Since nosotros moved to Melbourne we've been edifice upward a tradition of fancy degustation feasts to celebrate our respective birthdays. People who've been with us for years volition retrieve our gob-smacked enjoyment of Andrew McConnell's onetime house Three, One, Two means dorsum inwards 2007 as well as our follow-up see inwards 2008. It's taken us a piece to actually elbow grease out McConnell's novel place, Cutler as well as Co - certain nosotros sampled a neat lunch finally year, as well as we've breakfasted at his other articulation Cumulus Inc, but nosotros hadn't got our human activeness together as well as tried out a actually fancy repast there. So this twelvemonth I decided to larn far my birthday venue.
Unlike Three, One, Two the vegie degustation isn't a criterion choice - nosotros allow them know ahead of fourth dimension that nosotros were keen as well as they were to a greater extent than than happy to adjust us. The degustation is 8 courses - half dozen savoury as well as 2 sugariness - for $100 a pop.
Things started off with the obligatory breadstuff - sourdough this time. It was every bit delicious every bit ever, but I intend I generally savour the breadstuff at these places because of the licence to smear it with awesome butter as well as salt.
The kickoff existent shape was a pick of four entrees:
Rye crackers with horseradish as well as fresh radishes,
Weird parmesan as well as tapioca crackers (right) as well as goats cheese cigars with olive pulverization (left)
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 pick of marinated olives (you'll annotation that I was besides impatient to hold back for the photos as well as there's already a lonely pit sitting in that location inwards the pit-bucket.
These were all excellent, a cavalcade of flavour as well as texture - crispness, creaminess, weird powders, tender olives. All real impressive. The undoubted star were the cigars - filled with a wonderfully creamy caprine animal cheese within these crisp footling cylinders, all sitting on a dehydrated olive powder. I would direct maintain been happy if these came out with every course.
Instead, nosotros were adjacent served upward this footling delight:
baby beetroot served on creme fraiche as well as smoked onion ceviche, with rye cracker twigs, dill, footling beetroot jelly cubes as well as fresh light-green capsicum. The creme fraiche was lightly tangy as well as impossible smooth, piece the beetroot had a sweeter sense of savor than I expected. This was or as well as then other textural adventure: crunchy crackers, crisp capsicum, jellied beetroot as well as tender infant beet. The dill was a footling overpowering when you lot big bits of it inwards a unmarried mouthful but otherwise it worked brilliantly.
Next upward was an unphotographed dish (can't fifty-fifty blame booze for this oversight) - a carrot salad with raw, cooked as well as pickled carrot, with walnut cream as well as shanklish. This was a cute riff on the carrot theme, with crisp raw carrots, black as well as soft cooked carrot as well as slivers of tart carrot pickle. There were a few to a greater extent than radishes inwards in that location every bit well, along with or as well as then pieces of slightly candied walnut as well as the mild shanklish as well as walnut cream.
The next dish was in all likelihood our pick of the bunch: slippery jack mushrooms, pomme anna as well as nettle.
The footling bundle of finely sliced as well as fried potatoes was exactly amazing. Most of you lot volition know Cindy's obsession with all things chip-related, as well as this left her unable to fifty-fifty beak - perhaps the potato-highlight of the year. The slippery jacks were their commons odd, slightly squishy texture, but were cooked beautifully as well as had a mild, buttery flavour. They were served atop a Jerusalem artichoke puree with vanilla as well as beneath a nettle topping, which was a welcome sight of greenery with a plate of fried goodness. But really, this was all nearly the potato. Stunning.
Things shifted gears over again next, going from a hearty fried treat, to something to a greater extent than fragile as well as stewy - a leek bourride, with fregola, smoked Lycopersicon esculentum as well as mustard cream.
The mustard cream made this dish, with the residue serving almost every bit vessels for it's creamy goodness. The tiny pasta pieces were a prissy textural variation, piece the leeks were soft as well as had soaked inwards enough of the glorious mustard cream.
Our finally savoury was billed every bit a form of principal dish, with 2 plates coming out: a footling rectangle of baked ricotta, served with a raw populace artichoke as well as fennel salad.
The salad was tart as well as fresh as well as the cheese-prism was lite as well as crumbly - Cindy noted that on its own, this plate would brand for a great boundary entree. But it came with something to a greater extent than seasonally appropriate, this hearty eggplant mush, sprinkled with almonds.
It was warming as well as hearty, with a prissy mix of crispy roasted nuts as well as soft as well as gooey eggplant mush. It was also filling - at this phase nosotros were both glad that it was fourth dimension to motility on to dessert.
First upward was a Mandarin as well as carrot granita, served with sheep's milk yoghurt.
This was ameliorate than either of us expected - the fine cylinders of raw carrot had been soaked inwards something sugariness as well as delicious, piece the icy granita as well as sugariness biscuit crumbs were similar powdered goodness. Throw inwards a few plump Mandarin pieces as well as or as well as then amazing yoghurt as well as you've got a wonderful refreshing treat.
But a chocolate-less treat. So it was lucky that our concluding shape brought the chocolate: purplish H2O ice cream, chocolate ganachek, clove meringue, freeze-dried raspberries, or as well as then classify of nutty sponge as well as chocolate powder.
This was astonishing - the footling ruddy pellets were concentrated raspberry flavour, the ganache was ridiculously chocolatey, as well as the purplish H2O ice cream was floral without beingness weird. Combined, this was exactly a heavenly plate - all the flavours as well as textures (the meringue added or as well as then mash to all the powders as well as creaminess) working together to brand something wonderful. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 perfect goal to the meal, as well as the alone dish to compete with the murphy as well as mushrooms every bit the night's winner.
Cutler as well as Co actually plough it on with the degustation - our repast made stars of beetroot, carrot, mustard cream, fried potato, goats cheese, eggplant, Mandarin as well as ricotta, with each shape highlighting the restaurant's wonderful ingredients as well as inventive cooking. The service throughout was impeccable, as well as the twain of spectacles of vino I had were great - I tin dismiss intend of literally zip to complain nearly except for our inability to larn a booking earlier 8:30 as well as hence eating yesteryear xi at night. But it's pop for a reason, people, as well as then larn booking.
Read nearly our previous see to Cutler as well as Co here.
For the completist, brand your means through the dozens of C & C reviews at: Saucy Thyme, Melbourne Dining, Melbourne Gastronome, Melbourne's Bargain Foodie, Doublecooked, Eat (almost) Anything at Least Once, See. Smell. Taste., Record, rewind, play, 1001 dinners 1001 nights, The Chronices of Ms I-Hua, Munching inwards Melbourne, Off the Spork
Unlike Three, One, Two the vegie degustation isn't a criterion choice - nosotros allow them know ahead of fourth dimension that nosotros were keen as well as they were to a greater extent than than happy to adjust us. The degustation is 8 courses - half dozen savoury as well as 2 sugariness - for $100 a pop.
Things started off with the obligatory breadstuff - sourdough this time. It was every bit delicious every bit ever, but I intend I generally savour the breadstuff at these places because of the licence to smear it with awesome butter as well as salt.The kickoff existent shape was a pick of four entrees:
Rye crackers with horseradish as well as fresh radishes,
Weird parmesan as well as tapioca crackers (right) as well as goats cheese cigars with olive pulverization (left)
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 pick of marinated olives (you'll annotation that I was besides impatient to hold back for the photos as well as there's already a lonely pit sitting in that location inwards the pit-bucket.
These were all excellent, a cavalcade of flavour as well as texture - crispness, creaminess, weird powders, tender olives. All real impressive. The undoubted star were the cigars - filled with a wonderfully creamy caprine animal cheese within these crisp footling cylinders, all sitting on a dehydrated olive powder. I would direct maintain been happy if these came out with every course.Instead, nosotros were adjacent served upward this footling delight:
baby beetroot served on creme fraiche as well as smoked onion ceviche, with rye cracker twigs, dill, footling beetroot jelly cubes as well as fresh light-green capsicum. The creme fraiche was lightly tangy as well as impossible smooth, piece the beetroot had a sweeter sense of savor than I expected. This was or as well as then other textural adventure: crunchy crackers, crisp capsicum, jellied beetroot as well as tender infant beet. The dill was a footling overpowering when you lot big bits of it inwards a unmarried mouthful but otherwise it worked brilliantly.Next upward was an unphotographed dish (can't fifty-fifty blame booze for this oversight) - a carrot salad with raw, cooked as well as pickled carrot, with walnut cream as well as shanklish. This was a cute riff on the carrot theme, with crisp raw carrots, black as well as soft cooked carrot as well as slivers of tart carrot pickle. There were a few to a greater extent than radishes inwards in that location every bit well, along with or as well as then pieces of slightly candied walnut as well as the mild shanklish as well as walnut cream.
The next dish was in all likelihood our pick of the bunch: slippery jack mushrooms, pomme anna as well as nettle.
The footling bundle of finely sliced as well as fried potatoes was exactly amazing. Most of you lot volition know Cindy's obsession with all things chip-related, as well as this left her unable to fifty-fifty beak - perhaps the potato-highlight of the year. The slippery jacks were their commons odd, slightly squishy texture, but were cooked beautifully as well as had a mild, buttery flavour. They were served atop a Jerusalem artichoke puree with vanilla as well as beneath a nettle topping, which was a welcome sight of greenery with a plate of fried goodness. But really, this was all nearly the potato. Stunning.Things shifted gears over again next, going from a hearty fried treat, to something to a greater extent than fragile as well as stewy - a leek bourride, with fregola, smoked Lycopersicon esculentum as well as mustard cream.
The mustard cream made this dish, with the residue serving almost every bit vessels for it's creamy goodness. The tiny pasta pieces were a prissy textural variation, piece the leeks were soft as well as had soaked inwards enough of the glorious mustard cream.Our finally savoury was billed every bit a form of principal dish, with 2 plates coming out: a footling rectangle of baked ricotta, served with a raw populace artichoke as well as fennel salad.
The salad was tart as well as fresh as well as the cheese-prism was lite as well as crumbly - Cindy noted that on its own, this plate would brand for a great boundary entree. But it came with something to a greater extent than seasonally appropriate, this hearty eggplant mush, sprinkled with almonds.It was warming as well as hearty, with a prissy mix of crispy roasted nuts as well as soft as well as gooey eggplant mush. It was also filling - at this phase nosotros were both glad that it was fourth dimension to motility on to dessert.First upward was a Mandarin as well as carrot granita, served with sheep's milk yoghurt.
This was ameliorate than either of us expected - the fine cylinders of raw carrot had been soaked inwards something sugariness as well as delicious, piece the icy granita as well as sugariness biscuit crumbs were similar powdered goodness. Throw inwards a few plump Mandarin pieces as well as or as well as then amazing yoghurt as well as you've got a wonderful refreshing treat.But a chocolate-less treat. So it was lucky that our concluding shape brought the chocolate: purplish H2O ice cream, chocolate ganachek, clove meringue, freeze-dried raspberries, or as well as then classify of nutty sponge as well as chocolate powder.
This was astonishing - the footling ruddy pellets were concentrated raspberry flavour, the ganache was ridiculously chocolatey, as well as the purplish H2O ice cream was floral without beingness weird. Combined, this was exactly a heavenly plate - all the flavours as well as textures (the meringue added or as well as then mash to all the powders as well as creaminess) working together to brand something wonderful. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 perfect goal to the meal, as well as the alone dish to compete with the murphy as well as mushrooms every bit the night's winner.Cutler as well as Co actually plough it on with the degustation - our repast made stars of beetroot, carrot, mustard cream, fried potato, goats cheese, eggplant, Mandarin as well as ricotta, with each shape highlighting the restaurant's wonderful ingredients as well as inventive cooking. The service throughout was impeccable, as well as the twain of spectacles of vino I had were great - I tin dismiss intend of literally zip to complain nearly except for our inability to larn a booking earlier 8:30 as well as hence eating yesteryear xi at night. But it's pop for a reason, people, as well as then larn booking.
Read nearly our previous see to Cutler as well as Co here.
For the completist, brand your means through the dozens of C & C reviews at: Saucy Thyme, Melbourne Dining, Melbourne Gastronome, Melbourne's Bargain Foodie, Doublecooked, Eat (almost) Anything at Least Once, See. Smell. Taste., Record, rewind, play, 1001 dinners 1001 nights, The Chronices of Ms I-Hua, Munching inwards Melbourne, Off the Spork
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