James W.
Yelp
The food rocked! The playlist of ambient music, that rocked too. They played without realising it some of my favourite hip hop. Mos Def, Pete Rock.... It was like they were channeling my musical tastes. So that was massive positive to start.
Right well this isn't a music shop, or concert. It is a restaurant! Food, food is what you want to know about!
What you want when you eat at a restaurant is to have food you've never experienced at home, or would never try to cook in your home kitchen. The gang here, well they definitely delivered that in spades!
My family and I went to celebrate mums 65th birthday, this was mums choice, so we went there full of hope and happiness.
Mum loves the sliders at depot, so when we saw that they had a slider, safe to say we all dug in. The taste was nothing short of sublime! Soft shell crab marinated, a some form of pickled something, a mayo for creaminess and then micro coriander. This pre dinner snack was great!
We then had shared a starter each, descriptions of what we had are in my photos. But going back to what I said about trying something you wouldn't normally have at home. Amongst the wild mushrooms were these doughnuts, doughnuts don't belong with wild mushrooms, right? Well they do if the dough contained freeze dried mushroom powder done in house. That is some Heston Blumenthal shite right there!
My main course was probably my only letdown. Snapper probably my favourite fish, it was overcooked. It was dry and chewy. But that didn't matter because paired with it and probably something that saved then from losing a star was another clever food experience. Coconut cream braised leek. There it was, hidden underneath my snapper, leek that had taken on the sweetness of the coconut?!?!?! Never had I experienced a sweet leek. I had always used it for its oniony taste. It was completely transformed.
Finally dessert. The pumpkin spice custard was gorgeous! So smooth, it was only lifted even higher with the caramel & popcorn. Each individual part, not so good. Together.... Amazeballs as the kids say.
Top marks Oddettes. The biggest compliment is that mum would definitely go back. High praise indeed. You know what, I would probably go back too.