New restaurants in Hong Kong: world-class pizzas at Kytaly in Central
- Kytaly was opened by Franco Pepe, whose Italian restaurant was voted the world’s best for pizza
- The crust on the pizzas is perfect and the toppings are delicious
“This place has an issue with utensils,” commented one of my guests at Kytaly as we tried serving ourselves a Capri salad (mozzarella di bufala Campana DOP, tomatoes, cream of basil, extra virgin olive oil, HK$110 for a starter, HK$210 as a main) with a long-handled spoon that had a bowl big enough to hold only one cherry tomato at a time.
We asked the server for a more useful spoon (the one we were given was apparently usually used for tiramisu) but he said that was the only type they had.
There were other issues on the day we visited, not the least of which was a foreign object hiding among the leaves, tuna and other ingredients in the Amalfi salad (HK$170 for a starter, HK$270 as a main).
We thought at first that it was glass, but the guest who found it (by crunching on it) didn’t get cut, so perhaps it was plastic.
The manager whisked away the guest’s plate before we had time to examine (and photograph) whatever it was, then came back to say that it didn’t come from the jar of tuna, which was apparently intact. It didn’t really matter, though – it shouldn’t have been there.