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Good quality food, large portions, generous cocktails, all for cheap prices in a very cool low key lounge.

Now there is a place where you can have a French Soiree meal without paying the price. Alfa, mostly knows for its famous 80s dance nights, is also a stately fusion restaurant offering everything from South East Indian to German meals around 28-48rmb.

The décor of Alfa is like a Southeast Asian lounge bar with plush elevated couches for sitting in hedonistic poses, and even water tanks below your feet. However, Alfa is unpretentious and though it feels chic and cool, guests come in all types of casual outfits.

Their new French Soiree menu is to be served on Thursdays accompanied with low-key lounge music. The cocktails are served in very large portions and don’t feel like a crime in terms of price. The beers are also served cold and cheaper than at other establishments.

The menu includes large “French Fries” that are actually thickly cut wedges generously baked in pepper and garlic and served with sour cream and ketchup. They are served in a huge tin bucket, and are hard to put down.

On offer is also all you can eat Mussels served in Cream Sauce and/or White Wine Sauce. Even though it is not yet mussel season, they are still quite tasty and fresh. The white wine sauce is milder than the spicy cream sauce, and gives it a nice succulent taste. The cream sauce is unique and makes them just as scintillating in its spice.

Another dish on the menu is the Lamb, and like everything else is served in large portions. Mongolian lamb, it does have the qualities of mutton, but thankfully has much more meat than most lamb served even at high end restaurants in China. It is tender but not soft, and the black pepper sauce enhances the chewy meat nicely. It also comes with excellent lightly oiled crispy capsicum and two large wedges that are spicier than the earlier ones.

To top it off, they will offer French wine at 25 rmb a glass!

This is a place I would come back to. Good quality food, large portions, generous cocktails, all for cheap prices in a very cool low key lounge. It is definitely a place to try, and come back to again and again.

-- by Larissa Paschyn

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