Bécasse
Becassé is one of my favourite restaurants of all time. Its a fairly quiet restaurant where you would mainly go here for a special occasion. We didn’t get the degustation instead we got the A La Carte. Its fairly upper-class so remember your manners and take into consideration of the time as this isn’t a restaurant where you eat and leave. Meals take time to prepare hence the standard of this restaurant so patience is a must.
Meals are fairly expensive and you pay for what you get (Mains range from $42-$52). You may think the meals are very small but the flavours are absolutely fantastic! and worth it! Can’t remember the exact bill for 2 ppl. All up it cost us about $250-$300.
AMBIANCE
It’s a small welcoming restaurant which has a simplistic elegant mood. If going to impress a client, surprise a very special someone then this place could do the trick. Lights are dimmed for the intimacy feel and atmosphere can be quiet (i assume depending on particular time / day).
SERVICE
As soon as entering the restaurant the door is opened and you are directly escorted to your table. Waitresses / Waiters are speak in food language so it may be hard to understand if you don’t know a thing or two. Fantastic service overall.
FOOD
Complementary Puff pastry tart with tapenade, marinated tomato and biodynamic Kervella goats’cheese.
Absolutely delicious.. like fireworks exploding in your mouth
An assortment of breads – dark sourdough, rosemary, herb & garlic with dutch butter and black sea salt
Breads are served hot (Straight out of the oven) Butter was soooooo delicious I didn’t feel guilty about smearing it on my bread.
Entreés
Crispy pork belly, grilled scampi and crispy bacon jus
Personally I struggle to eat the pork belly as I thought the belly would be crispy part. Overall very interesting flavours.
Confit yellow fin tuna and king prawn with green apple and lemongrass sorbet, soy and sesame
If you enjoy sashimi then you will enjoy this dish. The flavours that combine the green apple and lemongrass sorbet and the fresh fin tuna and prawn is a beautiful combination which leaves a refreshing feel.
Complementary Sauteé Carrot
It’s a shame that I focused this photo incorrectly. I’ve never had carrot made into the consistency of pumpkin soup. It was SOOOOOOO GOOOOOOODDDD!
Main’s
Crab tortellini, prawn, king scallop, and asparagas
I absolutely enjoyed my main! It presented in a big bowl and the meal was microscopically tiny Considering this cost approx $48 it was soooooo worth it! I’ll forever remember the taste of this dish.
Milk fed veal baked in coffee and clay with cepe potato puree and caramelised endive
It thought this was the most bizarre dish! The veal is present in block of clay. (The waiter / waitress cuts this open for you). Once cut open, a coffee colored cloth is reveled which serves the purpose of absorbing the flavour into the veal. It’s the most expensive main on the menu which is highly recommended!
Complementary – vanilla bean pancotta with honey dew, cantaloupe, pomegranate and passion fruit
What’s not to love? anything with visible vanilla-bean is the bomb!
Desert
Banana crème brulée with salted peanut brittle and milk coffee sorbet|
The most unusual crème bruleé I have ever seen! Presentation was intelligent and the flavour of the banana is prominent. Peanut Brittle caramel is insanely unique!
Valrhona chocolate and caramel ‘cadeau’ with milk sorbet
Speechless! Best of both worlds – hazelnut, mousse, caramel what could go wrong?
Complementary – (not sure of the name so correct me if i am wrong) Berry Friand, chocolate Macaroons and Pear Delight
Bécasse
204 Clarence Street,
Sydney 2000
Tel: (02) 9283 3440
What a luxurious meal at a classy establishment! Seems like one of those meals where you can’t help but smile the whole way through.
With an establishment such as this, did anyone give you a look while you were taking photos?
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March 9th, 2009, 1:24 pm
definitely smiling the whole way through. I couldnt believe the flavours! I’m a sucker for french food! it has to be my favourite cuisine of all time mainly because the flavours are sooo out of this world. ^_^
LOL great question.. I was embarrassed at first.. but then I thought.. “what the heck… i’m paying for this meal.. and who knows when i’ll be back?”…
I started the trend with snapping like a tourist.. and then luckily there was another asian table diagonal from us and they followed and started snapping the food too ^_^
Do you ever get shy when taking photos?
I do…
Depends who i’m dining with as well.. some friends want to eat and i feel bad if I say “can i take a foto of the food” hehe..
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March 9th, 2009, 8:44 pm
Shy? What are you talking about. I’m a man and men don’t get shy!
Ok, maybe a little
It more has to do with the circumstance more than anything else. People seem ok when you’re taking pictures of food while you’re sitting down at an establishment, whether that be most restaurants or a food court. You may get the occasional look but it’s not that often and I’m pretty fine with it.
However, I always get an unnerving feeling and more looks when I do it in a food store. It’s like the mealies i.e. meal foodies (for lack of a better word) are socially tolerated while the shoppies (likewise) have yet to reach that level of tolerance from the general public. I bet even the mealies pick on the shoppies
If meal foodies start a fight by throwing food at shopping foodies, would that be considered mealie combat?
With regards to friends, I usually ask up front before we start so there’s no confusion. Unless it’s a once-in-a-lifetime sort of thing, I’m fine with not taking photos. Afterall I’m there for them more than I am the meal.
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March 11th, 2009, 11:37 pm
LOL!
I thought men would get shy too.. haha maybe i’m thinking of men that are soo shy they cant even look a female in the eye.. (e.g like that tv reality show called “beauty and the geek”)
Dontcha just hate that…(when ppl give u weird looks cos ur taking fotos of food court food etc). I do get embarrassed when i want to take photos of food. Especially when i have to pull out my slr LOL sometimes i use my digital camera cos the attention is less obvious =\ and I guess it does play a big role if its an expensive restaurant…
I have to remind myself, i’m paying for the meals and the chances of them seeing me again any time soon will be a while or never again.
In a way i think its nice we take fotos of food because I / we see food as a form of art. I beautiful art that feels good in our belly’s ^_^
I havent gone that far and been a mealie girl. LOL I dont think i could pull it off.. Sometimes I think ppl will look upon me suspicious.. like i’m some sort of store competitor or a terrorist or something (not that i look like one but you know.. these days ppl can never b to sure) LOL..
With the friends comment i totally agree with you. I never tend to take photos if im catching up with my friends as I see it as i am there for them and not purely the food.. only if circumstances were that we are on a holiday or something.. then it would be different.
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March 12th, 2009, 8:00 am
I’m going to let you in on a little secret, seeing that you seem like such a nice person and all. That whole can’t look in the eye shyness thing, it’s a misinterpretation. The eyes are just focused elsewhere…
The looks can be somewhat deserved, especially when you’re taking a photo of a half-eaten burrito purchased in a shopping centre food court. Not that I would *cough* know of such things. It may just have to do with the vibe and appropriateness. If you’ve setup the SRL on a tripod with reflectors to take a picture of a McChicken nugget, you deserve more than just strange looks.
I wonder how far foodies have gone to get that perfect shot.
Yeah, I hear you about the terrorist thing. Though imagine what the poor nuclear reactor bloggers must go though for their passion, especially “gentlemen of middle eastern appearance” that like to wear long beards. I think we have it easy by comparison
Maybe it’s just a matter of time before this sort of thing is accepted widely, in the same way that a man acting in a ultra-feminine manner is, for the most part, socially accepted nowadays. Perhaps not. Maybe we’ll always be a fringe group. I doubt that foodies will band together for a pride march to make their passion more widely accepted.
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March 13th, 2009, 10:18 pm
LOL @ eyes focused elsewhere ROLFMAO! LOL you may not be shy but you surely are brave for not getting caught for wondering eyes LOLLLLL
I admit if i saw someone taking a photo of half eaten food i’d prob give them a filthy.. then again i can’t exactly talk… I think i’ve taken a photos of maccas burgers under the influence of having a bit too much to drink and craving the fatness of a cheese burger and fries LOLLLL
There is probably heaps of foodies out there who are super brave and produce awesome photos because they’re not afraid to go for it. The brave ones are the ones that capture the best shots while the shy ones like me tend to miss-out LOLL =| It says a lot considering i cant even walk on the street without looking daggy with unwashed hair LOL.
The terrorist thing is freaky haha i remember for my project 365 blog i would be afraid to take a photo at the train station whilst waiting for a train that was over-due 98340945 minutes LOL. I ended up taking the shot secretly hiding my digital camera looking super suspicious LMAO (thats how i feel about food sometimes LOl i’m always worried about what others think =\ and me spoiling their experience by flashing everywhere LOL
I think we’ll always be a fringe group. HAhah it would be a extraordinary for foodies to march together waving pots and pans in the air.. dressed in crockery costumes and floats made out of metal, paper towels, baking paper and sprinkles LOL
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oh WOOOWW so very very jealous hahah must must gooo XD all of the dishes look and sound gooodd and that veal sure is interesting!
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March 9th, 2009, 1:26 pm
Yup I’m a big fan of Justin North.
This month i’m going to try his new Restaurant called Etch ^_^
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woah NICE photos! the desserts look so freaking awesome especially that caramel disc atop the glass!
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March 9th, 2009, 1:28 pm
Its sooo goooddddddddd First time ive ever had banana cream brulee presented like that. It was sweet though but sooo WORTH IT. ^_^
I cant wait to try his new restaurant – Etch ^_^
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I adore Becasse also. Your yummy photos make me wish I had a special occasion/reason to visit again.
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March 11th, 2009, 11:38 pm
Thanks belle ^_^ what else have you tried from becasse? i’d love to go there but we’ll have to see in another 398u493489 years later. If onyl food as good as that was cheapp =(
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How come there are Complementary even for A La Carte. did u ask for it ?
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May 28th, 2010, 9:51 am
nope we didn’t ask for it, you get amouse bouche to begin with and in between each meals they give you these complementary dishes because if they didn’t, you’d be waiting a while till the next meal came out.
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