After Emma's glowing recommendation of this restuarant we decided to eat at Silk's Brasserie - Leura for our 5th Anniversary - and I couldn't recommend it highly enough.
From start to finish it was possibly the best meal we have ever eaten.
I had good feelings about the place as soon as we walked in. It was warm with a mordern yet Art Deco feel. We were greated by staff who were so nice, and they were 'grown ups' too - not young kids who didn't know which wine to recommend or anything like that.
When the bread came out as we ummed and ahhed over the menu I said to Murray that I had a good feeling about that place - I'd never had good bread and a bad meal.
Murray couldn't decide on a main he liked, so he actually ordered three entres!
For his first entre he had...
Provençale fish soup with baby squid, prawns, aioli & toasted brioche - which he said was the best soup he'd ever had.
And for his second entre it was Sautéed scallops, shiitake mushrooms & pumpkin, served with a cucumber, daikon & coriander salad - which he said was also fantastic. I tried some of the pumpkin, and I wasn't overly impressed by it, but it just wasn't 'my flavors'.
I had the Shortcrust tartlet of Jannei goat curd, pickled pear, confit tomato, cress salad & hazelnut dressing . It was like I had died and gone to heaven. The creaminess of the goats cheese, the sweetness of hte pear, the tartness of the tomato, the hazelnuts sprinkled on top - all of it was magnificent. Orgasmic.
For Murrays third entre he had Home-made gnocchi with sage, asparagus tips, Roaring Forties blue cheese cream & a parmesan straw - which again, he said was magnificent! I'm not a gnocchi person, but even I thought it was pretty good.
I had Roast breast of corn-fed chicken on braised red cabbage with black pudding, pine nuts, muscatels & jus. I was a little concerned about the combination of foods - but I was in heaven again.
I never wanted to leave this place and so continued on with desert. I could only manage a Bailey's Afforgato, but Murray-the-bottomless-pit managed some of a cheese platter as well.
Just when we thouogh we couldn't possibly eat another thing they brought out some almond truffles. And even the complimentary truffles were the best I'd ever had.
Not a cheap night out, especially after adding the wine - but it was worth every cent - and we would have paid twice that much for it.
We would drive the hour and a half up there just to go out for dinner.
Absolutely amazing.
From start to finish it was possibly the best meal we have ever eaten.
I had good feelings about the place as soon as we walked in. It was warm with a mordern yet Art Deco feel. We were greated by staff who were so nice, and they were 'grown ups' too - not young kids who didn't know which wine to recommend or anything like that.
When the bread came out as we ummed and ahhed over the menu I said to Murray that I had a good feeling about that place - I'd never had good bread and a bad meal.
Murray couldn't decide on a main he liked, so he actually ordered three entres!
For his first entre he had...
Provençale fish soup with baby squid, prawns, aioli & toasted brioche - which he said was the best soup he'd ever had.
And for his second entre it was Sautéed scallops, shiitake mushrooms & pumpkin, served with a cucumber, daikon & coriander salad - which he said was also fantastic. I tried some of the pumpkin, and I wasn't overly impressed by it, but it just wasn't 'my flavors'.
I had the Shortcrust tartlet of Jannei goat curd, pickled pear, confit tomato, cress salad & hazelnut dressing . It was like I had died and gone to heaven. The creaminess of the goats cheese, the sweetness of hte pear, the tartness of the tomato, the hazelnuts sprinkled on top - all of it was magnificent. Orgasmic.
For Murrays third entre he had Home-made gnocchi with sage, asparagus tips, Roaring Forties blue cheese cream & a parmesan straw - which again, he said was magnificent! I'm not a gnocchi person, but even I thought it was pretty good.
I had Roast breast of corn-fed chicken on braised red cabbage with black pudding, pine nuts, muscatels & jus. I was a little concerned about the combination of foods - but I was in heaven again.
I never wanted to leave this place and so continued on with desert. I could only manage a Bailey's Afforgato, but Murray-the-bottomless-pit managed some of a cheese platter as well.
Just when we thouogh we couldn't possibly eat another thing they brought out some almond truffles. And even the complimentary truffles were the best I'd ever had.
Not a cheap night out, especially after adding the wine - but it was worth every cent - and we would have paid twice that much for it.
We would drive the hour and a half up there just to go out for dinner.
Absolutely amazing.
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