Me and my partner come here every year. The food is so exciting and different, the service is spectacular and it is always a wonderful evening! Would also highly recommend the margarita with jalapeno! Very good!!!

As a single diner I was asked to move from the main seating area to a half lit unlaid table apart from the rest. The manager greeted me with the advice that they only serve sharing plates. Not helpful. I was hurried and felt most...unwelcome The dish I had was pleasant enough in flavour but slightly wet. Prawn dumplings lacking in any discernible prawn at all.More

This restaurant & bar is located at the small shopping area at Cooks Beach and as such there is no beach view to admire from your table. The bar has a contemporary look however there is also a garden courtyard at the rear which allows...for al fresco dining and on the evening we visited the latter is where most guests were seated, ourselves included. The menu is based on small sharing plates of food, similar in the style to a tapas bar with the difference being that the food is not Spanish. The dishes could instead be described as eclectic. The restaurant themselves describe the small plates as "Kaizen" dishes to differentiate from the idea of Spanish "tapas". There were a choice of around five or six each of meat, seafood and vegetable based dishes and you can mix and match to suit your tastes. We chose four plates to share - Herbed Gnocchi $18; Monk Fish $19; Ostrich Fillet $21; and Prawn Dumplings $18. Each plate was served separately in turn and our waiter provided a brief description of the ingredients before returning with the next offering as we finished the last - it all worked well in our experience (although it was a quiet night so the staff were not pressed). Our bottle of Saint Clair Cab/Merlot wine ($40) helped wash things down nicely. Each plate was a real mix of flavours which all worked well - in some cases unexpectedly so - and from that point of view it was a dining experience. The fish, the pasta and the prawn dishes were all delicious. The experience of trying ostrich for the first time in my case didn't go down as well (or at all) since I almost wore out my jaw chewing on a piece. Try as a I could I could not break it down and just kept chewing. My wife and I actually had a laugh about this so it didn't spoil the evening, on the contrary we made light of it. Never having eaten ostrich before I commented on this to the server when he collected the plate. He expressed some surprise as apparently many guests see the ostrich as a highlight dish of the restaurant so perhaps I was just unfortunate. For dessert we had a Dark Chocolate Cake ($14) and their "Howey" ($14) which from memory my wife described as resembling vanila slice. Both were good. Overall it's not the type of place where you're going to be presented with a plateful (although they do also offer pizza!). However we were entirely satisfied to share the smaller portion sizes of dishes with many different flavours and on the whole these worked well. Two courses and a bottle of wine in nice surroundings with pleasant service for $144/£71 seemed decent value for money. We visited in March 2020, prior to Covid-19 lockdown.More