The interior of Italian restaurant Paletto is classy, with intimate dining corners, an impressive glass wine cellar and wooden floors. The menu is extensive, offering creative dishes rarely found in Hong Kong along with classics such as osso buco, lasagne and chicken cacciatore.

The mixed appetiser platter featured carpaccio in Panzanella bread, San Daniele ham and honey ham, caprese mignon with buffalo mozzarella, fried seafood, and home-made beef tartare with black truffle cream.

The caprese was like a half-moon sandwich, with two slices of juicy tomato and buffalo mozzarella in between; the deep-fried prawns were meaty; and the beef tartare was on a bed of black truffle cream that overwhelmed the palate.