Thursday, February 4, 2010

Essence Restaurant, Marriott Hotel

Location: Cnr of Lonsdale & Exhibition Street, Melbourne
Link: http://www.essence.melbournemarriott.com.au/
Cuisine: modern Australian


Main:


Seared Tasmanian salmon with eggplant moussaka and a fennel orange salad


The salmon was overdone. It was a bit too dry for my liking. The moussaka was very average.



Dessert:

Hot chocolate fondant with coconut ice cream


The hot chocolate fondant was quite nice, oozing chocolate in the middle. The coconut ice cream was a joke. It tasted like supermarket vanilla ice cream with dessicated coconut stirred through it. The random cookie on the plate was out of place, had a small bite and it tasted stale.



Overall Impression: 3/10

Dissapointing. Wait staff tried extremely hard though. Each table is assigned to one waiter which is nice but there is such a thing as trying too hard. Our waiter kept asking us if everything was ok etc. Very average food.

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