Best Sydney Restaurants - Tetsuya Japanese Restaurant

Tetsuya's Restaurant

529 Kent Street,
Sydney NSW 2000
Lunch: Saturday from 12noon
Dinner: Tuesday to Saturday from 6.00pm
Telephone: +612 9267 2900

This restaurant owner chef Tetsuya Wakuda is the fifth most highly acclaimed chef in the world. The 2006 SMH Good Food Guide deems dining at the restaurant an experience so superlative that it urges readers to make sure they dine there at least once in their lives. Tetsuya's cuisine is unique, based on the Japanese philosophy of natural seasonal flavours, enhanced by classic French technique and the freshest possible ingredients.

Tetsuya’s ten-course degustation menu changes frequently. But Tetsuya’s signature dish follows, confit of ocean trout served with unpasteurised ocean trout roe, followed by double cooked de-boned spatchcock with braised daikon and bread sauce, followed by a grilled fillet of grain fed beef with sansho & shiitake mushrooms.

Desserts include an orange, honey and black pepper sorbet served prior to a blue cheese bavarois. Finally, early season berries with orange and Grand Marnier jelly and champagne ice cream, a floating island with vanilla and praline anglaise, and a flourless chocolate cake with a bitter chocolate sorbet and orange ice cream.

However, I must warn you, this fabulous ten-course degustation will cost you $180 per person. But what the heck, because its worth it, even at least once. So take your girl there this Christmas 2006.