We’d been told the ‘Trust the Chef’ degustation was excellent so we gave it a try. We were blown away. We’ve had degustations in high end restaurants so to find such quality in this unassuming little place was a delightful surprise.
From the starter of...ceviche on some kind of fish cracker, warm smoked olives, pickled mussels and candied nuts, to the fresh oysters ( best I’ve ever tasted), prawns in a creamy polenta, crayfish in Jerusalem artichoke broth, snapper? sashimi with finger lime, flathead? in a bisque so good I had to restrain myself from licking the plate, to the nannygai with a perfect xo sauce ( I could eat it on its own by the spoonful), everything was perfect. Usually there are one or two things in a degustation that are a bit meh… not here.
And the dessert… omg! It was a quenelle of icecream on some kind of milk caramel? with candied crunchy fish scales, which sounds disgusting but it was the perfect balance of sweet and a bit salty like the very best salted caramel. The scales were light and crispy and delicious
My husband, who after two attempts has refused to eat mussels in the four decades we’ve been together, tentatively tried one and polished off the lot.
I gather the chef has interned with Heston Blumenthal so maybe that’s why there is such a perfect balance of surprising flavours and sweet and salty, or perhaps it’s the chef, but the end result was the best degustation we’ve had anywhere. That everything was not only fresh but also sustainable made it even better.
Highly recommended.More