Wildfire Desserts
Thursday, January 29th, 2009
Every year for the Sydney Festival, I like to try one of the Fast Festival Feasts where you get a main course and a glass of wine for $25. This year, Wildfire, at the Overseas Passenger Terminal was the choice; where we had kingfish, with one scallop tortellini and romesco sauce. Great sauce, but sadly I think the fish had seen better days and was ready before our 6pm arrival. Nevermind, we moved onto dessert. A very interesting looking dessert menu, we decided upon the doughnut box, and the nougatine souffle, both $18. The donut box was in fact 6 mini donut holes, which come with 3 test tubes and pipettes of sauce – raspberry, white chocolate, and chocolate, which you squeeze and inject into the donuts! The donuts are covered in sugar and cinnamon and set in a pretty box with a shot glass of caramel and chocolate mousse. Not too sweet which was good.
The souffle was the chef’s choice and was a good balance of light and airy whilst actually having a bit of substance – usually I find souffles like eating a cloud of nothing. It came with a chocolate crackle type thing on top of an ice cream segment; and the same shot glass with a chocolate cigar in it. (more…)