Our lastest gold is a little Japanese/french restaurant. It is located at 145 Devonshire street Surry Hills, just up the hill from Strawberry Hills hotel. We found it by chance (which was lucky) and bookings are pretty essential, even if you just phone the afternoon of the day you want dinner. There is a great little bar upstairs which is semi outside and is decorated like a japanese garden/temple.
Downstairs is the actual restaurant which is fairly simply decorated. The walls have posters of jazz musicians and some album covers etc. There is an exception however and that is the wall on the left as you walk in. It has a giant enamaled picture of a young girl's head with her hair in plaits. The end of each plait has a demonic teddy bear head...rather weird...not at all like anything else in the restaurant, but interesting never the less....Flit especially liked the gimp teddy head.
The food was great....the menu is set up like a tapas menu, you order a number of smallish dishes to share, they recommend 2 or 3 per person, but we found that 4 between the two of us was perfect. The dishes were all different enough so as not to get boring. We started with a shredded beetroot salad, then had some tempura with gorgeous herb coated chips, then came the obligatory sushi plate....very fresh and soft with fabulous wasabi. We finished the mains with a simple but very tasty teriyaki chicken. While the food was not unusual, it was well prepared and quite satisfying. The dessert kicked butt. We both got the Chocolate brulee, the most delicious brulee I've had in a long time....big call I know, but it was so fine I practically liked the ramekin clean!
Now while the food and decor were lovely, the final touch was the misic. This place seems to thrive on live jazz. They advertise a myriad of local and international jazz artists (not knowing much about Jazz I can't comment of how good the selection was) but the night we were there they had a duet playing who sang Ella Fitgerald, Fats Domino and other popular tunes I can't indentify by name. It was a great little trendy, fun and comfortable retaurant. Expect to pay about $60 per person with alcohol included (No byo on Fri to Sat, $4 corkage on Tues-Thurs, closed Sunday and Monday dinner). I give it about an 8 out of 10. Would love to take some of you there one day, otherwise its well worth a look by yourselves.
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Looks nice. We went to Longrain last week with Hannah, a nice thai restaurant in Surry Hills. Also a good pick, the food is great and the atmosphere is pretty nice too. The one hangup is that they don't take bookings so you have to turn up well in advance of when you want to eat (we waited about an hour and a half, luckily they have a cocktail bar area so its not like you are all standing in the street!)
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