Music restaurants focus on food presentation and environment, and are often innovative and eye-catching, but few stores can continue to operate for more than 3 years. The exception is Hua Zui, which was founded in 2012 and was regarded as a rare and scarce resource by the owners when the restaurant changed hands at The One Plaza, and by 2018, Hua Zui had become one of the few old restaurants left behind in the square.
The restaurant is located on the fourth floor of the plaza and has an outdoor open space, which is a unique environment. The decoration of the store has an industrial style, with a large number of clear water molds, steel, and wood elements, and there are flowers and trees in the store for the theme, and the atmosphere is not cold against this background. Sensitive diners may find that the vigorous flower decoration at the entrance of the restaurant extends to the outdoor terrace, while the interior part is mostly carved with dead branches and wood, and the designer says that the two space decorations refer to "life like summer flowers" and "death like autumn leaves" respectively, and the poem is from Zheng Zhenduo's translation of "Flying Birds", which is also the meaning of "flower drunk".
However, diners don't approve of all design aspects, and outdoor flower areas are clearly more popular. The founder claimed that the store decoration cost was more than 4 million, and the flowers in the store were also changed every 2 weeks, which was definitely a value-for-money environmental experience. Local diners may be reminded of the flower-filled Tingxiang restaurant in the narrow alley, which actually has the same founder as Hua Zui, and both restaurants are the owner's ingenious attempts to create a space for women to eat.
Whether you're obsessed with music or not, Flower Drunk is a great place to go on a date. At 19:30, 20:30 and 21:30 every night, the restaurant will arrange three singing performances, and each group of bands (singers) will perform for 30 minutes, and the rest of the interval time will be interspersed with online music. Therefore, the restaurant is not always immersed in a noisy state, and compared with other music restaurants, Huadrunk is more suitable for communication. Musical performances are not the core element of the show, but the artist's repertoire covers a wide range of genres, no matter what the diner's preference holds. According to the store's marketing plan, the singers in the 21:30 show are the most powerful, and some singers were selected as the "Nicholas Tse Team" of "The Voice of China".
In contrast, the flower drunk dish is a bit thin. The owner changed the cutlery at least in early 2018, but the presentation was still not amazing, and the style of the meal was close to that of the new Sichuan cuisine, but there were no creative elements such as dry ice to set the mood. In addition, in the 5 years since the establishment of the brand, the iteration of Huazui cuisine is not obvious, and compared with the restaurant and bar of Jiuyanqiao, Huazui seems plain and conservative. The peach blossom eel is salty and spicy, the eel is delicious and fat, and the lotus root and salt bamboo shoots are the side dishes, which are sour and crisp, and most customers are satisfied with this. Qingshui fish (spicy flavor) and rabbit flavor are inferior to high-quality Sichuan restaurants, but measured by the level of Chengdu music restaurants, the level of their meals is not easy.
For southern diners who are accustomed to a light diet, the flavor of flower drunkenness is generally salty. Try mint cowboy bones, which can slightly neutralize the salty and spicy flavors, but the bigger selling point is that the mint comes from a patio potted plant, which keeps the mint fresh, but also makes the mint flavor less stable. Bitan drifting snow soup is more "cool", the store is filled with a bowl of tea, the soup is green, it is actually made of fungus vegetables and tofu. It is mainly grown in southwest China, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a Sichuan specialty. The peculiarity of the flower drunk is that the soup is decorated with jasmine, with a special fragrance, which is scarce enough even in Sichuan, so you might as well try it.
The shortcomings of flower drunkenness lie in the fact that the flavor and quantity of the dishes are not very stable, which has also been criticized by diners. Due to the limitation of spare parts, many dishes will be sold out before 21:00, so consumers who intend to dine in the evening may wish to call in advance. In addition, although Hana Drunk switches to bar mode after 21:30, it is usually not open beyond 23:00.
