February 7, 2010

Glass - Gold Coast

Glass is at the newly renovated Marina Mirage at the Gold Coast. Great Gold Coast views of big expensive yachts and blue water. The lunch menu has Tapas style dishes as well as a great seafood focused a la carte menu. The fresh seafood platter looked amazing with lobster and bugs etc. We tried a couple of the tapas style dishes and some entrees and they were all very good.

Angus beef tartare, eschalots, cornichon, tarragon and organic egg yolk, tempura onion rings and horshradish sorbet

Grilled 5 spice rubbed quail with smoked paprika aioli

Prawn lollipop with nuoc cham

Schezuan calamari salad, mixed leaves, red onions, tomato and glass dressing

Bitter chocolate tart with pomegranate coulis and sweetened mascarpone

November 19, 2009

Absynthe - Gold coast

Chef Meyjitte had two Michelin stars while working in Belgium. Here in Australia, he is at Absynthe which is on the Gold Coast and has been rated the best restaurant in Qld and has two GT stars this year. We were so looking forward to this meal and to trying his tasting menu. Unfortunately, everything that we wanted on the menu was not on the tasting menu so we went a la carte. What can I say. The food was very good. A chef like MB would do wonders in Sydney or Melbourne. Unfortunately the service and ambiance really let it down. Even though the food was amazing, the service was not very good and took away form the pleasure of the meal.