It was a last minute decision to go out to lunch the day before I was to fly to Bali and my sister and family were heading off to India. We hadn't been to Fremantle for a very long time but realised it would be packed as the world sailing championships were starting that Saturday.
We headed to east Fremantle to avoid the crowds and decided to find somewhere in George street. Years ago there had been a favorite restaurant of ours cafe Amadeus and we went to see what the new restaurant in its place was like. It was called Barque and the menu described plates of food with an Asian influence all designed to be shared. Decisions decisions what to choose. In the end we ordered two lots of the duck and shiitake mushroom spring rolls, spiced lamb sausage with mint riata, Chilli salt squid, Mekong fried chicken with whiskey caramel and fried potatoes one with and one without the schezuan pepper.
All the dishes were more than we expected. The combination of the flavours in the dishes along with the drizzles of sauce and garnishing of the salts had us all mmmmmming with every bite. We really wanted to lick the platters clean it all tasted so good. We got the impression that the place was new but we found the staff were well informed and attentive.
Our waiter made recommendations for us and was very happy to ask the kitchen to leave the schezuan pepper off the potato fries . Even the cocktail I tried had a delicious freshness that went well with the Asian theme of the menu. My only regret in our rushing to leave the house I had forgotten to grab the camera as these dishes were very worthy of putting on my blog. Never mind I do intend to return with camera to try some of their other dishes.
