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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Le Bernardin

Le Bernardin, Eric Ripert's award winning seafood restaurant was one of the foodie destinations I was most looking forward to visiting while in NYC.
We had an amazing lunch, the food is truly art on a plate.


The above entree was the most delicious sauteed calamari filled with prawns and shiitake mushrooms with mushroom froth.


The second entree was the charred octopus with black beans, pear sauce, ink-miso vinaigrette and purple basil. The octopus was so tender and light, all of the components of the dish worked beautifully together.



The main of lobster with wilted greens was delicious and showcased the lobster to perfection.


For the other main we selected the seared rare king fish with creamy morels sweet pea and wasabi sauce. The king fish and the wasabi based sauce were a truly magic flavour combination.


The dessert menu was almost impossible to choose from as all of them sounded so tempting.
The above was the chocolate-coconut combination consisting of dark chocolate cremeux, cocoa sablee, mango, cashews with a coconut sorbet. The dark chocolate and coconut were a match made in heaven.


The second dessert we decided on was the hazelnut based dessert of gianduja cream, hazelnuts, honey, banana and brown butter icecream. This dessert also highlighted the incredible flavour combinations that worked so well together.

No wonder Le Bernardin is considered one of NYC's best restaurants, the food, service and ambience are top notch. It certainly is a very special restaurant.

http://www.le-bernardin.com/