[Review 5301] Spoilt for choices @ Arcane

29/05/2016
Arcane
中環安蘭街18號3樓
3/F, 18 On Lan Street, Central
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Spoilt for choices
2016-05-29  1474 瀏覽
Arcane is headed by Australian chef Shane Osborn who used to work at Michelin starred Pied-a-Terre in London attained during his time there.
I love the open kitchen where you could see them do their magic.
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The menu is really good and it is on their website as well so you can see what dishes they serve before you go.
There are quite a few vegetarian choices as well as meat choices which made it hard to decide as I wanted to try almost every dish.

To begin, I was given sourdough with butter which was a great start as it was soft with a lovely crispy edge.
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Started with Japanese fruit tomato with homemade ricotta, pinenuts, rocket and sherry vinegar dressing.
This was simple and delicious because the sauce was sweet and the pinenuts gave it a lovely nutty flavour along the tomato and ricotta.
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Pan fried langoustines, roast broccolini, girolle ragout, crisp garlic:
The langoustines were sweet and springy paired with my favourite roast broccolini which are a hybrid of broccoli and Chinese kale!
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Pan fried veal sweetbread, jerusalem artichokes, crisp new season onion, crushed peas, truffle jus:
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This was a huge piece of sweetbread and this is not often on the menu so I had to try it.
The texture of sweetbread is a bit like liver so it is quite rich but it came with sweet crushed peas and crisp onions which gave it a lovely roast onion flavour.
It would be great if they sliced the sweetbread into two pieces as one big piece makes you feel guilty!
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For dessert I had the Warm chocolate tart with whipped hokkaido cream, macadamia nuts and guinness ice cream.
The icecream was lovely and the chocolate tart was soft and rich.
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The food was paired with 2012 Jean-Philippe Fichet Bourgogne Blanc Vieilles Vignes.
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I really liked the food and plan to come back for the gnocchi, tortellini and other vegetable dishes.