Scarlet prawn and noodles @ester_au is the most delicious plate I’ve eaten in Oz. Separate the body, squeeze the head juice out and stir the fresh noodles through. The legs were deep fried till crispy. Can’t remember ever eating a sweeter more prawny prawn. Beef and oyster tartare on a beef fat cracker runs it a close second. The other dishes enjoyable in a eclectic way. Potato bread was amazing with the trout roe and kefir but didn’t need the overwhelming dashi jelly. Deeply mineral blue mackerel with soy dressing clashing slightly with the buttermilk of the carrot dish. Black XO tasting of charred nam prik pao was delicious and very nickable. A few interesting indigenous ingredients, the salt bush providing a clean crunch on top of superb hangar steak. I can see why Ester is so highly regarded. Its wild eclecticism and globally influenced techniques tick all the boxes for the modern savvy gastronome
