Marinated red miso cod with dehydrated parsnip chips, almond eggplant & roasted pumpkin puree. Besides being visually arresting, this was quite the marvelous-tasting main. Despite its angry exterior, the marinated cod was quite the soft-spoken gentleman, so feathery soft that it virtually dissolves in your mouth like oily granita on warm…
Wild-caught lingcod fillet from The Naked Finn – grilled and oven-baked, finished with sea salt and extra virgin olive oil. Neither a ling nor a cod, but while the meatier external layers of fish taste slightly manlier and tougher than you’d expect cod to, the heart of the fillet is…
Açorda de Bacalhau – bread “porridge” with cod, extra virgin olive oil, fish stock and coriander. Tastes like comforting rice porridge, but with random soft bread crust bits and the occasional whiff of fermentation which tease that you aren’t eating rice. The cod was fresh and chewy, but this Portuguese…
Atlantic cod fried meesua with kimchi purée, mirin and scallions. The noodles were a revelation – very wet, slightly spicy, and almost designed for appreciative slurping. I could just have the meesua and be majorly contented. Fish was pretty standard, and slightly salty. 4/5 Gastrosmiths 103 Beach Road Tan Quee…