較舒服, 點了午餐, 侍者先給 spring water, 後來才知要收費 ($80), 先上前菜, 名稱忘記了, 水準一般, 比較酸口, 友人要了湯, 口感不俗。

主菜要了蜆肉 Risotto, 偏硬的飯, 而海鮮味一般, 不算好也不算差。

烤牛仔肉, 友人說水準不俗, 要 medium 有medium, 有牛味。

Dessert 要了芝士餅, 整個午餐這個食得最開心, 味道很清新, 不容易吃膩。

要飲料要另加錢, 沒有要, 約$200每人有點不值得。

星期六要與LR早午餐，心中沒有計劃要到哪一間餐廳，在半山走上走落，看見The Press Room人不多便進去。

Brunch time again with LR, but this time I didn't plan ahead which restaurant to go. Wandering around the midlevels, I came across The Press Room and found it's only halffull. We decided to give it a try.The Press Room樓底頗高，裝潢走向較高貴的路線，晚上來吃飯一定很有情調。

週六的下午陽光照進餐廳內是另一番風味。

待應很有禮貌的帶我們進去坐下，我便仔細的研究Brunch Menu。

Brunch Menu選擇不少，一般的早午餐項目如eggs benedict/florentine/royale、french toast、all day breakfast、croque monsieur/madame、omelette、數款不同的sandwiches都有。

價位在100160元左右。

當中其實我最想吃的是"Homard benedict"，即龍蝦benedict！可是我未有那般豪爽的用238元吃一份benedict，所以只好作罷。

The decoration of The Press Room is one of the classy style, one that is fit for romantic date night. Atmosphere at the Saturday afternoon is different with the soft sunshine lighting up the restaurant. The waiter politely led us to our seats and I started perusing the brunch menu. A wide variety of brunch options are available such as eggs benedict/florentine/royale, french toast, all day breakfast, croque monsieur/madame, omelette, various sandwiches etc. "Homard benedict" caught my eye, it's lobster benedict, but I wasn't prepared to pay $238 for just a brunch item...Salmon & Cod Burger ($138) 幾乎每一檯都有人點至少一客burger，我也點了一份。

嘩，這份魚柳burger很高呢。

麵包都漲了起來，底部的生菜十分新鮮及堅挺，生菜上的蕃茄片亦是一片厚的。

旁邊則放了一堆薯條。

把burger切下，便往口裡放。

其實麵包雖看似很大，但以空氣漲大的成份居多，但不是說它不好吃，特別是底的麵包烘至微脆香口，很好！生菜及蕃茄非常新鮮，前者爽脆後者鮮甜，如以它們作沙律一定很美味。

魚柳的部分比較熱氣，但勝在不油膩，但如可以大塊一點更好(我比較貪心。

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薯條一般，沒有太大的意見。

I noticed that nearly every table had ordered a burger, so LR and I followed suit. As you can see, the burger was very "tall". The lettuce at the bottom was fresh and was able to hold up the tomato and the fish fillet. Fries were placed on the side.Although the bun looked huge, it's actually filled with air. Well, by no way I mean it's not good coz the bun was good! It's toasted to perfection with a bit of a crisp. The lettuce and tomato were fresh and sweet and would have been perfect for a salad. The fish fillet was what we called "hot air", but luckily it's not oily at all. It would have been better if it had been larger (may be I am just being greedy...). The fries were okay, not much to comment on.French Toast ($89) 其實我在waffle和french toast之間掙扎的好一會兒，兩款都想吃呀。

不過很早前在IFC的Open Kitchen吃過它的french toast覺得不錯，所以想吃一吃The Press Room的以作比較。

At first I had difficulty in deciding between waffle and french toast as I wanted both. But since I had tried the french toast at Open Kitchen in IFC before and quite like it, I decided to try the one here in The Press Room to see which one was better.結果是，還不錯呢。

我才疏學淺，實在不知為何french toast此等甜吃會配以煙肉，遲些去google一下。

French toast可算得上為外脆內軟，maple syrup下的份量剛好，由麵包吸了進去，不會太甜。

唯一不足的是份量不多，如可以有2塊toast的話會比較值。

畢竟索價85元。

And the conclusion is... the one here was also quite good. Another thing is I never really know why french toast, being a sweet item, is matched with bacon, a savory item. Probably gonna google it some time later. Back to the toast, it's nicely done with a golden colour on the outside. It absorbed the maple syrup without being too soggy or too sweet. The only downside was that there was only one toast, since it's a $85 dish, having two toast would have been much more appropriate.Tea 吃飽後當然要茶或咖啡，用茶壺上，好不別緻。

但其實只是大眾化品牌的茶包，期望不用太大。

Tea after the food was definitely a must and here the tea came with a teapot. But the tea bag was just a common brand, not much to expect here.食物質素不錯，環境舒適，雖然價錢偏貴了些少，但可以在悠閒的環境慢享食物並與朋友談天說地，The Press Room也不失為一個好選擇。

Setting aside the tea, I quite like the food here with the great atmosphere, though the price was not cheap. Having said this, I would definitely say The Press Room is a nice place to hang out with friends, looking forward to visiting again!

It is my girlfriend's treat and she let me pick one of the 2 restaurants she chose.  I ended up picking this place.We had reservation at 8pm and got there on time.  The server took us to a table with half couch.  The tables are quite close to each so we could clearly hear what people said next table.We first ordered some drinks.  I had a bottled beer and my girlfriend had a Margarita.  The focus of the menu was the chef special.  They also offered burgers, steak, pasta and other seafood items but we just ordered from the chef's special.The place was fairly dark to a point I think it was overdone.  I could barely see some of the ingredients in my plate.They served the bread right after we ordered drinks.  The bread was fairly good with butter.We ordered 2 green salads to start and for main courses, we had seafood languini and whole seabass.My girlfriend had the seabass.  The fish was very fresh and juicy.  For people don't like the fish taste, you should not order this.  Other than some herbs and salt, there was nothing extra added to the fish.  It is all about tasting the original fish taste.I had the seafood languini.  The seafood came with prawn (1), scallop (1), pan fried seabass (1), mussel (67).  The scallop was really fresh but there was only one piece.  For the other seafood, it was average.  One of the mussels went bad and ruined my overall comment on this dish.  Nothing was special about the sauce.  The languini was overcooked and too soft.  Overall service was average.  We had to ask twice to order and twice to get the check.  

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