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Flying Fish Restaurant & Bar

Seafood with an Asian/contemporary bent... Flying Fish Restaurant & Bar.
Seafood with an Asian/contemporary bent... Flying Fish Restaurant & Bar.Supplied

Good Food hat15/20

Seafood$$$

A restaurant with a view this spectacular doesn’t have to shout about it. Yes, the outlook’s a killer, with a wide vista to the Harbour Bridge through enormous glass windows, but the glowing, heavy wood-beam interior, anchored by a chandelier of hanging amber globes, is worthy of its own share of attention. The seafood-centred menu has an Asian/contemporary bent: sweet Western Australia marron, burnished in brown butter and tamarind, arrives on a bed of charred lettuce in balsamic, while duck rillettes and a pink slice of foie gras are paired with compote-filled cherries, crunchy, sour pickled vegetables and buttery brioche. Native produce is put to work beautifully - as in crisp-skinned barramundi fillet with lemon aspen butter sauce, Coorong spinach and samphire; then in a restrained coconut sorbet and mousse dessert with tart sheep’s yoghurt, dark eucalyptus caramel and finger lime. Service is polished and discreet.

And ... No time to dine? The bar shares the view.

THE LOW-DOWN
Vibe
Show-off Sydney, with seafood.
Best bit Starting with oysters and sashimi in the Little Fish bar.
Worst bit Finding a park or taxi.

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