The Baker & The Bottleman

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我生日 Staycation 正是住在合和中心附近的港島英迪格酒店 Indigo Hotel！ 第二日 Check out 及寄存行李後，我便走到灣仔利東街食早餐嘞！然後搭地鐵返工！早上的灣仔利東街，人來人往，忙於返工！早前，有食友推介過位於灣仔利東街的人氣餐廳 <The Baker & The Bottleman>！這裡佔地兩層，地下層設計簡約，上層別有洞天！Menu原來，平日早上還有 Croissant Combo，讓我可慳錢 $$ 呢！Croissant Combo $67Almond Croissant 杏仁牛角包 $40 好幾款牛角包口味當中，最吸引莫過於杏仁牛角包！  表面鋪滿杏仁片，外層香脆可口，包身鬆軟，同時散發牛油芳香！早餐就更抵食嘞！Monkey Bread Croissant with Orange, Chocolate, Hazelnut and Coffee Cream 香橙朱古力榛子咖啡酥 $30 表面加上不少榛子碎增添口感，淋上咖啡醬，包身質地跟牛角包大同小異，只是立體方形而已，我嫌整體較甜膩！Latte $45適合入口的水溫，不會熱到燙口，此外！咖啡香撲鼻，味道甘香醇厚！不加糖，跟甜美的包點好夾！ 繼續閱讀

[ The Baker and the Bottleman | 灣仔 ]I have wanted to come here for the longest time and today is finally the day I get to try out this bakery-by-day, bistro-by-night restaurant. I used to purchase from their bakery but the prices have drastically increased and thus my visits have stopped as I believe there are other bakeries in HK that sell similar products at a lower price. —— —— Bread Basket and Whipped Brown Butter $35 The bread basket consisted of two types of bread: sourdough and rosemary focaccia. Sourdough is very crusty with a nice soft interior, focaccia is extremely fluffy and flavourful. I had high hopes given they started as a bakery and the breads were good but the portion is seriously small and laughable. There are three thin and flimsy slices for both and the sourdough slices were literally the size of an iPhone 5 which confused me a lot as I know their sourdough loaves are pretty wide. The butter is delicious with the bread but there is way too little bread thus a lot of butter was unused. At the end of our meal, I asked for a small container to take it away so as to not waste it but they did not have any food containers and had to store that one tbsp of butter in a coffee cup.Don’t really recommend this dish as it’s truly not worth the price and it would be much wiser to buy a loaf for $25 in the bakery. If this wasn’t served hot, I would have definitely sent it back. —— —— Roasted Jerusalem Artichoke $130 Quite a steep price for a vegetable dish but artichokes are almost never seen in HK restaurants or even at the market so I always try to order it when I see it on the menu. They do a pretty decent version here with them being perfectly roasted with a slight char on the outside and silky, tender flesh. The smoked shallot puree compliments artichoke very well along with the crisp pear slices and herb oil. I also really enjoyed the artichoke chips on top which added a really pleasant texture as well as incorporating another layer of artichoke into the dish to really highlight this elusive ingredient. Portion isn’t too bad to share between two.—— —— Fish Sandwich $150 I remember the first time I saw this sandwich on my feed and it was only $100 😅 oh how time and inflation flies 🥲. Nonetheless, I had great expectations for this sandwich and needless to say, it lived up to the hype. A beautiful and thick piece of cod with a shatteringly thin and crisp beer-batter coating on a perfectly soft yet stable brioche bun lathered with a non-mayonnaise heavy tartar sauce that focuses more on the crunch of dill pickles and the grassy tarragon. Such a dreamy bite and the only flaw was the weak and underwhelming slice of cheese (supposedly red Leicester) which lacked flavour and did not contribute anything to the sandwich. One sandwich is okay to share between two but I could honestly eat one myself because it’s not too heavy. —— —— Crispy Smashed Potatoes, XO butter $75 Someone recommended me this before and I didn’t have high expectations but this turned out to be insanely good and delicious. The potatoes are so crispy on the outside thanks to the skin whilst the inside is so fluffy and tender with the strong, hearty potato flavour. The XO butter crisped up the edges of the potatoes so well and I love the crispy bits that decorate the top. These bits are quite salty and savory but having it with the tender potatoes is top-notch. These came after the fish sandwich but I knew it would taste really good with the fish sandwich so we (a group of two) ordered another one to have with the potatoes. Only for them to misunderstand my order and thought we wanted another bread basket. So we just gave up and ate the rest of the potatoes alone. A very generous portion (finally) which is satisfying for both my stomach and my wallet.—— —— Matcha Cookie, XL Chocolate Chip Cookie After our dinner, we were each given a choice of leftover sweets from their bakery. There was Matcha Cookie, their famous XL chocolate chip cookie, and chocolate doughnuts. The two of us got both cookies to try as it is only one per person. It was my first time trying their XL cookie and it is usually $55 for one so getting it for free here made it taste extra good 😁. The cookie is baked to perfection with an extremely chewy and caramelised base that isn’t too thin or thick but still has a crisped edge and tender middle. There aren’t too many chocolate chips which I wasn’t too mad about because the cookie base is so good. I do believe that some flaky salt on top would have made it better to balance out the sweetness. Love the size of this, we shared half and I saved half for the ride back home 😄. The matcha cookie did not taste matcha, only the slightest hint of tea at the centre of the cookie. It also did not look like matcha and was quite brown, like a regular cookie and the base tasted a lot like the chocolate chip base but with white chocolate chips instead which isn’t too sweet and added a nice softness. They added some salt on the top of this cookie which made it really balanced and delicious. Not a bad cookie but I think their XL cookie would be better for value and taste 🤭—— —— 推介 🙆🏻‍♀️💬 Overall, really enjoyed the food here but the service is definitely a sub-par aspect of the restaurant and needs improvements. I heard the service is much better than the floor staff were all foreigners (they are all locals now) and I agree as the one non-local waitress was the only accommodative and friendly one. I would be back for the fish burger and potatoes (and free cookies) because it was so good. Total was $420 for two people, reasonable for HK standards. 🗓 Revisit? ✅ ⭕️/ ❎ 繼續閱讀

🍪The Baker & The Bottleman📌皇后大道東 利東街地下G14-15號舖·朋友送來一塊巨型曲奇，來自灣仔利來街的麵包烘焙店The Baker & The Bottleman ，這𥚃是由英國米芝蓮大廚主理。Triple Valrhona Chocolate Cookie 🍪 用上濃濃的Valrhona 黑朱古力🍫製作而成，每塊都如碟子一樣大，鬆脆可口，比軟曲奇挺身，當然有一定甜度，送咖啡是最好不過，與人共享有幸福的感覺。 繼續閱讀

❀ The Baker & The Bottleman #灣仔 ❀❗米芝蓮一星姊妹店 集合麵包店bistro於一身❗——————————————————白色情人節嚟到灣仔利東街嘅The Baker & The Bottleman💕佢喺香港米芝蓮一星Roganic嘅姊妹店，集bakery及bistro於一身。佢哋嘅sourdough及focaccia不嬲係我嘅最愛之一，今次終於有機會試到佢哋嘅晚餐，價錢都幾實惠，大部份都係$100-200👌🏻.✷𝑀𝑒𝓃𝓊✷☞ Smoked bacon croissant pudding $30/1 (4/5)用牛角包酥皮製成一層層嘅「pudding」，外微脆內軟綿，內裏包住一粒粒嘅煙肉，表面仲有大量芝士，係一個鹹香滿滿嘅特別小食😆.☞ Ravioli of three yellow chicken $155 (3.9/5)超級巨型嘅ravioli，有拳頭咁大😧內裏包住用三黃雞免治肉及蔬菜製成嘅餡料，感覺有啲似上海菜肉餃嘅味道。配醃製嘅香甜蘑菇，仲有worcestershire sauce。.☞ Pie of braised beef cheek $150 (4/5)用鐵板呈上，表面係一層層嘅薯仔🥔內裏係大量牛面頰肉絲，味道鹹鹹甜甜，非常多汁，幾香口惹味。☞ Slow cooked duck leg $180 (3.9/5)鴨腳外皮非常香脆，望落有點乾身，不過入口又比想像中嫩滑，似法式duck leg confit咁。——————————————————✨整體味道: 3.9/5 ✨環境裝修: 3.9/5✨服務態度: 4/5✨性價比: 4/5✨再訪興趣: 3.7/5.💞整體來講味道不過不失，作為米芝蓮一星嘅姊妹店，價錢非常合理，比起灣仔附近嘅西餐甚至更便宜，平時同朋友嚟聚餐都唔錯😆不過當然Roganic一定更加出色 (one of my fav 1 star Michelin) 繼續閱讀

The Baker & the Bottleman has been on my to-try list for the longest time. So thanks to C for making it happen on my birthday 🥳 The food certainly lives up to my expectations. Particularly memorable dishes of the evening for me (and must-orders for anyone who plans to pay B&B a visit) are the raviolo of three yellow chicken, the roasted pigeon and the fish burger. The raviolo swam in a pool of maitake mushroom, mustard and Worcestershire sauce - the least expected combination of ingredients but each complemented well with the other. The roasted pigeon was perfecfly done and the fish burger had one of the fluffiest beer battered cod ever. 繼續閱讀