Let's talk about Thursday night. I had such a tough time at work, I was late for a 5:30pm dinner at Sake Restaurant and Bar and had to call them to move it to 6pm. We don't have a lot of time for the 7:30pm show of Ballet Revolucion - which was amazing, btw! There's nothing like this fusion of ballet and Latin dancing. The band was outstanding and the dancers - well, let's just say it's like a PG view of Magic Mike. Anyway, let's talk about the food, shall we?So, we had the pre-theatre degustation @ 65AUD per person. I honestly thought that I won't get full from the food but surprisingly, they seriously served 3 servings of each dish. Everything I had was delicious and packed with flavour but sometimes I think the food is not really Japanese. But, honestly, it didn't bother me that much. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Cocktail lovers beware, Sake serves delicious and very well mixed drinks - all creative and inventive. Let's start with that. I had the Pink Blossom $18 consists of muddled fresh strawberries, Choya umeshu and cranberry juice shaken with passionfruit and freshly squeezed lime juice. This is such a girly drink but be warned - it has a very sour taste. I like it for its refreshing and tangy taste.
Next was the Nigami $18 that is their version of Negroni but I think this is better. It is sweet and has a deep orange flavour. It is sticky almost like eating an orange flavoured bun. Love it.Food-wise we had 5 dishes. The first one was, well, not really a dish but more of an appetiser - edamame. Moving on, japanese kingfish jalapeño. Fresh sashimi and reminded me a bit of what we had before at Supernormal but less citrus. The soy taste is stronger. I wish they had put less of it as it can be overpowering after the next bites.
Tempura soft shell crab. Ok. I love soft shell crab so I'm biased. The tempura batter made the crab really airy and light, making it feel as if you're eating fried crab flavoured clouds. What I didn't like though was the sauce. It's making me look for a wasabi based aioli. I think it will work well.
For our main, we had the char-coal lamb shoulder garlic white soy with salted sesame praline and toasted broken nori. It's delicious. It actually tasted like pork shoulder than lamb. I didn't care about the sesame praline though but I thought it was a nice touch. What I really loved though was the toasted sesame salad with shredded cabbage. I could eat this all day with the sesame dressing.
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