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2012-07-27
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For more reviews and photos, please see http://thehungrybunnie.blogspot.com/2012/02/barossa-esplanade.htmlWhile I'm not a fan of any place that doesn't have any air-conditioning, Barossa's location at the Esplanade waterfront ensures a steady breeze through the open-air restaurant. The food is distinctively Australian, hearty, rustic, and humongously portioned, but with many misses amongst the somewhat passable dishes. We had:1) Australian Seafood Bouillabaisse ($16), tasted more like lobster bi
While I'm not a fan of any place that doesn't have any air-conditioning, Barossa's location at the Esplanade waterfront ensures a steady breeze through the open-air restaurant. The food is distinctively Australian, hearty, rustic, and humongously portioned, but with many misses amongst the somewhat passable dishes.
We had:
1) Australian Seafood Bouillabaisse ($16), tasted more like lobster bisque than a bouillabaisse, sweet, heady and very very rich. Good thing there was toasted herbed bread to soak up and balance out the sweetness of the soup.
2) Parma Ham Pizza Foccacia ($24) with ricotta and truffle oil, which was more like a flattened and toasted sandwich bread than a pizza. Crispy and flaky, this was light, fragrant and balanced
3) Pan-Roasted "Stockyard" Gold Class Angus Ribeye ($45 for a 250g) was full-bodied and robust, but overdone. The creamed spinach & cheese side was only alright, very creamy and milky, but the potato mash tasted generic and straight out of an instant mix package
4) Sauteed Prawns and Scallops Fettucine ($26) with asparagus was just awful. The sauce was just terrible (methinks they were trying to attempt a tomato-cream sauce but it just fell flat, it was limp and tasteless) and the pasta overcooked.
5) Buffalo Wings ($15), from off the bar bites menu, was possibly the best dish, juicy wings fried to a delectable crisp golden crust were brushed with a piquant spicy sauce for an impactful flavour
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