Rosewood Hong Kong’s casual eatery shows you how warm ambience elevates food and drink to new heights
Bayfare Social is not a food court, nor is it a buffet restaurant either.
The casual food hall concept on the fifth floor of Rosewood Hong Kong runs in a different style than a conventional hotel restaurant. It encourages open interactions between chefs and guests, and its warm ambience and interior design facilitate such communication. The question remains, does such concept work within a luxury hotel as Rosewood and K11 Musea? Let’s find out.
There are two main entrances from where guests can enter Bayfare Social. The convenient location is from K11 Musea, passing through a long corridor to enter the establishment. The other end is from the hotel side, is where guests are greeted and shown to their tables. We arrived on a busy weeknight and the restaurant was mostly filled up. Spanning almost 10,000 square feet, the Bayfare Social space centres in the entire fifth floor of the hotel, with entry way leading to Henry, the hotel’s Texan steakhouse and Chaat, a soon-to-open Indian gastropub. The all-day-dining concept maximises the space with seating in every corner you could turn. The abundance of high tables and bar stools stylishly line around each station, together with seating in front of each food station, encouraging interaction between chefs and guests, while the latter can watch their orders being prepared as part of the dining experience.
Bayfare Social’s all-day offerings cover everything from simple salads and take-away sandwiches to a la carte selections from cold seafood crudo to hot tapas; a deli station with charcuterie, cheeses and homemade breads; as well as Chinese noodles, Italian pasta and a wide dessert counter featuring house-selection of gelati and cakes. We began with the restaurant’s popular burrata salad with baby beetroot, heirloom tomatoes and basil pesto. We love the creamy burrata on sweet heirloom tomatoes, if only this modernised version of the Caprese salad could balance the proportion between roasted beetroot and tomatoes it would be even better.