First course was sashimi for everyone except the birthday girl who had the eel soup. I didn't try the eel but I'm told it was very nice (if there was more of it I would have).
The salmon and tuna sashimi was fantastic. I especially loved the pieces that were coated in sesame oil and sesame seeds. I love sesame oil!!!
Second course was salmon and scallop. The scallop and the salmon were both delicious, but overall this dish was just okay. The salmon was a little too cooked for my tastes, but still good.
The birthday girl's dish of caviar angel hair pasta had a really nice flavour that made me wish I had ordered it for myself.
Oceans. It took forever for this dish to come out. We were all making stupid, hunger-induced comments about them draining the ocean and how we can't wait for the flood of oceans to engulf us and choosing who would get the Pacific Ocean and who gets the Indian Ocean etc. Anyway. There were a lot of different elements in this dish, not all of them necessarily good. I wasn't a fan of the bitter sprout things, they ruined it a little. The prawns were too salty. The fish roe was annoying (I don't like fish roe, the sensation of little balls of salt popping in my mouth is unpleasant. That's what she said!!). The barramundi was alright though. The best thing about this was the miso sauce on the barramundi. The small smear of sriracha on the plate was a little strange, it didn't seem to go with the flavours.
Dessert! The espresso pannacotta with coffee "jerry" [sic] (I laughed a lot) was nice, but it got a bit monotonous after a while. The jelly wasn't all that flavourful.
The blood orange and coconut gelato was actually more like sorbet than gelato to be honest, but it was still good. Everyone seemed to think the blood orange flavour was really sour, but I found it quite sweet. The coconut flavour was very subtle and sweet and creamier than the blood orange but still kinda sorbet-like.
While I did enjoy the prettiness of the plating and the (mostly) delicious food, the price and the excessive time between courses makes me not want to come back. Yes, it's fine dining, but it wasn't really worth it in this case. Yes, it was a busy Wednesday night, but they were all bookings, so they would have known in advance. There are a few fine dining restaurants I would rather spend my money at instead, like Nobu or No4 Blake Street.
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