October - Month of indulgence! Good food everywhere, new menu everywhere, and it made DDT CEO's life both easy and difficult: Easy because there were much to choose from, difficult because there were much to choose from! Having pored through the SugarHit list, we carefully selected 5 out of the possible 20-odd sweet tooth offerings, and duly report to fellow DDDs our critiques: (if it weren't for Glass Brasserie being all booked out, it'd be 6!)
Sir Stamford: Strawberry and cream shortbread sandwich, a layered treat filled with strawberries and cream, with layers of soft ginger shortbread in between, and Browns Brothers dessert wine. It was such a simple yet wonderfully refreshing and delicious dessert, not trying too hard to be sophisticated but achieving a lovely end result. But of course I may be biased - Love strawberries!!
Sean's Kitchen at the Star City Casino: Chocolate and five-spice tart with Isigny creme fraiche served with Hennessey XO. We asked if we had the option of sweet dessert wine, but our lovely waitress said their dessert chef believed the cognac matched better with the chocolate tart, so we accepted the non-option. Strangely they offered cognac with ice - I'm no connoisseur but isn't brandy/cognac preferably consumed neat? Anyway, it did taste better without ice. As with the chocolate tart - it was nice, but we didn't feel it was outstanding. It was deliciously smooth, but we were underwhelmed by the spice (or somewhat disappointed with the lack thereof). In fact I was told that my chilli chocolate creme brulee was better (I'm extremely proud though abashed). Beautiful interior and funky couches though.
Welcome Rosanna and Vicky!
Radisson Hotel (Liverpool St): Mango bread and butter pudding, coconut creme brulee with coconut brittle, sparkling muscato rosa. Sounded promising but disappointed - must have a token creme brulee for the DDT, but it had the texture of flan (or Spanish version of creme caramel) instead, and didn't have brulee on top but just a bit of caramel colouring... very disappointing. Mango bread and butter pudding was like bread soaked in some mango smoothie made with frozen mango - it was bulky, didn't have a good mango flavour or aroma. Sparkling pink muscato - very refreshing, but if it wasn't consumed soon enough, it started to taste like stale Chardonnay ... so drink up!! WELCOME Markus to your first DDT!!
And looking over our shoulders we saw someone leave left over desserts on their table - not even half consumed!! Says a lot about how much they enjoyed it.
Perama at Petersham - glykomezedekia - tasting plate which changes week by week. We missed out on the baklava ice cream which is a shame, but the rest was simply amazing! Rice pudding with apple and rhubarb, tangy; Nut kataifi slice: nutty and sticky, some didn't like it, I thought it was great; Thiples stack - honey pastry with yogurt and fruit sandwich, probably the more 'average' out of the desserts; chocolate biscuit halva and sour cherry sandwich: like a chocolate biscuit with peanut butter sorbet sandwich - absolutely match made in heaven! We also got a choice of muscat dessert wine or a brandy, plus tea/coffee/hot chocolate. Certainly the most generous we've seen of SugarHit offers (ever) and wonderfully delicate and unique flavours.
WELCOME Suat and your two friends to your first DDT!!!
