Great Cafe @ Pacific Place, Admiralty

Hubby and I had lunch here one weekend as we were in the neighbourhood and considering I was having one of those ‘I don’t know what I feel like’ days, he just picked the first restaurant he saw.. which was Great Café @ Pacific Place. It’s located inside the Great Food Hall and it’s a very casual place, with a wide variety of international foods ranging from pizza, pasta, sandwiches, to salad and even all day breakfast on weekends.

I met a friend earlier that day, so already had breakfast, whereas Hubby on the other hand, was craving for some bacon and eggs. Hubby ordered the eggs Benedict with ham and bacon. Unfortunately when the meal arrived at our table it was lukewarm, so Hubby was a little unimpressed. The eggs were great, and cooked to perfection, yolk oozing out as you cut the egg, bread toasted, however, since it was all lukewarm both the bacon and ham were a little cold for both our likings. The hollandaise sauce was a little overpowering for me, but that’s because I am not a massive fan of hollandaise sauce. It was a shame that it wasn’t hot enough, as we both would have totally and utterly enjoyed this.

I ordered the tuna nicoise salad – wanted something ‘healthy’ after my weekend of eating. The tuna was cold – not room temperature but cold – like it was just taken out of the fridge. The salad was a mixture of potatoes, olives, tomatoes, beans, egg and lots and lots of onions! It was ‘healthy’ but definitely not the best tuna nicoise salad I had.

I think their specialties are pizzas but we both didn’t feel like it. There were a lot of waiter / waitresses but the service was incredibly slow! I’m not an impatient person, but it took the waiter / waitress a good 20 mins to get our order after we were seated IS slow! They kept telling us to ‘wait a minute’ and considering how our food became lukewarm is just an indication that the food has been left on the bench for a while.

After lunch, we walked through the great food hall to buy a couple of things, and we stumbled across donuts! I don’t eat donuts often but once in a while, I do crave for it. Hubby bought 2 large plain donuts and 2 small cream donuts and ate them when we got home (well not all of it!). The donuts definitely made up for the not so great lunch. Unfortunately Hubby ate the rest of the donuts that evening, and I had to go back and buy more the next day. Probably not good for the waist line but boy, they were great donuts!

GA’s rating: 5 / 10

Great Café

Great Food Hall) Basement

LG1, Pacific Place Phrase 2, 88 Queensway

Admiralty, Hong Kong

Ph: +852 2918 9606