Nibbles - Hooray Bar and Restaurant

A friend took me to lunch at Hooray Bar & Restaurant, on the 5th floor patio at World Trade Center, Causeway Bay. It was a nice day today, so we had lunch outside. It also has a nice view of the harbor, like most of the restaurants at WTC.


Hooray has a lunch set menu, and you can choose the number of courses. I went for Set Menu A, which was a choice of starter or pasta or main course, with dessert and coffee or tea for $108 + 10%. There were three choices for starters (soup, salad, choice from the salad bar), two choices for pasta, and four choices for main course (tuna tataki, roast of the day, BBQ spare ribs, sunny side up egg with vegetables and mushrooms). If you get a set with all the courses it's $198+10%.

Tuna Tataki, Avocado, Red Onion, Tomatoes and Ginger Soy Lime Vinaigrette

I was pleasantly surprised by the salad - the tuna is nicely seared, marinated in a teriyaki sauce, and the salad was light and fresh. Didn't spot any tomatoes in my salad though. The guacamole was a bit disappointing. I love guacamole, and this one wasn't good. They made it with a waxy variety of avocado, so the chunky bits of avocado were raw and firm.


Dessert was a selection from the buffet, but the buffet selection was limited in choices and not maintained well. The woman in front of me in the buffet line just kept picking the blueberries and raspberries out of the mixed fruit salad; so rude!


Finished off the meal with a nice cup of peppermint tea. The toothpicks they put down had a red 'H' on them, which reminded both me and my friend of Harlan's. I just googled it and turns out Hooray is part of the same group as Harlan's.


It was a nice place to chat and eat while the weather isn't too warm, and the set menu is decently priced. The service could have been managed better (they didn't operate the large patio space well, and broke a lot of dishes today). 

Worth a try, but if you're getting the set menu, I wouldn't get the BBQ spare ribs - saw them at another table and they looked like they were on the dry side.


Hooray Bar and Restaurant 
P502, World Trade Center, 280 Gloucester Road, Causeway Bay, 2895-0885
http://www.jcgroup.hk/restaurant.php?name=Hooray