Europea Restaurant fed us what may be one of the most memorable meals we'll ever have.
If I were to list all of the food they brought us (it's so much more than what you order) this review would be a few pages long, so I'll resist and give you what you need to know.
This is a beautiful restaurant - very classy and romantic setting. The service is impeccable. Everyone is friendly, polite and patient (describing dishes again and again) and our server was also hilarious, with a very dry sense of humour.
Not all of the food ranks with the most delicious I've ever had, though it's all very tasty, but the creativity and artistry with which it's presented is... well it's just really something else. Once you've had a book that lets out a cloud of fragrant wood smoke brought to you to find a single piece of gravlax on lemon cream in a pastry shell inside, you can't really think of a cooler way to have salmon served to you.
Favourite dishes of the many we were brought were the tagliatelle of calamari and the lobster cream cappuccino. The madeleines and macarons we were served with dessert were also exceptionally good.
This is a very pricey night out, but even at this cost going once is worth it if you can appreciate experiencing food as a total sensory experience rather than based on taste alone. If you are all about big portions of delicious food (and I can definitely appreciate that), this might not be the restaurant for you, but I'm so glad that we got to go.