Everyone and anyone who has been priviledged to dine at Sydney's multi-award winning restaurant would rave endlessly about their experience. I had to make 3 mths advance booking to get our spot in conjuction with our 2nd anniversarry. The place was like a prison outside, hidden behind stainless steel gates, with actively rotating CCTV cameras. But once inside, the building is modestly decorated with a Zen garden (that has a pond with no fish!). Service was obviously top-class , as was the food. Here is what i remember about our 10-course degustation menu:
Entrees:
1. Mushroom and chestnut consomme flavoured with truffles (5 lip-smacking stars)
2. Leek and crab custard (5 lip-licking stars)
3. Smoked ocean trout with avruga caviar ( 4.5 bon appetit stars)
4. 3-styles scampi: au naturale in olive oil, grilled with prosciutto, and in a passionfruit-tomato vinagrette (5 thumbs up stars)
Mains:
5. Confit of Petuna Tasmanian Ocean trout with konbu, daikon and fennel with seasonal green salad. (Chef's special!)
6. Ravioli of blue spanner crab in a tomato and basil vinaigrette (4 tasty stars)
7. Grilled fillet of barramundi with braised baby fennel (3.5 yummy stars)
8. Twice-cooked de-boned spatchcock with capers and olive jus (4 finger-licking stars)
9. Grilled wagyu beef with line and wasabi (DK rates best ever!)
Dessert:
9. Chestnut cream mont blanc with salted meringue (ding ding ding!! best tasting, most unique dessert i've ever had)
10. Granny smith green apple sorbet with apple jelly mont blanc (3 stars)
11. Chocolate terrine with mascarpone and cognac anglaise (4 sweet tooth fairy stars)
For 2 extremely wai-sek people, we had a wonderful 3.5 hour dinner. Thanks babe!
