SIFF Sugar Hit 2010: Shangri-La Hotel, Sydney
On a bummy Friday evening, F suddenly raised the question, “Are we going to SIFF this year?”
“You know I can’t do the ‘Let’s Do Lunches’ because of where I work,” I replied with a sad panda face. And somehow that led to us locking in two Sugar Hits to visit the following night (weird I know).
Our first stop saw us at Shangri-La Hotel. Forgetting what was on the menu for the evening, we were promptly seated and served the matching wine for the evening.
F was surprised to see the colour red in his glass this year, as throughout the previous year, every establishment we had visited served the same white dessert wine. The dark plum-coloured liquid turned out to be Cienna from Brown Brothers.
Black Forest Cocktail - Vanilla Panacotta, Cherries in Kirsch, Chocolate Bonbon, Cocoa Sponge and Chocolate Cream
At first glance we oooh’d and aaah’d at the presentation of this dish (minus the gold-silver umbrella, which F thought was a bit over the top). We spied a vanilla bean panna cotta, chocolate cake, cherries, chocolate mousse and an abundance of tempered chocolate; ingredients one would come to expect from a Black Forest cake (minus the panna cotta I suppose hehe).
Unfortunately, the dessert was a bit difficult to eat. The chocolate nest and especially the round layer of tempered chocolate underneath proved tough to break through and made getting that perfect spoonful of every component quite challenging. Each forceful break created an explosion of the bottom layers as they were all squished together and up the side of the glass.
In any case, I thought the chocolate mousse was okay and the cherries had a nice sweet-sour flavour. Although the chocolate sponge was on the verge of being dry, it seemed as if it may have also been soaked in a little alcohol (which I nor F could name). I also tasted quite a strong alcoholic flavour in the panna cotta, which F quickly noticed as well.
Overall, the dish was alright and we were kind of left wishing that it tasted as good as it looked.
Shangri-La Hotel
176 Cumberland Street
Sydney, NSW, 2000
Ph: (02) 9250 6123
Web: http://www.shangri-la.com/en/property/sydney/shangrila/dining/restaurant/lobbylounge
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This article was written on 10 Oct 2010, and is filed under SIFF, Sugar Hit, Sydney, CBD.
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I need to go to these for the wines
Fiona´s last [type] ..The end of the world will only happen once This is not such an occaision
That’s a pity that the sponge layer was not soaked well, it was delicious when I went there, different night, different batch ? ^_^
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Yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised =T Been hearing a lot of mixed reviews, pity about the consistency! I thought it would have been fabulous.
Wow it certainly looks imrpessive, but shame it didn’t taste as good… I really want to go for one of these Sugar Hits!!!
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*sighs* The Sugar Hits aren’t what they used to be.
I’m noticing that I’ve been going to less and less each year. Hopefully next year will buck the downward trend.
I’m trying this out coming Friday! Hope I’m not disappointed =(
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hi there, hope you don’t mind that i included your post in the crave sydney food festival week one round-up of food blogging activities http://tiny.cc/siff-wk1
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Not at all! =)
That’s such a shame, because it looks amazing. It seems worth getting just to look at.
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I love chocolate. It looks so yummy though. Was such a pity that it was not as yum as it looks really pretty n tempting… keep up your pictures, very well taken
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