ReviewThe best salade Nicoise in Hong Hong – La Petite Maison in Central reviewed
- French restaurant at H Queen’s serves good food and an amazing salade Nicoise
- Confit duck was stringy, though, and dessert a little disappointing
I was both sceptical of and intrigued by La Petite Maison, which opened recently in Hong Kong.
Intrigued because a friend – who is given to superlatives – described the restaurant’s salade Nicoise as “revelatory”. Sceptical because our first impressions of it were not great.
The restaurant is in the food- and art-focused H Queen’s tower in Queen’s Road Central (although its entrance is on Stanley Street). The original opened in Nice, southern France, three decades ago, and there are branches in London, Dubai, Istanbul and Abu Dhabi.
When we called about a week in advance, we could only get a table for 6pm, and we were told we’d have to finish by 8pm – something the hostess mentioned again when I arrived, on the dot. But the hostess couldn’t find the booking of the diner who was there just minutes before me (his guest was already sitting down), which made us slightly late for our own table.
