CAKES $42-45
There are two main pastry chefs that Gladys works with, switching here and now. You may or may not see the same cakes on your next visit, but they are SUPER GOOD. If you happen to see the yellow eclair-like lemon cake (with a chocolate curl on top), it's derrrifffus.
I ate too many others to count! Oops! Sigh!! Life's too short!
ICE-CREAM / WAFFLE:
Expensive but delicious! The matcha ice-cream waffle cup came as a surprise, because they ran out of the original green tea ice-cream + waffle toasts. So ours was presented beautifully in a cute waffle cup! But like $88!!!
FOOD
There is a normal menu with pasta ($68+), all-day-breakfast ($110+), and panini's ($75+) that they make every day. But sometimes they feature an off-the-menu item, usually written on the chalkboard outside.
"3 birdies"
- 2 toast with eggplants, bacon, apple sauce
- 1 toast with red berry? sauce, but it tastes like tomato sauce! It's not tomato
"chicken in croissant":
- OMG. I haven't had good croissant in a long time! (Toronto doesn't make good ones either)
- chicken is super tender and flavourful
- pesto sauce, SO much of it though.
4 chicken drumsticks for $68
It includes salad + balsamic vinegar and two "homemade" sauces. One is a light cheese, the other is a creamy garlic kind of sauce. The sauces are very good! Chicken drumsticks are so small.
COFFEE:
Hong Kong charges coffee quite expensive! Surprisingly espresso drinks like latte, flat whites are less expensive. Flat whites are everywhere!
I like both the latte and the flat white at Gladys.
TIMES TO COME: (weekend edition)
This cafe seats 3 at the coffee bar, and
- 2x table for 2
- 3x table for 4
- 1 washroom
- lunchtime 12pm-1pm - I would say 90% full. There are children.
- "my belly is full!" time 1-1:30pm - 90-99% full!! but they're leaving soon, ok?
- the "gap" before afternoon 1:30-2:30pm - at your own risk! Sometimes they're packed. Sometimes they're not. We've always been lucky though (party of 2).
- afternoon 2:30-4pm - Usually quiet, in terms of noise level too. Sometimes we're unlucky to see the "loud chummy friends" group.
- closing time 4-6pm - It's very quiet. Not many people left. There's me! read more