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2022-12-16
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Ando is a Michelin⭐️ restaurant and one of the hardest restaurants to book in town. However, the food quality doesn’t worth the 2-month wait. We opted for the 8-course Experience Menu at $2488/person but should have chosen the cheaper option instead..🥂Welcoming dishesBeautifully presented and immediately grabbed our attention, here comes the seafood crackers and the burdock soup. Quite good in taste and was expecting a great dinner ahead.🥂Welcoming dishShowing us a huge box of caviar, our next we
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🥂Welcoming dishes
Beautifully presented and immediately grabbed our attention, here comes the seafood crackers and the burdock soup. Quite good in taste and was expecting a great dinner ahead.
🥂Welcoming dish
Showing us a huge box of caviar, our next welcoming dish was the beef tartare with umami added from the generous spoon of caviar, it’s very hard to go wrong.
🥂Hokkaido Scallop with Lemon Cream Sauce
Our first course features a few fresh and bouncy scallops and complemented with the lemon cream sauce. Very refreshing and was the best dish of the night.
🥂Cured Fish Selection
Our second course was some white hamachi seasoned in different sauces including red ginger, parsley & garlic, yuzu, olive and pickles respectively. The hamachi itself was fresh already but the seasonings didn’t act as a complement to it. It was so salty starting from the third piece and all those seasonings were an awkward match.
🥂Additional Course - Blue Lobster Tail Chawanmushi
The lobster itself was super flavourful and got along with the Japanese shimeji mushrooms. However, the soup itself was very salty that ruined the silky-textured egg beneath. All I could taste was salt only.
🥂Bread
Though the sun-dried tomatoes bread was very fluffy with a crispy exterior, I didn’t expect this to be a course as usually bread should be part of the welcoming dishes instead. Great pairing with the Hokkaido butter with tomato flavour and the Spanish olive oil that originated from a plant of a thousand years old.
🥂Sea Bass, Lily bulb, razor clam, yellow wine
Again, I don’t understand the sauce. Putting lily bulb and yellow wine sauce with chives together was such an awkward match. Also, the razor clams lost all its flavour as the sauce was too strong. The flesh of the sea bass was smooth and its crispy skin was nicely done but nothing special.
🥂Argentina Beef Tenderloin
Strongly recommended by the waiter, we paid extra for some black truffles on top. The aroma was nice but nothing so surprising. The sauce was again overwhelmingly salty that ruined the whole dish even though the texture of the beef tenderloin was good. The lemon confit was way too creamy for my liking. I’d rather have some simple mashed potatoes on the side.
🥂Caldoso Rice with Spanish Carabinero
Had high hope on this signature seafood rice but turned out to be not that good as the lobster soup was too salty again. Even though the texture of the rice and prawn was good, I was only drinking salt.
🥂Grapefruit Sorbet
With a very rich red tea flavour, finally there’s something not salty.
Grapefruit Sorbet
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🥂Hazelnut Cookie with Chocolate Cream
Rich in cream and not overly sweet, at least I’m happy with their dessert.
🥂Petite Four
I chose dark Chocolate, yuzu tart, matcha tart and Japanese strawberry. All were small bites and loved it so much.
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I think I only had no complaints on their desserts. For other starters and main desserts, they were either too salty or not so surprising. Their choice on ingredients were not that precious as well so I see no reason paying that much except for its Michelin fame.
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Overall rating: 4/10
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💰 8-course Experience Menu $2488/person
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