Sriracha maple bacon, avocado and sourdough toast from Plonk. The bacon was like the wavy-haired nymph at the bar you knew was trouble when you walked in – chewy and an alluring BBQ powder-esque spicy at first, but eventually revealing itself to be insistently sticky and possessive. Elsewhere, the avocado…
Deconstructed lemon tart with fried shallot (!) ice cream from Plonk. The exhilaratingly tart lemon curd had a texture that’s best described as Malay kueh meets pudding, whilst elsewhere the fried shallots required careful portioning to ensure the entirety of the largely vanilla ice cream got the necessary fried fragrance…