Vanitas
Editorial
Luxury is a word which befits Vanitas well. Candles shine and marble glistens as guests are smoothly guided — never ushered — to their tables. A salad of tea-smoked duck to begin with? Or the Roquefort salad with quail? Everything on the menu epitomises fine dining in all its pomp and glory.
The setting, of course, doesn't hurt. Vanitas is the fine-dining flagship of the Gold Coast's Palazzo Versace, one of the most renowned restaurant resorts of the region. Look to the East, and your eyes fill with the blue-on-blue collision of summer skies with the shimmering Pacific Ocean. Or retire inside, and bathe in all the opulence you'd expect of a Versace-owned, fashion-themed resort - a favourite of celebrities and TV producers from around the world.
Then slip back into Vanitas, and wonder why you ever left. For mains there's boneless slow-cooked lamb shanks carved at your table to share between two, and served with mushroom and pea ragout. Salted cod with Champagne caviar sauce is a beautiful indulgence that every Versace guest should experience. Or why even choose when there's a degustation on offer? That way, all you have to do is wine, and dine, and talk away the long Pacific evenings, while wondering just how much luxury it's possible to take.
Aran Ward Sell, March 2011
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