Koi
Image: Where’s Woolwich? Luckily these days, all it takes is an iPhone and shazam you’re on a wonderfully green peninsula looking at twinkling city lights.
Where’s Woolwich? Luckily these days, all it takes is an iPhone and shazam you’re on a wonderfully green peninsula looking at twinkling city lights. Two more minutes, and you’re ensconced in a dining room so beautifully decorated you’ll think you’ve miscalculated and ended up in Japan. The soulful notes of the shakuhachi intertwine with trickling water from an internal water feature. On the artisan plates you can expect an equally good selection of traditional and modern dishes. The Mixed Sashimi Chef’s Selection ($39/15 pieces) of generous chunks of fish includes less common delights like Bonito. The expertly seared Kingfish Carpaccio ($20) dazzles with garlic red miso; but true harmony is reached by popping perfect squares of Bangalow Pork Belly ($20) into your mouth against a glass of the 2009 Klur Katz Pinot Gris ($13). With stellar wines and sakes, you might need a bowl of above-par Edamame ($8) whilst you ponder. Make sure it matches spatchcock though, because the Hinadori ($40) with black truffle emulsion and white truffle dust is my dish of the night. Hearing the bonzer foliage accompanying the Baked Eggplant ($18) gets hand-foraged by the chef daily is also endearing. I reckon you’ll love it, all the way to the complimentary gold-dusted chocolate koi.
Koi
102 Woolwich Road, Woolwich
Ph: (02) 9817 6030 www.koi-dining.com.au
Japanese $$$$
