Tuesday 8 January 2013

Hibiki, an unexpected Japanese pleasure: Fortina continued

Hibiki
This is the Japanese restaurant, although it serves food more for a western palate. In previous years when we have been at the hotel, this restaurant has been immensely popular, but this year, at lunch we were the only diners on a couple of occasions, and it did not get full at dinner. For the new year dinner, which we did not attend, it was pretty deserted, and the Tepanayaki section was hardly used at all. This cannot be because of the quality of the food which we found excellent, as was the service, and can only assume it is a combination of price and suspicion by winter visitors (mainly mature) of Japanese food.
http://www.fortinasparesort.com/hibiki?l=1 for more detail but at the time of writing, no menu.
We ate there a few times for lunch, and once for dinner (identical menus).On my first visit for lunch I had the prawn tepan starter

This was followed by the Beef Gyozo Dumplings which were delicious
This was followed by a desert of rolls, rather like sweet spring rolls with a cinnamon and chocolate filling (does not sound very Japanese).
The menu is somewhat repetitive, and portion sizes are not huge, but one did not leave hungry. Overall, I would give the hot food a 7-8.

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