Saturday, August 28, 2010

Nobu

For coffee & dessert...

Green tea trifle mousse, vanilla brulee, almond & coconut meringue, milk chocolate ice cream, lime & vanilla foam

Tofu cheesecake, green tea crumble, berry compote

Mochi - Japanese handmade rice cakes - in green tea, strawberry & azuki bean flavours

- T

"Life is uncertain.  Eat dessert first."  ~Ernestine Ulmer

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Maze by Gordon Ramsay

The foul-mouthed chef's first Australian restaurant...

We had the 7 course degustation menu

I am obsessed with good bread. Served here with sea salt and seaweed butter.

Marinated beetroot with goats curd, Cabernet Sauvignon vinaigrette, toasted pine nuts

 Seared yellow fin tuna, white radish, yuzu, enoki mushrooms, black garlic 

Applewood smoked kingfish, fennel purée, pickled celery, globe artichoke, finger limes

Pan seared scallop, caramelised kelp, samphire, mussels, Champagne foam

Roasted quail, black olive caramel

 Pan roasted barramundi, butternut squash, compressed cucumber, pumpkin seeds

 Lamb cannon and shoulder, cauliflower purée, anchovy, stinging nettles

 Exotic fruit vacherin, passion fruit and banana sorbet

 Maze “lamington”, rosella jam

Petit fours - Bite-sized balls of strawberry ice cream dipped in creamy white chocolate!

 Complimentary Maze after-dinner sweets to take home

Love,
T x

"Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels.  There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled."  ~Frederic Raphael