Lightner continues to dazzle with a dozen or so main courses on a set tasting menu.
The tasting menu will be served in a wine room in the basement, Mr. Issa said.
On the tasting menu, which varies from night to night, innovative, delightful, and just plain weird touches abound.
Cosy up near the piano in the adjacent La Taberna lounge with a Skittles-infused cordial before sampling the chef's tasting menu.
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Diners praise the six-course tasting menu, which covers culinary ground with everything from a local foie gras to chef Giovanni Apollo's masterful chocolate dessert creations.
Beef, previously eaten by only the patrician, is now the star of tasting menus across the country be it a standing tasting menu or a special event.
Five nights a week, a fantastical tasting menu emerges from the brain of Fredrik Berselius, a young Swede who previously ran the pop-up restaurant Frej in the same place.
Since 2009, it's been helmed by executive chef Bruno Davaillon (recently of the Mix at THEhotel at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas), whose sumptuous seasonal tasting menu would give Fearing a run for his toque.
The highlight is the multi-course tasting menu at its onsite restaurant, which serves a deliciously modern take on Slovenian cuisine, such as Adriatic sea bream laced with truffles in a spice-rich teran sauce, with local wines to match.
Two years on you can dine on fresh sea urchin roe and quivering tuna belly at the izakaya and sushi restaurant Kushi, and around the corner is the Passenger, an artisan cocktail bar that hosts private tasting menu events.
Many of the dishes are things you will never have seen before, even if you love Thai food, and they offer a 5-course tasting menu where you pick one dish from each category (curry, salad, soup, etc.) for a full-blown Thai flavor experience, one that can be expertly paired with wines.
For big-ticket dinners, Tetsuya Wakuda's Zen-like restaurant Tetsuya's in the central business district lives up to the hype and his world-class reputation: The nightly tasting menu features exhilarating combinations of flavors and the superlative ingredients for which Australia, and specifically Tasmania, are known, such as confit of Tasmanian ocean trout with konbu, daikon and fennel, and Spring Bay (Tasmanian) scallop with wakame and lemon.
Perhaps the most typical Sydney experience, though, is seafood with a view--Pier Restaurant and its recent front-room addition, Pier Tasting Room, with a sampling menu and ample list of wines by the glass, have sensational fish and a sparkling water view overlooking the scenic inlet of Rose Bay.
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