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Dining at the Seven Sands Restaurant in The World Trade Club within Dubai's World Trade Centre is almost like dining in the sky. Raised 33 Floors above ground with glass window walls gives the best surround aerial view of the city and makes for a perfect wind down from a busy day. Take a glass of vino, enjoy a hearty steak and watch the sun set over the flat city into distant sand dunes.
Seven Sands cuisine is deliciously filling and rich in flavour. Meals arrive with large entree servings and balanced with small main courses, which is all you'll need to drown taste buds in each exquisite dish and feel satisfied at this fine establishment.
Recommended is the Pan seared Sea Bass on spinach, almond and broccoli risotto, topped with grapes and cherry tomato confit. I personally recommend the mouth watering Pappardelle al tartufo ravioli with mild pumpkin and parmesan veloute. And for dessert, any chocolate addicts will melt at the taste of Noir Grande Cru with 65% chocolate pudding; Grande Marnier infused liquid centre and tamarillo sorbet. Tastes as good as it sounds. The menu specialises in American steak grills, and if my non red meat choice for the evening is anything to go by, the steaks here would be delectable.
The eatery has only recently opened doors to the public; in 2008 dining was exclusive to World Trade Club Members, no exceptions. Intrigue in anything previously forbidden got my feet to the door, and I can report that satisfyingly, there still maintains a secret men's club feel to the place, so being a female, I feel like I'm in on some big man-secret when seated by the waiting bar. With masculine brown hues to the interior design, you can't help but want to sip a scotch and smoke a cigar in the separate bar lounge while waiting for guests to arrive, and glance up at the hanging moose head - no, that doesn't exist, but it really wouldn't feel out of place!
I'd suggest this dinner venue is great for anyone who might be intimidated by some of the younger, too-trendy eateries and fancy a delicious meal with surround city views and mature ambience. There's definitely an older crowd full of people winding down after a hard days work. Valet parking is available.
Australia's Sydney Harbour Captain Cook Cruise's offers a Sydney dining experience with a lot of pizzaz - sampling first class cuisine aboard a cruise liner! Circling Sydney's waterside by the light of day, under a starry sky or even as a dreamy sun sets over the waters, enjoy iconic sights of the most famous Harbour city as you tuck into a three-course Top Deck lunch cruise.
Gliding past the Sydney Opera House on the very boat reserved for the Pope's visit to Sydney and floating under the Harbour Bridge, The Sydney Harbour Cruise Top Deck a la carte three course menu is presented for your unforgettable dining experience. Lunch is served to you by friendly waiting staff adorned in mood-setting nautical attire and staff serve up the healthy and delectable cuisine with a smile. I recommend the salmon for main as this chunky and crisp, delicious fish accompanied by baked potatoes and tartar sauce will truly make your mouth water. Bookings are taken for lunch or dinner, with a romantic champagne package option. Alternatively, there is a bar if you prefer a spontaneous glass of bubbly once on board.
After food and drinks, head up to the top deck for some sunshine and a sensational view of the dazzling waters, boating life and city-scapes. The best location for happy snapping with you camera is from the top of the boat! When the cruise comes to an end, there are two drop-off points, the final stop is at a Circular Quay, where you also check in and board.
Recommended: Sydney Harbour Cruise by Captain Cook Cruises is a great way for tourists to see popular city icons, and as much of Sydney as they can in a short amount of time, upon dazzling waters and with elegant food! Also a great idea for locals looking for a special occasion meal - imagine what success a business lunch would bring against this backdrop!
Longrain Restaurant in Australia's Sydney is often referred to as Sydney's most famous Asian restaurant. Popping up in Sydney just over ten years ago, Longrain Restaurant serves tantalizing Thai and Chinese influenced food with delightful cocktail infusions, and is credited with the revival of the Caprioska stick drink.
Located in Sydney's downtown Surry Hills, where trendy creative's are known to work and socialize, Longrain Restaurant is a meeting hub for friends, partners and networkers. The contemporary eatery has been cleverly designed in a 110 year-old warehouse space - with a buzzing central open-plan kitchen, bar lounge to the left, and dining area to the right. All under one large open-plan roof, the dining area is one long table. Guests are seated next to strangers, which ultimately creates a lively, buzzing atmosphere, set to sultry sounds from the resident DJ- in fact, by popular demand - you can buy the Longrain CD should you wish to recreate the ambience at home.
The dining idea at Longrain is that you enjoy a cocktail in the Longrain lounge-bar before sitting down to eat. And if you do, I recommend snacking on smoked trout on betel leaf, before being escorted to the exciting shared dining table. This delightful starter snack, infuses sweet and sour flavours to the betel leaf mixtures; trout roe, ginger, smoked trout, lime juice, coriander, eshallots, and red chillies. Dear reader, take it from me: this equals heaven for your mouth, and eagerness from your belly for more.
Once seated at the dinner table, menus designed byExecutive Chef, Martin Boetz, are presented. Dishes served are designed to be shared, with approximately one main between four mouths, as per Asian tradition. Longrain Thai restaurant is all about balancing flavours, so plates will arrive with accompanying sauces and sides to do just that.
Waiting staff happily recommend wine to complement the spicy chilli flavours of Asian dishes. Two amazing concoctions must be recommended, Eggnet sidedish, and carmelised pork hock with chilli vinegar, where pork hocks are carmelised in a honey-like consistency. Not being a pork enthusiast, I was hesitant to try, but the dish came highly recommended to me... and I am now passing that recommendation on to you - a divine food indulgence. The eggnet dish comprises a beansprout salad inside an impressive cross-hatch egg netting. Prawn, beansprouts and cucumber relish complement a taste sensation of peanuts, chilli, mint, coriander, and coconut. Amazing.
Longrain Restaurant in Sydney makes for a thrilling atmosphere and a taste-bud treat, this restaurant is definitely an experience of the senses.
Modern Japanese cuisine with shochu or cocktails is a fine art at Tokonoma Japanese Restaurant and Bar in Surry Hills.
One of the only Sydneybars to serve Japan's native shochu-based drinks, the trendy and ambient Tokonoma Bar and Restaurantalso offers amazing Japanese-styleseafood.Here, a unique contemporary dining experience awaits you.
Tokonoma Bar and Restaurant is conveniently located amidst central Sydney in the trendy hub of downtown Surry Hills. This is where Sydney's beautiful people frequent for after-work drinks and weekend catch-ups - and with flattering low-lit gold tungsten lighting we're all beautiful people, darling! As the venue of choice for events by glossy magazines GQ and Vogue, local celeb spotting is possible. Aussie starlet Ruby Rose lists Tokonoma amongst her favourite eateries, and if Madonna came to Sydney, London's trendy Zuma would surely be in danger of second place on her business lunchtime list.
Sydney's Tokonoma Bar and Restaurantis definitely a dining nightspot of the times. Certain anonymity is granted with their trendy high booths so grab one if you can - then feel like you've reserved your own private dining room complete with a private bar. Enhancing your dining pleasure is smooth timber-lined decor, house DJ designed music, cocktails infused with fruits-of-the-world and, of course, beautiful waiting staff to help with your dining selection.
With divine cocktails, good food, and conversation flowing, the rest of the room is soon forgotten. For a more traditional buzzing atmosphere there is also a table dining area. Waiting staff are exceptionally fun and friendly, and impressively informed about the Japanese menu. The menu lists items from a selection of the bars within Tokonoma, and Toko, the sister bar and restaurant next door.
Drink: Very new to Sydney, and what Tokonoma proudly pours best in the city, is the native Japanese shochus and tonics. I'm talking antioxidant aplenty and no calories. Try the blood orange and honey tonic, otherwise known as pure heavenly liquid bliss on rocks of ice. Or for something fun from the bar, try a Rabuba martini with a divine infusion of rhubarb and passion fruit cocktail - your taste buds will thank you.
Eat: The Tokonoma dining menu highlights fine selections from the sushi bar, robata grill, the signature tasting menu, and outlines meat and seafood dishes aplenty.
Many Sydneysiders recommended I try the dish called ‘hiramasa no sashimi to karikari buta' which translates as ‘kingfish sashimi drenched in truffle oil, feathered with fine pork belly crackling, and baby shiso', which translates as ‘extremely worth trying'.
The Japanese miso marinated black cod is a favourite dish of mine, and Tokonoma's ‘hata no saikyo-miso yaki' certainly lived up to my hopeful expectations. Ever so blackened and perfectly crisp on top, the succulent flesh of white codfishmade my mouth water on sight alone.
A red meat selection called ‘Ami yaki ro-su niku no wafu sauce' is a great dish to try, presenting as petite cubes of juicy scotch fillet steak soaked in glorious wafu sauce and garnished with garlic crisps.
The dessert list shows creative twists on the usual offerings of brulee, pudding and fondant. How can one not try a pear and white chocolate spring roll accompanied with sesame brittle and pear sorbet? It's easily washed down with a fine dessert wine.