Restaurant review: Spiga in Central – good seafood and great desserts, but avoid the pizza
A large, well-designed space, Italian restaurant offers dishes that sound tempting, but a poor excuse for a lukewarm pizza marred the meal despite the free desserts
Spiga occupies the large space that once belonged to Lupa – the Mario Batali establishment that was also managed by Dining Concepts restaurant group. It’s a lovely, well-designed restaurant – although it’s large, it has cosy corners, and the noise level wasn’t high, but that might be because it wasn’t full on the night we visited.
We liked parts of the traditional Italian osso buco with saffron risotto (HK$298). The meat itself was a bit stringy, but we liked the rich sauce. The risotto was creamy but not heavy, but we couldn’t taste the saffron.
The main disappointment of the night was the white pizza with soft cheese and black truffle (HK$278). It was tepid, and when the waiter asked whether we liked it, we told him that. He offered to have it reheated, and when we agreed, he said he’d have to ask the manager. After several minutes, the manager came over and we repeated our complaint and were told us it was supposed to be like that. He offered another pizza but we didn’t want the first one to go to waste (although by that time, it had gone even cooler), so he said he’d give us free desserts. In any case, we didn’t like this style of pizza; the crust was too tender, without any chew, and it lacked char.
Spiga, 3/F LHT Tower, 31 Queen’s Road Central, tel: 2871 0055. Dinner without paying for desserts about HK$345 without drinks or the service charge.
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