A modern restaurant in a beautiful setting. We had a lovely lunch here but it did fall short of being a perfect experience.

The food was delicious, we particularly loved the side dish of the brussel sprouts. So much thought and effort went into this dish and it really showed! Loved the beautiful cripsy bits and the sweet pop from the pomegranate combined with the feta. The fried chicken and triple cooked potatoes were also highlights.

One note regarding the beef dish, I definitely would have preferred less and smaller pieces of apricot in the couscous. But that could just be personal taste and the rest of the dish was delicious.

The one real let down with the food was the scallop starter. Three of our group ordered one and they all found them to be flavourless, overcooked and chewy. There were two tiny Tassy scallops per serve that were completely drowned in butter and at least one of them still had the poo tract left on (picture attached shows the pool of butter and poo tract after my father ate his scallop). Disappointing in size and especially in quality considering they cost $9 each.

Now to the drinks. We ordered a bottle of wine to have with our main meals. 7 of us at the table, 5 aged 60+ but when we asked if they could leave the bottle of wine on the table so that we could pour it ourselves we were informed that this was not possible as it goes against their RSA training. We have never come across any restaurant with this policy before, it was the most baffling part of today's service and I would highly recommend that you rethink this for your future diners. It really tainted the experience for us and made us feel as though we were naughty children that can't be trusted. Bizarre in a posh restaurant.

Attached is the photograph of our bottle of wine, carefully out of reach so we can't enjoy reading the label on the bottle we purchased.

Overall we had a very good experience and the food was wonderful, but we did feel that there is room for improvement.