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Reviews

Restaurants, Modern Australian, Licensed, Serves Dinner, Serves Late Dining

Overall 8.2 2

7.8 Recommended

Food 8 Ambience 7 Service 9 Value 7

Q'Essence was a very pleasurable dining experience and Wilston is lucky to have this restaurant added to the scene.

The two brightly lit cherry blossom trees add ambience as you enter the restaurant but the inside is a little too sterile with its silver painted walls.

The popcorn chicken was a delicious and whimsical starter with small pieces of chicken covered in popcorn dust and placed beside a butter sauce. There were three perfectly cooked scallops with the meal and I would happily eat it all again.

The salt cured king salmon was also very good and a delicate balance of flavours. The pork belly was delicious although the crackling was a bit chewy instead of crackly.

The duck breast was slightly overlooked as it was more grey than pink inside but the flavour was absolutely fantastic. A little more sauce would have been nice. The mains are not large and adding a side would not go astray. That said, we had 3 courses and we full at the end.

The rice pudding for dessert was more like a breakfast meal than a sweet dessert. The chocolate plate was substantial and included caramel fudge, ganache and a small pudding, all of which were delicious.

The highlight was Andrew, the sommelier. We had already ordered drinks to go with the starters before he got to speak to us about our drink selection. He spent plenty of time with us and explained what he thought would suit our mains. He then brought several options to try to determine what you would like to order. The wine list is quite extensive, although only a small portion is available by the glass as you would expect.

The wines included wines from Germany, Chile and Italy.

Overall, it was a very good experience although the mains needed a little extra care to make the meals all they could be.

Mar 24, 2012

Crosstown Eating House, The, Woolloongabba

Restaurants, Modern Australian, Hip and Trendy, Has Bar, Licensed

Overall 6.9 9

7.8 Recommended

Food 8 Ambience 7 Service 8 Value 8

Crosstown is a fun place to eat. The menu is a sharing style of eating and we had shoulder lamb with pasta, mushrooms on toast and meatballs. The meatballs ($16) were fantastic and served in a smokey tomato sauce, the mushrooms on toast ($14?) were tasty but nothing special and the lamb shoulder on pasta ($26) was wide ribbons of pasta with melt in your mouth shredded lamb shoulder.

All the food was good value and very tasty. The menu has very little description and the meatballs and sauce is described just like that. Crosstown doesn't take bookings so if it becomes as popular as it derserves on a Friday or saturday night, then it may be hard to get in. Service was friendly and fast although we were given no serving utensils to serve out our 3 dishes that we shared. Luckily we know each other but it wasn't ideal.

May 14, 2009

Wasabi, Noosa Heads

Restaurants, Japanese, Vegetarian, Degustation Menu, Has Bar

Overall 8.2 18

8.8 Highly Recommended

Food 10 Ambience 8 Service 9 Value 8

The food was fresh and amazing. One of the best dining experiences I have ever had and I eat out a lot. Ask to sit in the tatami room for better ambience. We ate the tasting plate which cost $102pp with the wagyu beef option and I was pretty full by the 5th of the 7 courses. Great service.

Sep 19, 2008