Cafe O

I spotted this new Café O at Admiralty station yesterday night and I’m so happy about it!!! I’ve got a few reasons for that: first, they sell black ‘normal’ coffee; second, they open at 7.00am, earlier than most other coffee places so if I need an early fix, I know where to go; third, it’s usually quieter than most other stores around; fourth, I’ve just found out they also have amazing smoothies! I usually don’t care for the food at these small cafés, but it looked really good — mainly sandwiches and a few drinks to go.
As I had a late one last night, I immediately thought about grabbing an Americano at Café O this morning. At 9.25am I was the only customer — regular size black coffee is 30HKD. I was looking around at their menu thinking how good they sounded when a minute later, there I had my coffee. I must admit, however, as I sip through my coffee, that it isn’t very special. Pacific Coffee’s is much better but then again that’s pretty much all they do. The good news is they serve ‘dark chocolate’ too. You don’t usually see the hot chocolate named ‘dark’ so this could be an interesting one to test. Café O also serves food and they had an interesting cookies counter. If I only ate sugar!
I haven’t tried the food and I don’t think I will because I have better options for that around my office, however it’s good to have it there, just in case.

I haven’t taken the MTR from Admiralty Station in a while, so this may be old news but — there is now a mini Café O! That spot used to be occupied by a Pacific Coffee, and I think the Café O is a great replacement — there’s a fridge full of on-​the-​go deli food, which is really useful to anyone who doesn’t have a lot of time to spare and just wants a quick bite.
They’ve got focaccias, sandwiches, salads, baguettes and wraps — more of the first two, though. It was only when I took a closer look at the fridge that I realized they were doing a buy one get one free on most of their stuff! For a discount as big as this, I would think that they would place a huge sign to advertise it — but nope, it was all rather subtle. Everything looked really, well, substantial — the focaccias looked pretty huge!
It was two for the price of one, so I couldn’t resist. I ended up getting two focaccias — an avocado and turkey and a mushroom vegetarian one — to bring home as brunches for the next day. $ 58 for two meant less than $ 30 for one, which was a pretty good deal given how big they were! I actually wanted to get salad wraps but there was only one left. My mother and I had the focaccias the next day and we both agreed that even though we’d left them overnight, they were fresh still, and definitely really filling!
Besides deli food, they also have other stuff like yogurt cups, healthy chips and of course, drinks. Café O is, in my opinion, a great addition to the station. If its buy one get one free promotion continues, it won’t be seeing the last of me!