Supernormal is open all day without a break between the lunch and dinner services. It is great for people like us who do not mind eating at any hour of the day. Lunch at three? No problems. Dinner at five? Yup. Snack at four, supper at seven? Perfect.
We arrived at Supernormal at three, well past the lunch rush. We were ushered to a booth table in no time at all. I did not like the cold steel topped tables and the rustic little metal plates they used to serve pumpkin seeds in. But they fit in with the industrial theme of the restaurant and the pumpkin seeds were complimentary.
We ordered steamed grouper, clams, soy dashi and wakame $35. See the muslin like clump on top of the dish? It's wakame layered upon wakame to form a block then dried and shaved. It melts in the mouth to nothingness, leaving only a sweet taste and a sense of wonderment and curiosity of what it is.
The broth so delicious and tasty that we almost licked the bowl clean.
New England lobster roll $16. I placed a pumpkin seed on the plate for size comparison. The roll is roughly half the size of my palm.
After hearing so much about the lobster roll, I had high expectations for it. It was good, the brioche was sweet and buttery and I liked the mayo in the bun but I found the lobster meat to be quite chewy.
Gaz thought the smell and taste of the bun reminded him of McDonald's Fillet O' Fish burger and it did too for me! Perhaps it was because of the mix of sugar and smell of mayo.
The rice cracker with pickled onion and Tasmanian sea urchin was a special of the day. It was $5 per cracker. The cracker was light and crunchy. The sea urchin I thought should have been creamy was more gelatinous but went well with the pickled onion.
The food was fresh, innovative and of good quality. But like most fancy restaurants, we did not feel full afterwards.
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