El Born — Restaurant in Hong Kong Island

I fell into a cheap tourist trap. If you love advertising you will love the commercials that play on the stereo every 3 minutes because this place uses Spotify Free.

Dishes ordered:

Grilled shishito peppers (they called them Padrón here) - the only decently Barcelona-styled tapa that they didn’t mess up

Calamari - this was worse than beer pub calamari, the batter was thicker than the calamari and rock hard, I had to peel off half of it; they gave only 1 teaspoon of aioli so of course I had to ask for more (we received exactly one teaspoon more)

Mussels in lemongrass white wine cream sauce - I’m sorry but I’m used to bigger, juicier PEI mussels so this was a miss for me, but good job on the sauce

Crab fettucine - what they missed by overcooking the pasta beyond al dente by 2 minutes they made up for with a mammoth portion, so yay - we got twice the soggy noodles...

Came here Monday afternoon. Great paella and red sangria but they were out of chorizo! They asked us to come back...we did today and are so wrapped that we did. The sweet corn and chorizo fritters are great....but the standout dish is the meatballs with spicy sauce and chorizo. We ended up ordering this 3 times !! We have eaten at many fine dining Spanish restaurants, but this is by far the best meatball dish we have ever had. Estralla on tap is great as you would expect it to be. The churros with chocolate ice cream are a delight. Service is prompt , especially if you are lucky enough to get Jackie to look after you and the manager here makes you feel at home. If you are in Hong Kong and crave some Spanish delights , don't miss...

Service was great but the food was generally bad. We had a basic brunch and the dishes were all not good. Waffle and chicken, waffle is terrible, chicken was OK but was one chicken wing and a small drumstick.the batter for the chicken wasn't great and it was bland. Smoked salmon and eggs was exactly how you would expect it and was average. The big breakfast was also just OK. The hashbrown tasted like it was fried in old oil. The sausage and bacon were tasty. I was starving and ate pretty much everything the rest of the family left behind. Also, their slow cooked ox tongue needs better seasoning but the tongue itself was fine. Wouldn't return. Casual place though with great service but shame...