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The Age Good Food Guide 2008 - Two Chef's Hat |
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The Age Good Food Guide 2007 - One Chef's Hat |
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User Reviews on Attica
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Displaying 1 - 9 of 9 comments
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Fabulous restaurant. Recommend having the taster menu. Yum.
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dimioxford -
See my reviews 1 , 26 October 2008
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Would like to see more top end chardonnays.
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davehargreaves1 -
See my reviews 13, 14 October 2008
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What a sensory experience Attica is! We had the tasting menu and found it absolutely surprising and delicious. My favourites were the trout with smoke - for pure theatre and for the attention to detail. I loved the mushrooms, Jerusalem artichoke & casa madaio canestrato - the foam was divine and far beyond expectations. The terroir is simply extraordinary and utterly memorable.
The service was outstanding, attentive but not overwhelming and the ambience was delightful. So many restaurants are loud which has an impact on my enjoyment of the food but Attica is subdued and quiet. The food is superb and I can't wait to return. I can't believe so much taste and innovation comes out of that tiny kitchen!
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kbel -
See my reviews 11, 23 September 2008
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Hand picked crab with verjus and horseradish was light and flavorsome, smoked trout broth with crackling, basil seeds and fresh smoke deserves its reputation, mushrooms, chestnut and casa madaio canestrato cheese was rich, john dory cooked on the bone and flavored with the sea was my dish of the night, the wagyu beef rolled in ash, with abalone, tamarind and egg yolk, and the slow cooked free range pork with confit turnips, housemade black pudding and apple batons were superb.
But how does he construct the sauternes custard with apple bits and pieces, as there is a fired toffee layer encasing an apple foam? Attentive service and excellent wines complement an extraordinary dining experience. Bravo.
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merlot -
See my reviews 88, 03 September 2008
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Very impressed with this restaurant. Being a harsh critic with expectations in food especially when relative to the price, I would say Attica truly surprised me with its creative and well executed dishes. Attica to me is definitely better purely from food tasting point of view. It's more innovative here, but not trying overly so but shows a good knowledge of produce and the potential to create sparks.
Unfortunately, Melbourne is not Sydney. Sydney has plenty of better restaurants and dare I say, even better ingredients/produce up there. Attica is one of those that is 'relatively' great in Melbourne. However lets not kid ourselves, this is still not as great as a great Sydney restaurant or a great international one either, but it's not too far off from there.
There are two things I have to comment about Ben's cooking. He uses the most ordinary ingredients but creates masterpieces out of them, so it shows off his culinary skills. And the price tag stays more sane and affordable. On the other hand, I believe he has the potential to introduce some slightly more exotic ingredients on certain dishes because he has way better understanding of flavours and cooking than a lot of other chefs.
At the current moment, in a 7-8 course degustation, all the ingredients are very ordinary and like I said it is good and bad in a way. However it doesn't hurt if he has at least 2 dishes with a little bit more 'character', I certainly wouldn't mind paying for it. I trust his cooking way.
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Iruka -
See my reviews 86, 04 August 2008
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Food 9 |
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Extraordinary dining experience; food was unique, challenging and superb. I am from Sydney and this type of food was reminiscent of one of my absolute favorite restaurants. Attica was maybe that touch more classier.
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matster -
See my reviews 28, 06 May 2008
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What has happened here? I went when it had no hats, then one hat and it was awesome! The 2 hats has definitely gone to its head, the food is still awesome, hats off to Ben, but the service? Remember guys you are in Melbourne not Sydney, I liked you more when you were that friendly local restaurant serving divine food.
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Monkey38 -
See my reviews 6, 22 February 2008
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Food 10 |
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Food was fabulous, presentation great. Service fantastic.
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Booka -
See my reviews 1, 22 January 2007
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Food 10 |
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Great Food. So many interesting ingredients. Food seems too cheap for its complexity.
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dhoad6 -
See my reviews 1, 26 February 2006
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