Silk's Brasserie@Leura, NSW

I went to Leura near the Blue Mountains on 14/05/09 and had dinner at Silk's. What a fantastic meal it was. One of the best dining experiences I have had. It ain't Tetsuya's but it's still good. A must go if anyone wants to stay for a night at Leura.


Nice Ambience

To Start

Provençale fish soup + aioli, served with tempura-batter prawns on side $21: Fish stew was delicious. Had tomato purée and cream. Fish was well minced. Flavours would have been enhanced with chives. Tempura was done well with good salted batter. Crisy but batter seemed a little thin layered compared to Japan and peeled easily from prawns.

Main Course

Tenderloin of grain-fed beef on creamy mash with baby English spinach + black olive butter $36: Tenderloin Beef was cooked to perfection. The wine, which was a 2001 Canobolas-Smith Cab Sauv and Cab France blend from Orange, was too high in alch and the tannins needed to be softer to match a beef of this quality. A 13 to 13.5 % wine like a aged Bordeaux would be perfect. The beef had so much juice that I felt it overpowered the taste of my wine.



That's how well my beef was cooked. Medium rare.

Dessert

Warm bitter-sweet chocolate fondant served with chantilly cream + black cherries $15: Fondant was right in texture and taste. Well presented. Not too sugary. Delicious with port. I had a pickwick's NV tawny port with this. Best fondant I ever had in my life.

I paid about a 100 bucks for the meal but it was well worth. Good ambience and I loved the selection of jazz music played. Lighting was good too and the service was fantastic. Every dish was timely served.

Go to their website http://www.silksleura.com/ for more info on what they serve.