"Clare Condon and her Pacific Cook Islander husband, Kristin Makirere, offer elegant dishes in this gorgeous glass cube secreted away in a little inner-city oasis. Their ethos of sustainability (embracing local, seasonal, organic, and fair-trade foods) is divinely delivered in creative dishes such as hibiscus-poached pear with coconut mascarpone on buttermilk pancakes; or tea-smoked beetroot with sauteed kale, poached eggs, and hazelnut dukkah. Scant seafood elements in a primarily vegetarian/vegan menu — like the Kai Moana fish tacos, battered hake in Irish grown-and-produced corn tortillas — might tempt vegetarians to fall off the wagon. [$]" - Joe McNamee