Top four steak frites restaurants in Hong Kong

An entrecote craze is sweeping Hong Kong. Entrecote usually means a rib-eye served in the most Parisian of presentations, steak frites: a chargrilled steak, served alongside a pile of crispy French fries, bookended by a simple salad of walnuts and greens with a tart vinaigrette and a dessert. The French serve their meat with buttery bearnaise. We stopped by Hong Kong's best entrecote joints, from the classic W's Entrecote to the newest Paris import Le Relais de L'entrecote and ordered a medium-rare steak with all the trimmings at each. We judged each meal on the meat's tenderness, the char, the sauce, the salad, the fries and of course, the taste.

This open and airy dining room on Wyndham Street enjoys lots of natural light and great music. It's a pleasant place to enjoy a lunchtime steak frites. HK$268 will get you a green salad with walnuts, trimmed entrecote steak with "famous sauce" and French fries.

the meat was undercooked and, oddly, was sliced horizontally - resulting in thin, slimy dark red ribbons of very rare meat which were hard to cut and chew.

there was hardly any char visible on the meat and no discernable char flavour.

the meat wasn't well seasoned and was swimming in sauce so it was hard to judge.