Marque Restaurant
Editorial
A meal at Marque is akin to seeing your first painting by Van Gough. It is a sensory journey through concepts, colours and textures that leaves you feeling that magic exists in the world and can be bought in eight courses for a small fortune. In decor Marque is a moody, dimly-lit restaurant that makes good use of neutral and dark tones, mirrors, veil-like curtains and warm light. But although it is tres chic you don’t come for the decor. You come for the food. On this front Marque excels with thrilling, edge-of-your-seat French cuisine that astounds with every bite.
If you are going for the first time and want to embrace the experience, leave your large appetite at home, give the a la carte a miss and book in for a degustation dinner with matching wine (the vino has been paired to bring out new and surprising dimensions in the food, so if you can drink, you should do so). There isn’t enough writing room to do the food justice; in short it is beguiling, inspiring and core-shaking. Each course is complex – from the famous “chaud-froid” egg which provides diners with a spectacular contrast of temperature and sensation, to fleshy swimmer crab which comes with light almond gazpacho, sweet corn and avruga, to a smoky ribbon of potato infused with the flavour of smoked ham that plays with the concept of potato gratin...or at least the supermodel version. Each meal is also completely different from the next. Various flavours and textures roll across the palate in waves activating different sensations as they go – from puffy meringues infused with sourness to dense, fleshy cubes of tuna. Ladies and gentlemen this is the closest you’ll get to real magic so drink (or eat) it in.
Agnes Gajewska, February 2010
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