Green Garden Restaurant

Green garden restaurant with spacious room is an ideal way to relax in the rural environment of the European country style within peaceful, green surroundings you can contemplate the street life going by at the corner of Jinggou Road. A very girly friendly restaurant is place can enjoy an afternoon tea and delicious plate or a gastronomic menu. And most of the customer here are ladies it was a slightly crowd. According to their customers review this restaurant is specializing in exquisite taste. But for us it's just average meal.

We started with their soup a vegetable soup which was basically a minestrone.

The pumpkin soup was just bland and it wasn't as flavorful.

Similar to other Italian restaurant, we were treated to a nice assortment of bread.

Our antipasto has arrived and I try the baked vegetable with cheese. This particular portion was a bit small but a solid dish nonetheless.

The waldorf salad is basically an apple salad, with smoked chicken some fresh vegetable and salad dressing without walnut.

For the main course, so we had a pork knuckle with mustard sauce, one of their best dish in this restaurant. It was served with sauerkraut, the crispy skin crackles as the knife goes through it and the meat was really well flavoured and tender. The portion is good enough to share a absolutely we loved it!

I order the baked bacon and fish with pesto sauce, a combination of white fish wrapped in bacon and asparagus baked-steamed in white wine. At first glance it looks very appealing. I quickly attacked a portion of the fish. I guess the fish it has a strong taste of rice wine instead of white wine. And the pesto sauce it didn't matched with the fish and which turned out to be the worst part of it unfortunately!

The spaghetti with smoked chicken in pumpkin sauce, which features sliced of asparagus, was a good size portion that Claire didn’t come close to finishing.

Risotto rice with salmon in cream sauce. The portion, again, was quite generous as it was pure comfort.

I got a cup of cappuccino was okay and the rest of the drinks was disappointed!

So we ended up to apple millefueille, it was  frozen! We don't feel satisfy and we cannot wait to have a drink and sweets at Starbucks. Overall the service is okay and inexpensive, but food it's wasn't great, the only good thing that was good that day was the pork knuckle. If we will return? maybe yes or not!

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Green Garden Restaurant( 綠芳園咖啡庭園餐廳)
232 East District, Ming-Zheng Road Hsinchu City
新竹市東區民權路232號
Contact: 03-5339280
Website:
www.greengarden.48h.tw/

La Bretagne

Wuchuan Parkway Taichung is one of the most popular locations for diners, you may find a lots of restaurants some shops stand side by side on this area. After a day trip to ching -shue flower farm and market, we decided to have our dinner at the Pumpkin house but it's full book, and check  the La Bretagne and there is 2 more table available for the whole family. Although were familliar at Wunchuan and we been this place for many times, and so we had our dinner last saturday at La Bretagne.

The decoration inside is very carefully, visitors want to see every corner of clever surprises, although the exact design of the decoration of the French countryside, but have their own independent characteristics of each block, the entire becomes too much store design element.

Furnished the entire layout of the restaurant is like the countryside, although I like simple style of decoration, but the comparison is more warm and comfortable country style garden.

I am amazed that the other bottle compartment design of the second floor, empty bottles can be translucent glass partitions not only the effect of another style of European wine cellar.

 

The decor here is rustic in traditional European gothic style, colored glass window, wooden tables-chairs, green walls and a green wine bottle wall lamp complement the interior design with a great effect and delightful to the eye.

 

They even had a piano and allowing you to sit and play a music it doesn't bothered to them not unlike the other restaurants they only used for a decoration.

La Bretagne offers a variety of excellent meals from southern France and other European regions. Our meal that starts at the appetizer a 3 small bites of tapenade.

Before our salads came, the staff will served you this pure orange and tomato juice.

 *Salads*

Tomato basil buffalo mozzarella cheese-served with olive oil, pine nuts and basil vinegar and well beautifully serves on your plate.

Bretagne seafood salad-serve with French garlic mustard dressing and Naples olive oil vinegar dressing.

Provence pine nuts vegetable and fruit salad-served with cherry honey lemon yogurt dressing.

Nicoise tuna potato salad-served with french celery dressing and hazelnut herbal dressing.

*Soup*

Pumpkin cream soup with smoked bacon

Sherry crab mushroom cream chowder soup

French chicken shredded mushroom soup

The soup accompanied with fresh oven baked bread with dipping sauces

The best part is that you get to choose from several toppings and dipping sauces, pure olive oil, red wine vinegar, cappuccino coffee cream and sweet butter.

*Main Course*

Rossini fillet steak with goose liver terrine served with red wine pepper sauce

Florence roasted cherry duck breast fillet served with orange cherry herbal sauce and apple. I think just season with more salt and it was more flavorful.

Versailles mushroom terrine baked chicken served with pine nuts, basil and red wine sauce

Pan-roasted fillet steak served with sea salt and red wine pepper sauce.

*Finale*

Chocolate mousse

Crepe suzette with hazelnut ice cream

Royal sherry bread pudding

Cream brulee

Hot orange tea

Kiwi juice

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The food here is also done to great effect specialy the salads are very healthy, well accommodation and friendly staffs as well the environment. Perfect to set for a date or any special occasions.

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La Bretagne
No. 63 Wuchuan 4th St, Taichung City
地址:台中市西區五權西四街63號
Contact no: 04-2378-0489

Mövenpick

Movenpick ice cream and Euro Deliz theme restaurant it also has sold meals XD:, 2 days ago we had a lunch here, and this is not our first time. Located on the 2nd floor at Shinkong Mitsukoshi Shopping Center Hsinchu is a little cafe, with lots of seats and hot foods on the menu. A set package deal of set menu just add for NT$100 you can have a cup of soup, salad, bread, drinks, cake or a small scoop of ice cream. Basis on our previous dining experienced here, were not a big fun of their salad and soup it taste very bland. Instead we go for a single order it much better.

*Appetizer*

Deep fried calamari

   Smoked chicken salad with cheese salad dressing

*Main*

I had a German pork knuckle serve with potato, sauerkraut and mustard sauce, is crispy on the outside, tender on the inside. Quite good and better than we had in Rhein Germany

Grilled salmon with lemon sauce was dry.

Tomato seafood risotto rice, my daughter she like it so much.

Hot trio section latte

Fruit ballet

Panna cotta with frozen fruits and ice cream in mango sauce, very refreshing!
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Overall, our dining experience at the Movenpick-Euro Deliz was little more than average. The food was not awful, nor did we walk away feeling like we experienced something unique as they were reasonably priced.

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Mövenpick Hsinchu Branch
2-F Shinkong Mitsukoshi Department Store
NO. 190 hung Hwa Rd., Sec 2,Hsinchu City
Tel no: 03-5151379

Website:

http://www.movenpick-icecream.com.tw/

London Tea House Taipei 101

We finally selected is the Taipei 101 in London Tea House United Kingdom State tea for our lunch this weekend, yes, we are not going to drink only a tea we had our full set main course. London Tea House is easy to recognize, on the fourth floor of  the central open space, this large open space for people and feeling very comfortable.

Package priced at noon here around NT$ 300 ~ 500, but also not expensive. Noon; not so many people, I think people come here to drink for afternoon tea or drink tea's at anytime. First impressions were good, the decor is impressive and the service was above average.

Following is the package accompanying of set meals is the cream of corn soup, very rich but also very plain. Here you can see quite a European-style dishes, giving the feeling like the exposure to the English court.

To start our meal we had a small amount of salad, likewise is similar with other restaurant

Soup

Followed by bread, roasted and crunchy but soft.

*Main Course*

Spaghetti carbonara

Spaghetti seafood in saffron sauce,,, quite dry!

Me and Charles we had their Hungarian seafood with cream risotto rice,,, all of our main course it was so plain, so so as we describe it. After the meal is the time for tea. Charles and his father had their both of hot milk tea, and cold milk tea for Claire, and I had a fragrant herb tea, serve in elegant teapot British style of painting a very delicate teapot that people can enjoy.

*Cakes and Tea's*

Strawberry tart filled pastry cream and a tower of fresh strawberries.

The raspberry macaroon layered cake on the right, it was unbelievable...Worth every calorie!

Opera rich and dense blend of chocolate ganache and espresso butter cream between layers of almond sponge cake

Mont Blanc

Milk tea

Black tea

British tea pot

Herb tea

Cold milk tea

I will recommend London Tea House is the ideal setting for high tea, with silver services bringing sandwiches, pastries, cookies, cakes, and of course a wonderful assortment of teas.

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London Tea House

Located at 4th floor Taipei 101 Blg,
No. 45, Shifu Road, Xinyi District, Taipei City

Website

http://www.londonteahouse.com.tw/

07/21/2011

London Tea House Taipei 101 branch was already closed!