Dan Watkinson
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Xerta Restaurant
We had a wonderful meal at xerta. The venue was pristine, with nice lighting and interior decoration.
We had the a la carte menu and started the meal with some lovely bread (you can choose from white bread, seed bread or nut bread) and olive oil. Then came the amuses bouches; my personal favourites were the spoon with octopus on it, and the spinach macaron. There were a multitude of flavours in the amuses bouches and it was a great start to the meal. Having only eaten at these kinds of restaurants a couple of times, I didn't realise that you get amuses bouches even if you don't get the tasting menu, so that was a nice surprise.
Alongside the amuses bouches the waiter gave us a brief backstory of the restaurant since its inception. Throughout the meal the staff were all friendly, with the waiter even cracking a couple of jokes. The only thing that I would have said could be improved with the service is that we had to wait quite a while for our dessert to arrive.
The duck and rice starter was very tasty, hearty and I enjoyed it; however once I had tasted the smoked eel ravioli which my girlfriend had, I was quite jealous and wished I had ordered it.
The wild boar main course was again very nice and had great flavours, but if you have it then don't get carried away with eating the cocoa soil as it is a bit overpowering. The seabass catch of the day was nice but probably not as good as the other dishes we had.
The delta trail dessert was a mixed bag; the chocolate and apricot mousses were great, the triangular white thing (I think some kind of cheesecake) was also good. The biscuit and the honey foam were less good.
We then had a surprise, as it was my birthday they brought out a little birthday cheesecake; it was very creamy and had some nice tangy fruit coulis on top.
The last thing we ate were the petit fours; the chocolate macaron was really nice, the other sweet was okay.
One thing I would say about all of the food was that it was immaculately presented, probably the best out of any restaurant I've ever been to.
Overall I would definitely recommend xerta.
We had the a la carte menu and started the meal with some lovely bread (you can choose from white bread, seed bread or nut bread) and olive oil. Then came the amuses bouches; my personal favourites were the spoon with octopus on it, and the spinach macaron. There were a multitude of flavours in the amuses bouches and it was a great start to the meal. Having only eaten at these kinds of restaurants a couple of times, I didn't realise that you get amuses bouches even if you don't get the tasting menu, so that was a nice surprise.
Alongside the amuses bouches the waiter gave us a brief backstory of the restaurant since its inception. Throughout the meal the staff were all friendly, with the waiter even cracking a couple of jokes. The only thing that I would have said could be improved with the service is that we had to wait quite a while for our dessert to arrive.
The duck and rice starter was very tasty, hearty and I enjoyed it; however once I had tasted the smoked eel ravioli which my girlfriend had, I was quite jealous and wished I had ordered it.
The wild boar main course was again very nice and had great flavours, but if you have it then don't get carried away with eating the cocoa soil as it is a bit overpowering. The seabass catch of the day was nice but probably not as good as the other dishes we had.
The delta trail dessert was a mixed bag; the chocolate and apricot mousses were great, the triangular white thing (I think some kind of cheesecake) was also good. The biscuit and the honey foam were less good.
We then had a surprise, as it was my birthday they brought out a little birthday cheesecake; it was very creamy and had some nice tangy fruit coulis on top.
The last thing we ate were the petit fours; the chocolate macaron was really nice, the other sweet was okay.
One thing I would say about all of the food was that it was immaculately presented, probably the best out of any restaurant I've ever been to.
Overall I would definitely recommend xerta.