The team behind the amazing 22 Ships has brought to us earlier this year another tapas bar across the street – Ham & Sherry. It’s a more casual and spacious place comparing to 22 Ships and it is decorated with catchy blue and white tiles. It can be a cocktail bar, and they also offer tapas which are good enough for a meal.
It’s rather rare in Hong Kong to have a restaurant which is focused on sherry. I came across sherry back in the college days since we were offered sherry every week before high table dinners. Little did I know that there are in fact so many types of sherry and some can be priced at almost HKD 2000 per bottle. Apart from sherry, they also have an extended wine list and also a very cute cocktail menu with colourful drawings in a school exercise book.
We started off with a bottle of cava, which was very reasonably priced at $298, and since we couldn’t make a choice among the jamon they offer, we order the Ham & Sherry Charcuteria Board – which contained chef’s selection of jamon iberico, chorizo, pickles, toast with tomato salsa and manchego cheese! The cheese was so good that we had to get a separate order!
This beautiful dish of octopus is on the special menu on the blackboard. Tasted as good as it looked.
The Crispy and Garlic prawns were so flavourful. Would be great to pair with ice cold beer.
The portion of Paella was rather small, but good enough to share among 2 to 3 girls. It was interesting to give a twist to the traditional paella with the addition of this big piece of ‘chicken leg mushroom’.
The Fried Oysters came rather late but they worth the wait! Fresh and juicy, not oily. Great dish.
To compensate for our wait we were given drinks on the house! (shhh) and just when I was planning to try our the sherry they brought us one to pair with our chocolate mousse dessert. It was an interesting dessert with grilled carrots and sesame crumble – who would have thought to put carrot with chocolate? The sherry was okay but guess I am not a big fan for sweet wine.
Ham & Sherry is a great place for girl’s night out! (considering that tapas are generally not enough for a guy’s appetite. ) We enjoyed the drinks, the service and the tapas and three hours passed by quickly. They do not take bookings, but this place is not as crowded as 22 ships – no need to queue, just come in earlier.
Ham & Sherry | 1-7 Ship Street, Wanchai | 2555 0628
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