Guess where I am today? Yes, that's right WAQU!
WAQU located in the heart of Crows Nest and offers a fine dinning experience.
Currently they offer Early bird special for January 2012
| Don't forget to book before your visit, they're very busy at moment. This is a great place to have your anniversary dinner or take you girlfriend out for a nice dinning. Good valentines day choices!  | |||
Come to WAQU and order before 6.30pm and receive one complimentary entree course. (Booking Essential) You can enjoy 6 course menu for $60pp (normally $75pp) with 6 course matching wine for $100pp (normally $123pp more info on: http://www.waqu.com.au They dinning experience was rather hilarious to us. I didn't mean to be negative here. We couldn't understand their waiter's explanation when the food was served, even thought they all dressed and sound professional :P. In fact, we were so confused which dish we were having and constantly checking our menu to confirm. Part of the fun I guess.... |
Complimentary for the night
White wine daikon sauce with diced cabbage on prosciutto
They offer nice selection of beer too
Sake Mojito - Yummo!
First Entree
Three layered chicken and vegetable terrine, served with roll cake
This terrine is very well thought through. We enjoyed each layer of it!
Second Entree
Scallop Tartare Creme Vichyssoise
We love the tomato water jelly with diced fresh scallop served with creme soup mixed with touch of wasabi and red capsicum mousse on the side.
This dish is one of the highlight of the night!
Third Entree
Ocean Trout Three way
Slow cooked, cured and brandade ocean trout, smoked egg yolk flake
Do not miss the slow cooked trout, simply superb!
You can make your selection of 2nd entree (actually 4th entree) and main.
Pork Belly (choice one)
This dish show case the two different way of cooking pork belly by Japanese - modern kitchen crispy skin pork belly and melt in your mouth kakuni style (Japanese braised pork)
Garnishing with asa-zuke salad and hollandaise sauce
Grilled scampi, cauliflower flan served with prawn ricotta ravioli (choice two)
If you love cauliflower, you will solely enjoy their cauliflower mouse.
Main
Roasted Veal Loin
Pan Fried Barramundi
Orange Cheesecake Souffle
I must admit I love their blood orange sorbet, very refreshing after such a big meal.
Here is the detail set menu
Where is it?
WAQU
Address: 308 Pacific Highway, Crows Nest NSW 2065
Tel:
Website: http://www.waqu.com.au/
2 comments:
We thought trying something new however was not impressed with their customer service overall....a dozen of us went to Waqu on a friday evening for dinner. We arrived there a little early and waited until their opening time but their big restaurant door was still locked. We waited for another 5 minutes and had to ring the restaurant to remind them to open for business for the night. Anyway We booked their private room with 6 course autumn menu and some of us also had the matching wines option.
Staff there generally did not seem having a good mood as the ones in other Japanese 'fine dinning' restaurants who always offer services with friendly and helpful attitude with a SMILE all the time. Instead they looked a bit stressed.
Degustation plates and matching wine was creative and pretty but cant really tell if it is really fused with Japanese essence. Most dishes does not have Japanese fusions to me. They tasted just all right. Not particularly memorable, just eatable.
We ended up going to another crows nest restaurant after this due to the relative compacted version of their 'fine' dishes. By the way since most of our group ordered same course dish most of the times and we realised the food portion for each plate were always uneven so does the quality of the dishes themselves. The orders were also mixed up a couple of times.
As we only had our meal in the private room, we had to judge the ambience on its private room only. Actually it is more like a section of the restaurant with gyprocks separating the dinning area into two. The private room was also next to the kitchen and bathrooms, one of the walls in between of the public and private dinning area did not have the top part enclosed! so no acoustics. It is half open, no door for the room which was disappointing. I personally think it is a mismatch with their 'fine dinning' concept as normally most high end Japanese restaurant would at least have a door.
The menu was too inflexible as its set menu and does not have a la carte options at all. Cocktail and dessert list had too few kinds to offer.
Lastly but not the least, the manager was also rather rude to us and told us off after we had a few drinks and started talking with each other with a bit raised voice and had a couple of laughs. We have a very big group and this situation was unfortunately unavoidable. In reality, Who would just eat their food and without having a few cracked jokes at the table? especially after the alcohol? The public dinning section was even noisier and we could literally hear anything out there including the noise from the kitchen. The manager kept on saying they are a 'fine dinning restaurant' not a public pub while we could not even complain how noisy their public section was!
I understand that they might be proud/snobby of their restaurant but humiliating their customers? Is this how a manager if a 'fine dinning' restaurant treat his customers?? I also saw a online review saying Waqu restaurant manager taught the good-mannered customers a lesson how to discipline their young kids and did not want them being in the restaurant. That was actually pathetic.
Just sharing our bad experience to everyone for your information. I would say this had been the weirdest restaurant we have ever been. We were all very disappointed with this restaurant and will NEVER go back again.
I am sorry to hear your experience. Waqu does have an intimate atmostphere. As we were there for a Valentine's day dinner, less service was preferred. I would definitely not suggesting it's to be a friends gathering, esp. A loud group.
Again, sorry for your experience. maybe give next door Ju-Rin a try, you can book at the sushi bar and order some nice Sake with friends.
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