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Name: Bécasse
Address: 204 Clar­ence Street, Sydney, NSW 2000
Phone: (02) 9283 3440
Type: Res­taur­ant
Cuisine: French/​European
Open­ing hours: 12:00 pm-2:30 pm (lunch, Monday-​​Friday); 6:00 pm-10:30 pm (din­ner, Monday-​​Saturday)
Price: $120 (degust­a­tion); $27 and $45 (à la carte entrée and main respectively)

There is no doubt that Bécasse is one of the stars of Sydney fine din­ing, almost bey­ond review for an ama­teur as myself. Famil­iar and unfa­mil­iar ingredi­ents are brought together in every dish with immacu­late exe­cu­tion and present­a­tion. This is food that is as beau­ti­ful to look at as it is beau­ti­ful to savour. I must say that some of the meat­ier dishes may come across as being a little under­whelm­ing, but this is purely because of the heav­en­li­ness of some of the other dishes; dessert here is some­thing you can’t have enough of! As for ambi­ence, Bécasse is a place well-​​suited any time a little bit of soph­ist­ic­a­tion is in order. From the eleg­ant but not too pre­ten­tious din­ing room, you can see the chefs deftly apply­ing their mas­ter­ful craft, as you go through this culin­ary journey.

You can prob­ably tell from my descrip­tion that we had the degust­a­tion, although they also have a decent à la carte selec­tion. I think I will let the pho­tos speak for them­selves, for which many thanks are due to Daniel Tse.

Amuse bouche

Salad of heir­loom tomato

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