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| - Not going to lie. I was a little skeptical of Nine 05 at first. I enjoyed it when it was Fate. It was simple, tasty, budget conscious late night grub.
So I rounded up my dining partner and rolled out to Nine 05 for a late Friday dinner.
The place was dead at 9:30.
We sat outside after waiting a moment for a table to be cleared. After being sat at what appeared to be high-end Ikea furniture, our server approached us with a menu and poured us water.
The menu consists of lots of tasty ingredients done in Asian ways.
We started with the pork belly crepe with hoison sauce and veggy spring rolls. (Which I think are actually summer rolls because they were wrapped in soft, spongy rice paper)
The pork crepe was warm, not hot. But it was delicious. Tasty braised pork belly, wrapped in an eggy crepe with some drizzles of Hoison sauce. The "spring" rolls were tasty, however standard they were.
For entrees we had the Duck Confit with Foie and Tofu Steak.
The Duck confit was a whole duck leg confit, with a medallion of foie gras on top. Some planks of corn accompanied it with micro greens. The duck was tender, as it should be and the lump of liver on top was a nice treat. The Tofu steak was served with a mixture of mushrooms and miso glaze. It was a decent chunk of grilled tofu.
We finished up with dessert. I had the Blueberry Mochi cake with passion fruit and Lychee sorbet. She had the chocolate decadent cake with chai ice cream and butterscotch.
The blueberry cake was good, but the lychee sorbet stole the show on that. The chocolate cake was very rich and the chai ice cream accompanied it very well.
We had a bottle of an effervescent sweet sake with our meal. It was delicious and tasted like pears.
In closing, it was a very nice meal to be had at 10pm. The food was tasty, creative and approachable.
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