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| - Had a chance to try this place after a long while of anticipation. Recommended by friends and peers as consistently inspired - on and off menu .
Seated as a 3 top walk in, tasting menu ($90pp at 9 courses) with cocktails.
Service was standard, water top ups, qualitied for every course, intermittent crumbing, dishes described.
Food was good in flavour, but I was expecting individual plates as opposed to a large format sharing tasting menu. Not that there was a problem... or that I didnt like sharing my plate... But it did make me question the value of each course from the food costing perspective.
Food notes:
- Third course, ricotta on focaccia + mushroom soup. Nice.
- Fourth course, seared black cod on too many carrots + hummus. It felt like someone had to empty their insert of cooked carrots for the end of the night (we were a late table)
- Seventh course, Popcorn apple crumble? The plate was dropped in my absence so I had to guess what I was eating. Great flavour balancing with all the components, but there was not enough of each component. There was too much ... crumble.. chunks to eat. Struggled. Server playfully suggested someone clear the plate. We finished it in a sad and reluctant manner.
- Ninth course, non existent. Apparently the chef decided our 7th course dessert was rich enough (hes not wrong) to conclude our dinner at the 8th course with macarons and toasted marshmallows. They reduced $15pp so its not necessarily a bad thing, just weird. Can only speculate that everyone wanted to go home and think about roasting less carrots.
Must also note that an individual in my party was feeling pretty ill (unrelated to the restaurant by any means) and it may have come off pretty scary for the serving staff, as he looked like he was dying at times. Our server wished this friend better as we left. Thank you.
I might forever wonder if it was the timing that ruined the results of my expectations at richmond station, but that experience was rich enough that I'm just not curious about coming back for my anticipated 9th course.
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