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User Reviews on Alchemy 731
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Best value degustation in town. Delicate and lively, well balanced and ingenious flavour combinations. Well crafted food matched with a lovely wine list. I am becoming a regular.
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rex fields -
See my reviews 2 , 28 September 2008
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Food 9 |
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A friend of mine recommended Alchemy 731 as she lives locally and has been before. It was my first meal here and we had the 8 dish 'Tasting Menu' including 6 wines @ $150. I was really impressed by the standard of the food as I have had degustations at many high profile Sydney and Melbourne restaurants.
The decor is plain but I go to restaurants for quality cooking and attentive service. It really bugs me that so many people winge about the decor when dining should be less about image and more about eating! I'm pleased to say that I got what I expected here and the 'value for money' is definitely one of the many reasons to visit Alchemy 731.
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plateitup -
See my reviews 1, 17 September 2008
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Food 7 |
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Service 6 |
Value 5 |
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Second visit and left both times feeling underwhelmed. The food 'tries hard' but would be more suited to a fine dining setting. It's very 'complicated' food with lots of ingredients in each dish and fussy presentation. Somehow, it doesn't work that well, some lovely salmon didn't really go with a piece of chicken in the same dish and the idea of serving things in test tubes and beakers is just a bit odd. The dessert serving was tiny and not enough to share.
Vegetables are extra. The value is ok with the Ent Card and on weekdays byo nights but it would be very expensive otherwise for what you get. On the night we went with a very loud group totally dominated the small, rather bland room and it was impossible to enjoy a relaxed meal.
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Steve Winter -
See my reviews 22, 14 September 2008
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Food 4 |
Ambience 3 |
Service 2 |
Value 6 |
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Tempted by restaruant reviews, I tried this restaurant. However, I couldn't wait to complete my meal and get out. It all started with a most pretentious male waiter. The "wizard chef"presented us with testubes and beakers (salad in a beaker??). Tastes were nice; quantities miniscule. Foam everywhere. I would have preferred a steak and chips next door at the Mosman RSL. The wine list was reasonable in style and price. Not one to recommend.
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Noosa -
See my reviews 23, 11 September 2008
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Food 10 |
Ambience 10 |
Service 10 |
Value 9 |
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I am a Mosman local and over the years this has become my wife and my favourite place. The head waiter is polite and very good with the wine list and his explanation of the food on the menu as well as the specials.
We went last night (Aug 28/08) and it was rather busy, but not too loud and there seemed to be many regulars there. I didn't know it was BYO some nights. Worth remembering in the future. The layout is small but not crammed and nice music was filtering the air and each table had candles.
Entree for me was the scallops and my wife had the quail and truffle risotto. She is telling all her friends about it. I loved the scallops. Mains were Wagyu beef for me which was cooked to precision and my wife had the lamb. Both meals as good as you would get anywhere.
The place is small. I have not been upstairs but I am looking forward to summer when the doors are open at the front. The only downside is the single toilet. It is a tad on the higher side of pricing, but I noticed a Friday lunch special that I will try and take a workmate to one day. I think it was $30 for two courses and some wine.
Wine list is great.
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Jimbo78 -
See my reviews 3, 29 August 2008
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Food 6 |
Ambience 6 |
Service 8 |
Value 6 |
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For a 'hatted' restaurant it was just 'OK'. As this was a birthday dinner we opted for the degustation menu with matching wines. For the most part, they wouldn't have been the wines we would have matched with the food but that didn't mean they were awful wines either.
The food was fine - it just wasn't great. The staff were attentive, the kitchen looked clean and tidy (how could one not observe as you stand waiting just off the kitchen to go to the one and only toilet and watch the waiters saunter by with the food).
Sadly, I tend to agree with Stingey (below), the meal was hard to recall a few days later - indicating it wasn't the most memorable food we've eaten in our lives.
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Eatstreet -
See my reviews 23, 15 July 2008
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Food 9 |
Ambience 8 |
Service 9 |
Value 9 |
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Our dining experience at Alchemy was delightfully, memorable and exceedingly good value, characterised by exceptional food and personal yet professional service. The parfait was heavenly. We will be back.
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cloneill -
See my reviews 1, 15 May 2008
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Food 9 |
Ambience 8 |
Service 9 |
Value 9 |
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Dinner at Alchemy recently was delicious, just as I have found it in the past. The food is beautifully presented and thoughtfully put together. An entree of truffle infused brie was delicious while my husband has not stopped raving about the hearty lamb filled cabbage leaves, just the thing for a cold autumn night. Desserts are decadent, as is right, try the white chocolate sorbet if it's on...or anything chocolate. For value for money Alchemy is a gem.
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jpops -
See my reviews 1, 04 May 2008
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Food 5 |
Ambience 5 |
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Value 3 |
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My wife and I decided that as Alchemy 731 seemed to have survived its first few years in operation and gained and retained a Chef's hat, that we would give it a go. For us, it was not the best dining experience but far from the worst. For the price and the Good Food Guide rating however, it just didn't cut it for us.
The waitstaff were distracted and service lacked continuity (the usual nag of water not being brought, the bill taking forever and being asked the same question by different people on a number of occasions)
The food, while technically sound lacked flair. What does that mean? When discussing the meal that we had enjoyed a couple of days later, neither of us could remember what we had eaten and for a restaurant pitched at the level at which it is, we would have expected something more memorable.
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stingey -
See my reviews 9, 09 April 2008
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Food 3 |
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Value 1 |
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Tonight was probably the worst dining experience I have ever had in Sydney and I ask everyone reading this review not to waste a night out on this horrible place.
Comments have been made about an overly pompous maitre d/waiter. He was rude and arrogant. As an example, we ordered wine but he started taking our glasses away. We told him that we had ordered red wine and he replied "that's why I'm taking these and bringing red wine glasses". Only a few minutes later, a waitress replaced every single one of those glasses on our table. He then came back with some long winded story and gave us different red wine glasses...the whole thing just seemed pointless and it just emphasised what a patronizing twit this guy was.
This has also been mentioned in reviews below. The waitress got my mother's order wrong. They were very apologetic (they should stop apologising and just start getting the orders right) and offered to bring my mum the main she did order but it would be another 10 or so minutes. This would mean my mum would essentially eat on her own so she declined. The waiter then said loud and clear "we’re really sorry. That will be complementary". For a (totally undeserving) 1 hat restaurant, that only seems fair. What was ridiculous though was the waiter’s suggestion that on top of eating the”unwanted” meal, he would also bring out the main that my mum did order. Naturally we told him not to worry and he said "It's ok; the chef's already making it. You can do what you like, you can at least try it or just all share it". Again we told him not to worry.
Everything else aside, the meals were so very average. I had the open ravioli with fruits de mer. Everything had that slightly mushy texture (not fresh or overcooked) and all the seafood still had the horrible vein left in. I had a nice little pile at the corner of my plate. Disgusting. Not a single person at our table thoroughly enjoyed their mains. And then, like some bad comedy act, well after we had all finished our mains, the waiter brought out the main that my mum had originally ordered. Such a waste of food. We repeated ourselves AGAIN that we didn't want it – especially as all our mains had been so average, we weren’t overly enthusiastic about trying anything else.
THEN to top it all off, the main that my mum did not order and was supposed to be complementary was on the bill. When we questioned this, the waiter blatantly LIED and said “no, it’s not complementary because you ate it. We offered you the main that you ordered but you didn’t want to wait”. So really, this pompous had given my mum the following options: eat the meal she didn’t order and pay for it OR eat the meal she did order after everyone else has finished and possibly get that on the house. Absolutely disgusting and unacceptable behaviour. It's not about getting a free meal. It's about a very basic level of customer service, which was totally lacking tonight.
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