Da Domenico — Restaurant in Hong Kong Island

Please do not haemorrhage money here if you'd like to retain a positive mental image of Italian cuisine. If there's one wonder about this restaurant it's how it's managed to stay in business for so long.

The prawn pasta tastes like straight up sea brine. The minestrone barely fills up to half of the dish. They charge you hundreds for a slab of mozzarella. Absolutely everything, even a perfectly decent slab of beef, is doused in vinegar and olive oil. Anyone who has tasted meat in their life can tell you this is wholly unnecessary.

I have included no pictures on purpose because the plating was godawful for such an expensive...

Expensive but everything being served there is simply top-notch!

We enjoy each dish from the bread (forgot to take pic) to the seafood soup (a broth made from tons of seafood that looks watery but taste really flavorful) and an extremely tasty Bruschetta as the starters, followed by a pricy but mind-blowing pasta with baby squid!

The restaurant will share the soup and bruschetta for you (hence the portion shown in the pics is 50% only), while the pasta we can do the sharing ourselves.

Overall an...

Michelin star prices!! it’s not Michelin, BUT it beats many Michelin.

Chef brings Italy to you. So far best pastas I had in Asia. Tried lots of great Italian restaurants, most are good but it’s hard to make a memorable pasta or food. Had many great memories from my trips in Italy. This is closest and as good as some of the good ones in Italy.

Steak was really great as well. The only let down with their tiramisu. Another one of the items I would try in every...