It can be disconcerting when you're the only diners in a restaurant. This was the case when we visited Eighteen Sharp (tel: 2153 3366), a Chinese dining room opened by luxury watch brand Franck Muller in its new flagship store across from Times Square.

The space has a contemporary feel, and the restaurant offers three set menus at HK$680, HK$880 and HK$1,888. The menu has some Cantonese dishes as well as intriguing combinations such as baked prawns with French mustard seed and honey lemon sauce (above), deep-fried salad oyster roll with minty guava dressing, and steamed egg white with soya milk, crab roe and XO sauce.

While the restaurant has been officially open for more than a week, we couldn't help but feel that almost every dish lacked something - mostly flavour. The only one we thoroughly enjoyed was the double-boiled yellow cucumber soup with geoduck and clams.