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| Kingfish |
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| Steak |
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Present: Ron, John, Karen, Jim, Megan, Kim
Topics: Retirement, travel, Food
Ah Sage, you've done it again. Another excellent meal making it still my
favourite restaurant in Canberra.
During April they were offering surprise degustation menus
and asking for our comments. They were experimenting with new dishes and were
intending to base their new menu on the feedback they got.
For starters, Kingfish with cucumber granita, korean radish.
The kingfish was delicate, superb and worked well with the chilli. The cucumber granita kind of disappeared,
melted into nothing.
The soup, pumpkin with chestnut foam and parsnip strips was
superb.. The sweet pumpkin was
complemented by the foam. The
cranberries were a bit odd though, and I can see from their current menu that
they have taken them off. The other
comment we made was that the parsnip strips were excellent, but more please.
The next up was tea smoked chicken breast with pistachio
crust, dried and rehydrated carrot and sesame snow. The presentation was
fabulous, first tastes were a delight but after a while it lost its zing, the
carrot didn't add much, the carrot mousse okay, sesame foam brilliant but the
chicken too meaty and dry. Why do
restaurants insist on using chicken breast instead of the much more succulent
thigh?
The eye fillet with mushrooms, spinach crust, foie gras had
great flavours, the mushrooms and foie gras worked well. The spinach crust tasted great but it looked
a bit odd, a lump of green stuff on top of the beef. I note it is still on the menu, hope they've
done something about the presentation.
And the dessert got top marks from us, pear with a chestnut cookie
crumble, burnt cinamon icecream, caramal glaze.
Perfect, but I note that it is not on their current menu, so the dishes
that made it must be pretty good!
Ambience in Sage is good, but there was some thump thump
music in the background, we could only hear the bass so it didn't add too
much. Didn't take away much either. The service was good, waitress chatty, almost
too chatty. There is no corkage of your
own wine if you buy one of theirs, and we received complementary dessert wine
which went down well. A memorable meal!
