La Cabane Wine Bistro — Restaurant in Hong Kong Island

Restaurant Review📝

Food🍽 🐄Tete de moine Cow Cheese Served in Flower Shape. Delicate "flower tips" danced on the tongue. Silky cheesed cone smooth the tongue's nerves and made me want unlimited more. Beautiful as flowers, Delicate like silk. Juz like a real flower texture

🐑Pave Cendre Strong Goat Milk's flavour illustrated that we're in the greens slightly sour aroma which can definitely arise appetite

🧀ROQUEFORT Strong taste of blue cheese the delicacy of the whie part of cheese had a significant contrast from the blued, molded parts strong taste originally, but when that's in a fragmented way, still strong, with delicacy

🦆Duck Rillette Mild Duck Flavor, quite oily Best with toast, quite greasy when it's alone

🐷Sliced Ham forgot the name yet couldn't forget its smooth & thin texture with satisfying & pleasant dried pork aroma & savouriness

🥚Scotch Egg wrapped with minced Lamb🐑 Half-boiled egg with running yolk Minced lamb🐑was just in its best texture & taste. Moist, savoury & with satisfying lamb flavors

Pissaladiere - Caramelized Onion🧅Galette Best Caramelized Onion🧅Puff Pastry in town Light & Crispy with Obvious Flour Aroma Caramelized Onion🧅was in its Best Sweetness level, still have a slight crunch The best part was the chef added anchovies🐟to balanced the sweetness which was a definitely punching act

🌹Rose Cream Burlee🥚with Vanilla Short Bread🍞 Just like putting a bunch of Roses🌹in the mouth. Really strong yet pleasant taste of roses🌹 Crunchy & thin sugar crust, silky & warm egg🥚Perfectly matched with the unique & elegant Rose🌹aroma & taste. Vanilla short bread were crunchy but not too hard to bite. Juz in its perfect texture with pleasant vanilla aroma. Mildly sweet only Every mouth made me thought "the world was so adorable"

Ambience💞 super cozy place Brilliant server Leona who was very familiar with every product in the bistro. All the cheese, wine, food, dessert she recommended was stunning and wow us She was beautiful, cheerful, knowledgeable, friendly, sincere, professional She told us the chef is the best dessert maker...

La Cabane is a French Wine Bar & Bistro on Hollywood Road that has been a popular expat venue over the past decade or so. During the past year as the pandemic has raged on, they have become a good take-away and delivery meal option as well. Opening hours are 11.30 until 10pm but closed on Sundays. Indoor seating is limited but atmospheric, available until 6pm while dining restrictions are in place and later when they are not in effect.

We recently ordered from La Cabane through deliveroo and were quite happy with what was sent over. Everything was packaged very nicely and arrived within 20 minutes of being ordered.

On the occasion, we very much enjoyed their pork pate dumplings, a French & Chinese fusion like appetiser with Comte emulsion and Szechuan Oil. This was an unexpected ingredient combination that worked rather well. Equally enjoyed was the traditional homemade foie gras, which came with an adequate amount of bread. The foie gras was a tad bit sweet but tasted just lovely. Perhaps most enjoyed on the evening was the order of stuffed artichokes with goat cheese cream. The artichoke texture was smooth and soft and the taste delicious. All of these were worth reordering through delivery again.

We also ordered the roasted duck main with sweet potatoes, kale and orange. While the dish quality was good, this order didn't work as well as a delivery choice. In hindsight, this is a main best taken in due course, being eaten right out of the kitchen not half an hour or so later at home. Would happily order again at the wine bar under normal dining conditions.

In the end, we were overall very happy with delivery from La Cabane and will happily order from them again in the near future. Of last note, they have a respectable collection of wines on offer. However, what is available through deliveroo is rather limited. If you want to avail of a their wider range, consider take-away from La Cabane instead...

Booked one week in advance, my idea was to bring some non-French colleagues for lunch to try a French restaurant. What a disappointment. Spent 90 minutes in the restaurant, 40 minutes of waiting before we got served. Some of us ordered steak, asked for different degrees of doneness, ended up being told that we couldn't choose. Asked politely for the starters to be served so that we could stop waiting and start eating, got told that starters come with the main dish, which doesn't make any sense. Found a hair in the fish, they replaced the dish by a different one, kind of imposed because they had no more stock. Got our desserts before the cheese, which again doesn't make any sense, especially for a so-called French restaurant. Asked for the bill obviously dissatisfied but without making a scene. The least one can do in this situation as a restaurant owner is to make a goodwill gesture. Instead, I was given the bill without a word, without a compensation, like nothing happened. I had to demand a conciliatory gesture myself, which was given to me, still without a word nor a look. As a French myself, I'm wondering if it was deliberate, to let customers experience a full immersion in a mediocre Parisian restaurant. Food taste was average. Definitely not up to standard, at some point I was looking for hidden cameras thinking it was a prank. What will remain from this poor experience: gave a terrible image of French restaurants and my colleagues won't ask me for restaurants ever again. Won't set foot there...