Flying Fish Restaurant
Editorial
The reputation of this award-winning restaurant is likely to precede your visit here. It is after all located at the end of the ultra trendy Jones Bay Wharf and has won several accolades. From its somewhat withdrawn position it enjoys unobstructed views of the Harbour. This lends the restaurant a distant feeling; a sensation that it is part of a bygone era and now overlooks the developing city. The decor helps to maintain this impression. Here older heritage-listed elements of the former warehouse – pipes, iron elements, windows, wooden staircases and so forth – are offset by stylish, modern design. An alfresco area boasts a cocktail bar, comfortable couches and low tables. The interior of the restaurant plays with intimacy through darker feature walls and glowing light features that resemble underwater life. Similar care has been taken with two private dining rooms – the Wine Room (named after walls filled with the restaurant’s collection) and the Arcadia Room.
The kitchens at Flying Fish are also remarkable – split into three (the hot, cold and pastry) they are completely open. I’ll let you work out what each one does, but will say they are the source of many a compliment. The menu at Flying Fish is predominantly seafood and falls into the modern Australian category, although executive chef and owner, Peter Kuruvita’s Sri Lankan heritage provides influence in dishes like the signature devilled prawn curry. Together with head chef Jodie Wallace, Kuruvita looks over a menu that travels from light bar snacks like oysters to sashimi and entrees like seared yellow fin tuna with ruby red grapefruit and sweet pork crackling, mains like seared flathead fillets with scampi, jamon Iberico and Jerusalem artichoke and desserts. It changes seasonally and offers an evolving eight-course degustation. The quality is extended to an extensive wine and cocktail list.
Agnes Gajewska, March 2010
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Sandra
December 17, 2008
Really disappointing!!! Way over priced and not very tasty...staff weren't overly great either
Barbara Greene
February 23, 2011
My big birthday surprise turned into a huge disappointment with the food overpriced and ordinary. Cant complain about the service as there wasnt any.
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