No Fair share

Ok so here’s the scenario. We go out for a lovely romantic dinner. The setting is perfect, a trendy bistro in the lively Darlinghurst area. The mood is wonderful. We’ve bagged ourselves an outdoors table and we’re sipping on a fruity little Verdello watching the weird and wonderful word of Darlinghurst go by. There are jokes and jests flying. Everything is perfect. We discuss what we will order, making sure we don’t double up so we get to taste as many variations as possible. When the entrées arrive mine is the most succulent Kingfish Carpaccio I have ever tasted. The fish is delicately flavoured and so perfect that I insist on J having half so we both get to enjoy this wonderful dish. We ohhhhhhhhh. We ahhhhhhhhhhh. We laugh and joke some more and the wine is flowing.

Then the main course arrives and the ohhhs and ahhhs are only coming from the other side of the table. When I suggest we share like we did with the entrées I get a ‘There’s no way I’m giving away half of this’. How did that happen? I do get to have a taste but for the rest of the main course I have to look on lovingly as the plate is wiped clean. I couldn’t even tell you what I had because I was so focused on the meal I was missing out on.

This is one of the best fish dishes I have ever tasted (and taste was all I actually did). It is Ocean Trout very lightly cooked and then wrapped in an intense mushroom sauce and a feather light layer of filo pastry. The sauce is creamy and light but I wasn’t allowed to taste enough to hazard a guess as to what the main ingredients were.

I have to go back to this restaurant as soon as possible so I can order the Kingfish Carpaccio and the Ocean Trout. The best bit is there will be absolutely no sharing. Oh well, maybe just the wine and the dessert then.

And this restaurant is Fishface, 132 Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst.