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Overview
Awards
- MICHELIN Guide
- OAD
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Asian Restaurants 2024, 102
- The World’s50 Best
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Asia`s 50 Best Restaurants 2024, #71
- Restaurant Ranking
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Restaurant Ranking 2024, #1502, PRO #17.00, USER #0.00
Chef
Antimo Maria Merone
Cuisine
Italian
Foodle Reviews
on 14 Nov 2024
🌟 @estro.hk had been on my list for a long time. As a fierce pasta lover, I was enticed by tantalizing images of @antimo_maria_merone’s signature bottoni and lustrous loops of linguine. I knew that they would dazzle the palate as well as the eyes, and they did not disappoint.
The entire meal was a treat - wonderful pastas and perfectly cooked lamb. Combined with Antimo’s affable charm, it’s a winning combination.
Our menu:
Mortadella and robiola toast
Saffron... More
on 30 Oct 2024
Now that one has the option of ordering à la carte and no longer be forced to take a multi-course tasting menu, I immediately switched to an all-pasta lineup by ordering 3 different pastas. They were ALL delicious.
I think this is the way I'll do it going forward. 3 pastas, all the time.
My wife only wanted 2 courses but had to take a minimum of 3 courses with à la carte, so I ended up with her dessert.
Full account of dinner is on my blog: https://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2024/11/pasta-pasta-pasta.html... More
on 15 Aug 2024
An edible origami crane, a dessert “buttons” - these were just some of the amazing dishes we had at the special collaboration between @antimo_maria_merone of @estro.hk and @jw.sson of @eatanicgarden in Seoul! The menu featured signature dishes from Estro reimagined by Chef Son and signature dishes from Eatanic Garden reinterpreted by Chef Antimo. This unique exploration of Korean and Italian cuisine resulted in ingenious creations such as the lobster... More
on 31 Jul 2024
An interesting collaboration between Estro and Eatanic Garden from Seoul. Each chef has chosen a signature dish from the other chef, and found a way to re-interpret it.
So we have squid noodles with pine nut sauce, bottoni with galbi jjim, and samgyetang stuffed with risotto.
A very interesting and delicious dinner.
Full account of dinner on my blog: https://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2024/07/chefs-with-hair.html
Top list
on 23 May 2024
A really fantastic dinner at my favorite Italian restaurant in HK. This time around the special menu included FOUR pastas, including a flat "noodle" made by slicing raw squid.
Every pasta course was beautiful. The highlight for me, though, was the cacio e pepe made with 5 different kinds of pepper.
Of course, this is not to say that the other dishes - such as the sea bass or the pigeon - weren't tasty. They were.
Full account of dinner is on my blog: https://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2024/05/pepe-e-pepe.html... More
on 28 Jan 2024
Where Hong Kong meets Tokyo - Italian style with the collaboration of @antimo_maria_merone of @estro.hk and @luca.fantin of @bulgarilucafantintokyo! Centered around seafood, the menu was a symphony of Italian flavors with exclusive dishes created for the event along with Luca’s signature dishes - including my favorite sea urchin pasta and milk dessert!
The menu:
APERITIVO
AORIKA | CAULIFLOWER, BLACK TRUFFLE
by @bulgarilucafantintokyo... More
on 26 Jan 2024
A collaboration between 2 well-known Italian chefs in Asia. I have long heard of Luca Fantin's talent but never bothered to visit his restaurant in Tokyo.
Maybe if I had visited him when he was first recommended to me over 10 years ago, I would have been impressed with what he's doing. The dishes he brought to this collab may be his signatures, but they are no longer innovative or interesting, as there are plenty of other chefs doing similar things.
Full account of lunch is on my blog: https://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2024/01/veneto-to-campagnia.html... More
on 30 Sep 2023
Taking Gerhard to have Italian in Hong Kong, at a restaurant where the chef is delivering amazing pastas.
Full account of lunch is here: https://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2023/09/geruhage-hk-tour-day-2-just-like-italy.html
on 07 Sep 2023
A taste of Arnaud Dunand's cuisine without having to go to his French restaurant in Bangkok.
Can't fault the flavors or the execution, but I still love the pasta from Estro. The eel from Estro I could do without.
Full account of lunch is on my blog: https://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2023/09/bangkok-hong-kong.html
on 13 Jun 2023
Introducing Estro to a friend who has been away from HK for a while.
The meal's highlights included the amazing scialatielli made with squid ink, which was topped with "fettucine" of raw squid. The bottoni weren't shabby, either.
The lamb was beautiful.
Full account of dinner on my blog: https://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2023/06/golden-trumpet.html
on 10 May 2023
A short 3-course lunch at Estro, which included just one pasta dish.
The lamb was very, very good.
Full account of lunch on my blog: https://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2023/05/no-gold-for-maradona.html
on 07 Mar 2023
Another delicious dinner. The amberjack and lobster were both excellent, while the 3 pasta courses were all outstanding. Tasty lamb, too!
Full account of dinner on my blog: https://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2023/03/golden-balls.html
on 05 Jan 2023
We barely fit in the private room, but this was a very good team dinner for us.
We were magically served an extra pasta course, making it 3 pastas for this meal. I would never, ever complain about that.
Full account of dinner on my blog: https://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2023/01/panettone-from-terrone.html
on 24 Dec 2022
These days it's rare for me to dine out on Christmas Eve, but we decided to support our friends in the industry this year.
The dinner featured one of the best dishes I tasted in 2022 - that kinki which may well be the best I've ever had. The pasta were, as usual, all very good... and we had 3 of them. The beef dish was very good on this night, which was the first time I enjoyed beef at this restaurant.
Full account on dinner is on my blog: https://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2022/12/no-torrone-from-terrone.html... More
on 20 Sep 2022
Congrats @estro.hk first anniversary. Time flies! sumptuous feast as can only be expected from #dreamteam @antimo_maria_merone @rchaneton @agux1988 Thanks for cooking on your days off!! @theforksandspoons852
on 30 Aug 2022
A fantastic dinner where every single dish was really enjoyable, which is not easy!
The three pastas were the best out of them all, and 2 of them were superb and among the best pasta dishes I've had.
Full account of dinner on my blog: https://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2022/08/golden-buttons.html
on 02 Apr 2022
Second visit, after the last booking got cancelled by the HK government.
All of the dishes were fine EXCEPT the beef. It just didn't have any flavor.
Full account of lunch is here on my blog: https://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2022/04/no-zebra-for-me-again.html
on 21 Sep 2021
First visit to Antimo Maria Merone's own restaurant, together with one of his good friends.
I had not tasted the red prawn, panna cotta, and caviar dish before, and it was pretty nice, of course.
First time tasting bottoni pasta, and the gnocchi that followed was fantastic... as was the mafalde.
Full account of the dinner on my blog: https://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2021/09/what-fuck-am-i-doing-here.html
