Lume - restaurant blog

Here comes another restaurant blog, this time is at the recent build Lume. The places was quite popular with the dishes that we had to book almost a month in advance. Lume is located at that one way street to Craine st apparently.

 I love the design of the place, from the outside it looks like any other residential houses, but once you step in, its modern and industrial.

Our meal was the 15 courses meal, which was supposed to replicate meals from breakfast to dessert.

Breakfast - Eel on burnt barley crumpet, eel infused honey and eel butter

Raw taro and calamari entrails warmed with saltbush butter

Scallop dressed with Jamon dashi, honeydrew and roe

Emu tart with warm jersey milk and rose geranium

Pearl on the ocean floor

 Flinders island lamb perfumed with cherry wood, rhubarb, hibiscus and rose

 Jerusalem artichoke, La Sirene Praline, caramelised apple and chamomile

Sea corn and dairy cow

Barbequed ice with raw yabby, shiitake and lemon aspen

Dry aged duck, presevered summer fruit and elderflower

 Cauliflower cheese with a pastry smoked over pear wood

Lamb blood ganache rolled in maple oats, native apple jam and riberry pepper

 Salted liquorice stick, violets and lime

Jerusalem artichoke, La sirene Praline, caramelised apple and chamomile but now in dessert form, with beer ice cream

and finale was a show of the chocolate cacao

Cacao pod from Maralumi with notes of tobacco, green banana and currents

and once opened on the inside

The ice cream was really yummy, it was like a nitrogen made ice cream where its sticky and creamy.

This was the menu that we received at the end of the meal that had all the name of the dishes we had.

Before we left, we were also introduced to the chiefs that prepared our meals. And I was allow to take a couple shots of them at work creating their master pieces.

But the food was only 3.5 out 5 at best with specifically the first item the Crumpet,the liquorice stick and the finale of the cacao pods being the most memorable ones. Others were sometimes over the top in flavours, perhaps it just not my taste or sometimes infused with flavours that was exotic and bland.

In the end, it was an experience to have to try out food that would normally be disregard.  Overall the experience was nice, the places was nicely designed and staffs were very friendly and knew exactly what we were being served once we asked.