Otis Dining Hall review

Eating corridor? What's an eating lobby? Furthermore, how distinctive is it to an eatery, bar or bistro? Everything sounds a bit Hogwarts, on the off chance that you ask me. 

So I get to the newish Otis Dining Hall in Canberra, and see that it is, to be sure, a baronial eating corridor, by method for a wild west cantina. 


The temperament is set by some genuine wood framing, heaps of mirrors, expansive calfskin feasting seats, dim wooden floors, cowhide menus and a gigantic wooden bar that keeps running down one length of the room.

it's not what I was anticipating from the principal solo experience of previous Sage gourmet expert, Damian Brabender, however then, Canberra is brimming with shocks nowadays. 



There's splendid espresso (Ona, the Cupping Room); bread (A. Cook, Silo Bakery), bar activity (the delightful Bacaro, the loco Bar Rochford), and some tasteful fashioner lodgings (Hotel, QT and East Hotel). 


So while the stylistic theme may recommend you're there for dish hamburger and Yorkshire pud, Brabender and head cook Adam Wilson are more about contemporary French bistro works of art, for example, meat tartare with smoked eel, sesame and sago crisps, and creme caramel with whisky and smoked ocean salt.

A crisp, clean first course that consolidates resemble the other alike solid shapes of pink yellowfin fish and compacted watermelon ($19) resembles an IQ test for your taste buds. 

Another is of two long cigarillos of marinated wallaby came in salted vine leaves, cleaned with macadamia floss and joined by smoky little catches of consumed onion emulsion ($18). It's right away amiable; an Australiana steak tartare reminiscent of Dan Hunter's lean, grave style at Brae in Victoria. 


The innate show of every piece is underscored by balance, limitation and some dazzling flavor parities. Like a winter-is-coming confit pork cheek ($34) that is all greasy freshness and dissolving delicate quality on a sprinkle of dark black consumed

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