Date attended: 19 October 2015 Style: All-Day Café and Restaurant Cuisine: European, Café What to look out for: Beautiful interior décor and their fragrant teas
“This is definitely the dessert for you if you’re into sour things and wanting that lemon punch-in-the-face zing.”
I frequently visit the Queen Victoria Building (QVB Sydney) and regularly walk past The Palace Tea Room. I would take a quick peek inside as I stride on by; it's beautiful inside and always say to myself that I would love to try their afternoon tea. However this quickly becomes an afterthought as I get distracted by pre-planning somewhere else to eat or have prior commitments – like shopping. But today - today was the day where I made a booking to finally check The Palace out and try their Sugar Rush dish for the 2015 Good Food Month.
Swiss Meringue and Pistachio Leaves; Chocolate, Sherbet and Nut Soil, Lemon Curd and White Chocolate Mousse
Fancy dessert is fancy, and incomplete without micro-herbs!
Check out that nut soil!
Lemon Curd hiding beneath the Nut Soil
Teaware with dessert
What Lexxie Says: It was a such a sight to see when the wait staff came around to our table and put their dish in front of us. When we heard Chocolate Soil was on the menu, we felt quite excited at the prospect of ‘digging’ our way through and around the pot. As we kept digging, lots of different elements appeared and just complimented each other. With every bite, you could feel the zing of the sherbet, the crunch of the nut soil, the sharpness of the lemon curd and the subtle mellowness of the white chocolate mousse that just tied it all together. The swiss meringue and pistachio leaves gave it an extra element to the dish, especially if you crunched it up and mixed it in with the soil like I did. Oh, and a quick shout out to the lemon sponge hiding among the soil - another layer of texture to the dish.
This may, or may not bother you, but I felt there was too much lemon curd in it. I'm not a sour/citrus type of person, so I would’ve preferred less of the lemon curd. But this is definitely the dessert for you if you’re into sour things and wanting that lemon punch-in-the-face zing.
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