Jaaks Restaurant and Bar — Restaurant in Sydney

Greek food turned into an amazing experience one will never forget. The entrees were, Tilba halloumi with truffle honey. Charcoal Macaroon salted with tarama. And Pasturma tarts with garlic yoghurt, mint, and ouzo compressed cucumber. And all these entrees gave this explosion of texture and flavours that made my taste buds fall in love. Then came this salad which didn't look like a salad as I have known salads to be. The salad had a tomato marshmallow, shaved feta, dehydrated olives, capsicum gel, fresh oregano, and a consommè of cucumber, vinegar and olive oil. This was where science met cooking and boy did the two fuse together to make a wonderful culinary delight that you need to try.

Then we had our pickled octopus, which was so good that I stole my friends serving as they were allergic. This reminded me of a Japanese style octopus dish. Then came the duck well the Maremma duck was served with kefalograviera covered cornmeal and a xinomavro jus. The duck was cooked to perfection when eaten with the crusted cornmeal and jus the flavours were just Devine, and last savoury course was the lamb sheftalia made from slow cooked lamb neck, potato and feta dauphinoise, and tahini yoghurt. The lamb neck was so tender and totally amazing with the tahini yoghurt. Finally the dessert was rizogalo with fresh raspberries burnt sugar and white chocolate. What a way to end a culinary exploration of senses and tastes I never thought I had truly amazing.

I truly appreciated the amazing food and hope you will try out...

I can only give 5 stars to this restaurant! If you follow my reviews I tend to carefully preselect the places I go and I have to say it was definitely worth the 30min trip. If you don’t have great knowledge of Greek cuisine I strongly recommend the fixed taste menu @ just $59 and the extras plus some wine from their quite wide selection, to bad bad they don’t have them all by the glass but what they offer is enough for your first time there. Location is great, quite and near the water, the place is well designed and therefore not to noisy. The food is amazing and I would suggest adding their add-ons to the fixed menu, especially the Sheftalies (pork meat balls with roasted eggplant in tahini sauce and chilly butter)...plus some of the seasoning and veggies from the little side garden they made outside. Staff is incredibly friendly and helpful. With the add-ons and wine you might pass the $100/pp but, again, this is a must go place and it is definitely worth it. There is NO DOUBT we will be back...and next time we’ll take the baby with us considering that place and location are suitable. We have booked via Google link and found everything was ready without calling back to confirm...sometimes restaurants promote the online booking but you have to call them to find it has not been booked, here no problems whatsoever. Thanks to all of you guys and till the next time.

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Eating at Jaak’s has been a dreadful and disgusting experience. I have never met staff that were so rude and disrespectful to me and my family in front of my little children who were two years old. The staff member were screaming at us with exceptional amounts of profanity and threatening us in a very aggressive manner. The owner of the restaurant was inviting more of his staff to bully us and belittle us while we were having a conversation with the owner about the food. They continued to speak to us with profanity while my children were there. My children were afraid as the staff members continued screaming at our family beside the fact that my children were crying. The food was good but unfortunately the attitude and the aggressive manner that the owner spoke to us in I wil never ever go back. As a paying customer I have never been so disgusted. The manner these so called ‘professionals’ conducted themselves was shocking. No regard for tiny two years olds around them. I never thought I would be disrespected as a paying customer. Please for your peace and sanity do not step foot in...