Favoured customers have been ordering out from Landau's for years. Now the Wan Chai restaurant has decided to expand its informal outside catering service with a new division, Foodworks, which offers everything from cocktail parties and formal sit-down dinners to picnic boxes and junk trips. Customers can either choose from the list of set menus or customise their dishes, says Landau's general manager, Collin Smith. Charges range from $200 to $300 a person for a buffet with a minimum of 25 people, cocktails from $100 to $145 and junk trips from $130 to $145. Menus are a mix of Asian dishes and the European - particularly British - selections Landau's is famous for. Among the high spots on the cocktail circuit are the mini-Yorkshire pudding with roast beef and horseradish cream sauce, smoked trout and parsley mousse, and bread-and-butter pudding with bourbon custard sauce. In another new move for the long-established chain, Landau's and sister restaurant Jimmy's Kitchen are to offer a deli list from early next month. 'We've done the deli list for several years at Christmas,' Mr Smith says. 'Business was so good 'we decided to do it year round'. Order on 2827-7901. Afford to be chewsy Nothing about nougat has escaped the owners of Castello del Vino, the Wan Chai wine shop and deli that carries what has to be the best range of nougat in Hong Kong. Two brands are offered: Oliviero and Le Tre Marie. The Oliviero selection includes nougat laced with rum or pistachio, either plain or chocolate-covered. Bite-size pieces are available in 200-gram bags for $35. Solid blocks are $25 each. Le Tre Marie nougat is $88 for an assorted 500g box - the perfect gift for one of those at-home handover parties. Lost World Part II Los Angeles airport, LAX, has Hollywood chef to the stars Wolfgang Puck. Hong Kong's new airport at Chek Lap Kok has Maxim's, and assorted other catering companies well used to feeding hungry masses. The territory's more innovative restaurateurs are shaking their heads at the lost opportunity. 'What a waste,' said one ground-breaking local owner of the Airport Authority's concept of world-class catering. The jury is still out on the Irish pub Katie O'Connors, to be located at the Arrivals Hall. Maxim's serves more than 400,000 meals a day in 268 outlets around Hong Kong, and will operate a modern Chinese restaurant at the airport's Sky Mall. The Airport Authority says Maxim's was chosen because of its 'proven catering success' at Kai Tak. Another catering concession announced by the Airport Authority went to Windows on the World, which has distinguished itself at the current airport only by its indifferent food and worse service. Other outlets at the new airport will include McDonald's, Oliver's Super Sandwiches, yoghurt shop TCBY, Fook Ming Tong Tea House, and Kaldi's Cafe.
