Quay

8 Reviews on “Quay”

• Riceflakes

  Quay rating – new menu in July 2018Had the 10 course mealSad to say it was average, compared to Sepia, Bennelong and TetsuyaI had high expectations for quay’s new refurbished restaurant and menu.We had a pork starter, which was nice, it was a blend of pork crackling on a wafer. Very crunchy and savoury.Oyster intervention – oyster flavoured dreamy dish. Good concept, capturing the oyster profile without actually serving oyster. Was not mind blowing, but good techniques.Pea garden – found a black hair on my pea garden . Looked gorgeously green but underneath the greenery there was a black hair. Immediately sent it back to the kitchen, staff was quite apologetic. I mean I was dining in a 3 hat restaurant paying $275 per person, this was a big effing deal.Hand harvested seafood – star of the show. Phenomenal sashimi dish, very fresh take on various seafood and the vinegar dressing enhanced the natural seafood flavours.Sand crab – nice plump claw meat. Not mind blowing but very fresh. Was told by the waitress that the crab was quite sustainable, claw is used in quay and the rest of its body goes elsewhere to be used by other chefs.Crumpets & truffle butter – standard bread and butter side dish for any fine dining establishment really. Truffle season is on so received extra truffles.Tasmanian uni in winter broth – the dish encourages the guest to interact with their dish. Broth brought out the creamy flavours in sea urchin and added a nice mellow savoury body. Good play on texture, creamy, salty, savoury, fresh.Smokedjowl – solid dish but no skin crackling. Just a melt-in-the-mouth 5mm renderedfat layer on the pork. Flavours were savoury and smoky but I wasn’t digging thefat layer. I left a layer of fat on my dish.Maremma duck with red dates – this one was atrocious. Duck skin was so charred it wasn’t rendered it was just burnt. It was bitter and the duck meat was so tough and chewy I was appalled. The meat was rare, I was shocked it was chewy. By this stage I just wanted to get it over and done with, so I didn’t bother sending the dish back. The gaps between the courses were too long. Sepia does a way better job at executing duck, in flavours and texture. Horrible dish.Cheese dish – complimentary because I found a hair on my dish earlier. Nice gesture and looked artistic but tasted disappointing. It tasted like a bland mild unaged shaving of cheese.Signature quay chocolate cake – complimentary and nice. Bring your own candle if you’re having a birthday celebration, they don’t stock candles. It tasted like how it always tasted, dark chocolate and very rich. Thanks quay.Crystallised oloroso caramel prune cream – this dish is not chilled. This was served ambient, which I think ruined the dish. It literally tastes like caramel and cream underneath crushed popping candy that did not pop. It is so ordinary and not mind blowing. Like your standard caramel creme and milk cream you could buy from Woollies. It wasn’t pleasant to eat as it was not Chilled. Disappointment. Why this was part of the degustation is beyond me.White Coral – this dessert is an amazing one. Like eating white chocolate ice cream with white chocolate topping. Great dessert.Overall my main experience with the refurbished quay was absolutely disappointing. Imagine sitting down from 6.15pm and leaving at 11pm because it took that long, and having to pay $275 for the food and extra for drinks. I just wanted to getout of there, as the dishes weren’t amazing.The alcoholic and mocktail drinks were great and they didn’t charge me for the white tea I had.As a farewell gift they gave us a valrhona chocolate bar each, a very nice gesture.My friend had a vegetarian degustation with us, it was nice, a lot of mushrooms in the menu, but then again the standard menu had a lot of veg to begin with.The staff was very hospitable, they took my group upstairs to show us the Opera house and harbour Bridge views from the function room view, and showcased their $500,000 artwork working on algorithm. Very cool Experience. The artwork is digital and constantly changing depending on weather conditions in Tokyo.Like I said the best dishes were the sashimi and the white Coral. I would never go back to Quay again, but if I have to, I would only order those 2 dishes.Bennelong dishes and Sepia disgustation blow the new Quay menu out of the water.

  November 11, 2020, 4:35 am

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