Grappa's Cellar — Restaurant in Hong Kong Island

Restaurant Week menu at Grappa’s Cellar

Grappa’s is one of the long-standing Italian restaurants in HK with over 30 years of history, so we came with high expectations to try out “high-quality Italian food” at their new site at Lee Garden 🥹

Not sure is it because it’s restaurant week menu, I could not feel there’s Italian soul nor the authenticity as they branded themselves for food that we have tried.

➡️ Starting from the Burrata and prosciutto, basically it just tastes like what you can get from any cafe or bar at a lower price point.

Starter: Italian burrata, medley tomatoes and fresh basil 18 months prosciutto di San Daniele and melon (plating looks awful 😢)

➡️ The pasta doesn’t look nice to be honest, taste average but won’t waste my quota to consume carbs 🫠

Pasta: Trofie pasta with homemade sausage and anchovies, spicy broccoli

➡️ For main courses, braised beef cheek was average, nothing surprising and the baked sea bass… its mushy and rubbery texture is like any frozen fish🫤

Main course: Baked sea bass with basil lemon crust, pesto tossed vegetables Braised beer cheek in Nebbiolo sauce, creamy polenta and vegetables

➡️ Desserts are probably the best one in this meal, normal stuffs but at least taste good 🤭

Dessert: Grappa’s tiramisu Traditional Italian panna cotta

💬 Luckily their services and ambiance are good. Not sure if they’re serving lower quality food for the restaurant week menu, but won’t disagree that at this price point including a glass of Prosecco as a start, can’t expect too much. But likely won’t go again, prefer Pici 200% more if you ask me 🥹🥹

📍: Grappa’s Cellar - Causeway Bay, HK 💰: HK$438+10% (Restaurant week menu) 🎖: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3/5)

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My family was at Grappas cellar on Father’s Day with our 2 young boys. We were verbally and racially abused by a man at the bar. The staff did nothing and so we felt compelled to leave the restaurant half way through our meal as it was not an environment we wanted our children to be in. The manager did make us pay our bill and thus sided with the abusive man. It was a shocking and unacceptable experience.

We made our story about this incident public and complained to senior management of the owner. The owner, within a short period of time, has given a sincere apology. They also committed to i) train their staff to ensure such a thing doesn’t happen again in their restaurant; ii) make a charitable donation to a HK based charity; iii) discipline the manager from that night; and iv) temporarily ban the abusive customer. Although the experience from that night was distressing, the restaurant management have clearly taken the situation very seriously and acted in a very positive manner to make amends and ensure such a situation does not occur in their...

Wow, what a horrible experience. This restaurant has gone downhill.

We were guests on Friday evening (November 19, 2021).

We ordered meatballs, calamari & prawns, gnocchi, chicken steak.

My wife received her starter and main course together, and I had to wait about 25 minutes until I got any of my food. My starter and main course came at the same time.

The meatballs and gnocchi were ok.

The calamari and prawns was super greasy. It's supposed to come with lemon, but they deep fried that too.

The chicken steak was disgusting. It was deep fried instead of grilled. This is beyond lazy - this is a kitchen who does not care.

So that's three issues:

Food comes randomly, main course is deep fried instead of grilled, and the lemon for our calamari is deep fried (how does this even happen?)

The food was so greasy my wife and I felt a little unwell afterwards.

I understand it's Friday evening and the restaurant is a little busy, but you can't treat your paying customers like this.

Incredibly disappointing and we will never...