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Scarlett Café & Wine Bar

Tucked away in a side street in popular Tsim Sha Tsui is Scarlett Café & Wine Bar, a pleasant dining and drinking outlet and popular watering hole for discerning expats and locals. Scarlett serves a potpourri of homely French cuisine, including a daily blackboard menu. It also offers a relaxed place for after-work drinks or dinner.

The restaurant occupies two floors: the lower floor is dominated by an open, friendly bar with bar stool seating while the upper floor houses the kitchen and a cosy dining area. The expansive glass doors allow customers to spill out on to the street during happy hour , which runs from 3 to 6 pm, adding colour to the restaurant's friendly and welcoming setting.

For our dinner, we sampled many items on the menu meant to share, which was perfect for us. For starters, we had Beef Tartare “A la Montmartre” ($188) – hand-cut beef tenderloin, egg yolk, French fries; Duck Foie Gras Terrine ($198) with kumquat chutney, grape chutney and toast; and Snails from Burgundy ($188 / 12 pieces) seasoned with parsley butter. All three starters were good; we especially liked the tender tartare and its flavourful seasoning.

For main courses, we also shared three dishes: pan-fried Cod Fish ($288), mixed vegetables, lobster bisque; Le Confit de Canard ($158), duck leg confit, roasted potatoes, mushroom & bacon and duck sauce; and a succulent Beef Short Ribs ($238) with teriyaki sauce, mushrooms, mashed potatoes, green peas – the teriyaki sauce giving a nice, sweet flavour to the ribs.

The dessert are good also – light and refreshingly sweet; we tried Le Fondant ($98) – 75% Ecuadorean chocolate, salted caramel butter, vanilla ice cream and Le Citron ($98) – Italian meringue, lemon sorbet.

We chose a nice bottle of 2016 Saint Guihem Le Desert Pinot Noir from southern France to go with our food, which turned out well.

Scarlett offers a relaxing dining experience; the food is excellent, and the prices are eminently reasonable. You should give it a try if you can.

G/F, 2 Austin Ave, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon