The Flame — Restaurant in Sydney

The Flame Restaurant serves modern Australian cuisine inside Canterbury Leagues Club where you can see the club’s frontage view from window walls flooded with natural daylight. 🙂 The restaurant was set with cloth table linens created a simple and elegant dining environment. 🙂

Staff was accommodating and welcoming throughout the whole meal. We ordered Garlic & Herb Pane di Casa for starter, Grilled Pork Cutlet and Tom Yum Prawn Pappardelle for mains. Garlic bread was nothing to rave about, felt like from they got it from the supermarket. 🙄

Tom Yum Prawn Pappardelle was an interesting Thai and Italian fusion dish. There was a hot and sour sensation in the sauce and a dollop of coconut cream on top to add creaminess and balance to the dish. Wish the sauce was richer and got more body to it. 😌

The Grilled Pork Cultet was the best dish from the pack. The thick cut pork chop was moist and tender and full of flavour. The zesty citrus gremolata gave a flavourful boost to the grilled meat. I was also impressed with the...

The restaurant has now been renamed from Flame, to Lavico. While the service is still really good, with friendly and attentive staff, and the atmosphere is much the same as Flame beforehand, the menu has unfortunately gone downhill. I'm not sure if they've just simplified things while the renovations continue to go on, but whereas the old Flame menu used to feature things like a proper seafood platter for two, or fresh oysters as an entree, or a churrasco-style meat skewer; now the mains are all very simple Italian-style meals (e.g. veal melanzane, only 2 steaks to choose from, stuffed chicken breast etc., all with chips and veg.). The meals themselves were decent enough, but the place has changed from being somewhere you'd go for a special occasion / to eat something special that you don't normally get to eat, to just being...

Where do I begin. We went to The Flame for Mother's Day expecting to have a nice, quality meal. I was greatly disappointed. Guests were required to order from the Mother's Day set menu, which was priced at an astronomical $112 per person for subpar meals at best. The portion sizes were miniscule and most of the food was flavourless. I am incredibly disappointed as the food was definitely not worth the extremely high price I had to pay. I will never waste my money at The Flame again. I have eaten at five star restaurants in the city which do not charge as much as this restaurant does. If you want to be ripped off, book a table...