Gaz called up wanting to book a place but they were full till July. Luckily they took pity on him and gave us a table last Thursday.
Our amuse bouche - tuna tartare with a pastry top. Needs a little seasoning, some parts of my tuna were a bit chewy. But hey it's free.
Gaz had a selection platter of 4 entrees - cauliflower soup in the cup, pan fried soy and honey quail, a vegetarian springroll with a very nicely balance dipping sauce of nam pla, garlic, lemon and also seared scallops on top of blood pudding. All of it were delicious.
My entree - seared scallops on blood sausage. I loved the blood sausage, just don't remind me what's in it!
My main - duck legs on lentils. The duck was just a tad overcooked, but the lentils was cooked very nicely.
Gaz's main of porterhouse steak and fat chips. Boy, the chips were FAT, but very crispy.
Gaz's dessert of a deconstructed apple pie. Deconstructed stuff is the in thing at the moment, I think. This one has stewed apples sandwiched between two pastry circles with cream on the side. I just love the mint on the top of the pile. So refreshing.
My entree of Sicilian doughnut and ice cream. The dough I'm sure was meant to be airy in the inside of the doughnut, but it turned out a bit doughy, probably not cooked very well. I don't like desserts anyway so Gaz polished all of mine and his. He said it's so that the students won't feel bad their food returned to the kitchen half eaten.
No pictures of the fabulous latte and chocolate truffles we had with them. At this point we were so stuffed they had to roll us out the door. For $26 a pop, I think we had a pretty good value meal! One thing though, the students should have taken a little bit more risk with their food... give the diners something interesting... more interesting than a deconstructed apple pie... next time perhaps.
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