Name (Chinese): 里奥尼咖啡 Address (Chinese): 大连市高尔基路43号 Address (Pinyin): 43 Gao\\\'erji Lu District: Xigang Directions: Near the I-55 American diner. Telephone Number: 8686-7630 Webpage or Email Contact Details: 里奥尼咖啡
Cosy coffee house.Good selection of coffee and desserts.
We went to Leone's on Sunday for lunch but we've been told that they don't serve food anymore.They only have coffee and cakes.We left pretty disappointed and pretty hungry.
I went there last night based on the reviews... There was only 2 persons there. I sat down and saw the menu... Their Ala carte only has 2 choices...The other choices were not available.. i was disappointed...they only served their angus steak set menu...
I didnt order and left utterly disappointed..
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Leone's Coffee Shop; overall not a bad experince.., Tuesday, 24 July 2007
Went for a bite at Leone's Coffee shop last night. Overall, not a bad experience. I had a T-bone pepper steak, which comes with a roll, soup, and salad. The soup was very tasty, the bread slightly 'sweetish', but the steak was pretty good. I ordered it medium, but it might have been a bit overdone by the kitchen. The quality of the meat was quite tender and succulent. The salad was mostly apple cut into pieces with a pinkish salad dressing of some sort on top of it. Not too great, (the salad), but certainly edible. The cost was 48 RMB, but I wasn't quite full after finishing the meal. For a big eater, the above might not be enough, and those individual might want to look at the set menus, which are quite a bit more expensive... in the range of 148 RMB and upwards. They have a separate menu for the Angus steaks, which also starts at about that range, and goes up quite a bit price wise. Not sure what comes with the Angus steaks though. As an aside, the do have good quality, sharp, steak knifes.
The service staff is reasonably clued-up, with the waiting periods not too long, but their English ability is certainly lacking. It's a bit of a struggle to communicate with them, (if you have limited Chinese ability), with a lot of sign language being needed.
A definite plus for the place is the ambience. It has a 'cozy' look from the outside, and the decorations are very nice, but not over done. There is an outside veranda with furniture and umbrellas, with the indoor part of the restaurant well air-conditioned. They have some English reading material at the entrance, although I could only see one English newspaper (The South China Morning Post). There are some paperbacks at the back of the establishment, but it was all in Chinese, as far as I could tell.
Overall, not a bad experience, and they are certainly trying their utmost to create an eatery with a western slant to it. The restaurant was quite busy, but not overly so, being a Monday evening.
Last night, I went to Leone's Coffee and had an Angus steak there. The presentation of the food was beautiful, the beef was tender, and the red wine and coffee were perfect. If you like steak, go there and try it! The staff is not very good at English, but they are very kind and lovely!
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