Restaurants near National Library of Australia

Sophisticated food, lovely ambience and wonderful service.

The dishes we had were some of the tastiest, best balanced, well thought-out plates of food we've had in a very long time. That also includes the way textures were balanced and considered. Two examples of this were the Taro fritters, which was balanced with crisp pickled chilli, glutinous flaxseed chutney and a creamy yoghurt sauce; and the Mountain Cake filled with a white choc cream that was not too sweet, shatp apples in miso caramel atop a butterscotch sauce that was so good it should be bottled. While they were both delicious the absolute stand out dishes for us were the radish cakes and the duck. The duck was the best we've had in years and the radish cakes were the best we've ever had (this coming from someone with a slight radish cake addiction). If they'd been open on Sunday we would have returned for lunch the very next day. Sidenote - the accommodation of food allergies was superb. I'm allergic to crustaceans but can still tolerate some cross contamination. The wait staff and the chef all checked and double-checked on this for each dish. When eating out comes with some nervousness about reacting to food this consideration meant I could enjoy my evening without monitoring for symptoms.

We return again and again. So wonderful !! Love the relaxing vibe and delicious food.

Oysters, prawns, asparagus, whiting, rhubarb desert, all excellent. Service too. Thank you for a truly lovely dining experience

On a very busy day staff were efficient and polite. they are to be congratulated. The food was great too :)