Moroccan food is extensively flavoured with spices such as cumin, aniseeds, tumeric, cinnamon, coriander, and paprika. What I love about the Moroccan cuisine is its lovely blend of textures and flavours... the unique contrast of sweet and savoury. Sumac Restaurant is spectacular in highlighting its cultural essence, from the dimmed lighting, to their fancy glass ornaments. The colourful mosaic tile design even extends to the toilets!
Each plate held a napkin which was wrapped tightly together with a bracelet of antique looking beads. And every time someone arrived, it was inevitable that they tried to squeeze their wrist into it.
Rennae and I shared the soft-shell crab which was so tasty! It was served with a salad of cucumber and coriander, and dressed in a mixture of lemon juice, garlic, cumin, saffron and peppers.
I had the duck as my main dish. The duck was coated with a coarse mixture of pistatios, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, macadamia nuts and sesame seeds, then panfried to a perfect pink, and the falafel cake was rich and crunchy. This was topped up with a sweet pilaf which was a heavenly marriage of figs and caramelised onion.
Although some did complain of the small portions, I thought my meal was splendid...
Sumac Restaurant
The Promenade, Harbourside
Darling Harbour
Phone: 9281 2700
Web: www.sumacrestaurant.com.au
Wow!
Looks yum!
I want to eat all of them!
:-)
Hey hun! Take me there, and you can shout me whatever you like ;-)
My friends and I went there last Sat night and it was very good. Although i was looking forward to the table settings and when we got there it was just a white tablecloth :(
Hi Susan... it must have been one of those busy days where they don't bother with the fancy stuff! Such a pity though.